Shifting Sands & Moving Mountains
He was the German scientist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
These are the three main types of rocks found in the Rock Cycle.
What are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
In the acronym LOWERN, the "L" stands for this factor, which explains why it's colder at the North Pole than the Equator.
What is Latitude?
This is Canada’s largest and oldest landform region, known for its thin soil and igneous rock.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This natural hazard is most likely to occur along the West Coast of Canada due to its proximity to plate boundaries.
What is an Earthquake or a tsunami?
This supercontinent existed about 300 million years ago before the plates began to drift apart.
What is Pangea?
This term describes the "wearing down" of the earth's surface by wind, water, or ice.
What is Weathering?
This type of graph displays both the average monthly temperature and the total monthly precipitation for a specific city.
What is a Climate Graph?
This region in Western Canada is known for its flat land and is the "breadbasket" of the country.
What are the Interior Plains?
In The Biggest Little Farm, the farmers had to focus on building up this "layer" of the earth to ensure plants could grow.
What is Topsoil?
This specific type of plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past one another, often causing earthquakes.
What is a Transform boundary?
This teardrop-shaped hill was formed by glaciers and points in the direction the ice was moving.
What is a Drumlin?
If you live near a large body of water, you likely have a "Maritime" climate, meaning your temperature range is this.
What is Small/Moderate?
These are the youngest, highest mountains in Canada, located on the West Coast.
What are the Western Cordillera?
This term describes the variety of life in an ecosystem, which the farmers in the film tried to increase to keep pests away.
What is Biodiversity?
This horseshoe-shaped zone in the Pacific Ocean is home to the majority of Earth’s volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This "building up" process occurs when a glacier melts and leaves behind piles of rocks and soil called moraines.
What is Deposition?
These are the two different types of trees; one loses its leaves in the winter, while the other has needles and stays green.
What are Deciduous and Coniferous?
This landform region is where the majority of Canada’s population lives due to its fertile soil and warmer climate.
What are the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands?
If a region has high precipitation and warm temperatures, you can expect this type of "heavy" vegetation to grow there.
What is Forest/Deciduous Forest?
While Wegener had the "Continental Drift" theory, this modern theory explained how the plates actually moved via convection currents.
What is Plate Tectonics?
Formed by heat and pressure, this rock type is commonly found in the Canadian Shield, Canada's largest landform region.
What is Metamorphic rock?
On a climate graph, a "growing season" is defined as any month where the temperature is above this many degrees Celsius.
What is 5°C?
This is the only landform region in Canada that is primarily made up of permafrost and tundra vegetation.
What is the Innuitian Mountains or Arctic Lowlands?
This specific natural hazard often occurs in the Interior Plains during the summer due to dry air and flat land.
What is a Tornado or Drought?