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Earth's Structure/Rock Cycle
Landforms
Climate
Soils/Vegetation
Ecozones
100
Before being subjected to heat, pressure and fluids this rock could have been sedimentary or igneous.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
The largest landform region in Canada (by area).
What is the Canadian Shield?
100
The temperature range of a climate station that has a high of 18 degrees Celsius and a low of -5 degrees Celsius.
What is 23 degrees Celcius? (Bonus: Is this likely from a maritime or continental climate.)
100
Soils that occur in dry areas.
What are calcified soils? (Bonus: What is their topsoil like?)
100
The dominant vegetation in the Prairies.
What are grasses?
200
When mountains age they get shorter because of this process.
What is weathering, erosion and depositioin? (W.E.D.)
200
The landform region with great prairie soils.
What is the interior plains?
200
Air masses that are warmer and wetter.
What are Maritime Tropical air masses?
200
A region with predominantly coniferous forest.
What is the Boreal and Taiga Forest region?
200
Landform in the Arctic Cordillera.
What are mountains? (Double points if they said Innuittion Mountains)
300
You would be most likely to find metallic minerals with this rock type.
What is igneous rock?
300
Landform regions where you are likely to find fossil fuels.
What are the Interior Plains, Western Cordillera, Appalacians, Innuitions, Hudson Bay and Arcitc Lowlands, and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. (ie. In every landform region except the Canadian Shield.)
300
Occurs when warm wet air rises to due point, condenses into clouds and then gets to heavy to stay airborn.
What is precipitation? (Bonus: Compare frontal precipitation to relief precipitation. Remember a good comparison has similarities and differences.)
300
This causes soils to form differently in different areas of Canada.
What is the climate (balance between precipitation and evaporation)?
300
Ecozones with cool wet climates.
What are all the ecozones with taiga or boreal in their names?
400
The part of the Earth including the solid bits of the Earht's upper mantle and the crust. (ie. the tectonic plates)
What is the lithosphere?
400
Canada's highlands formed from plate tectonic activity (folding and faulting).
What are the Western Cordillera, Innutions, and the Appalachians?
400
L.O.W.R.E.N
What are the factors that affect climate? (For full points you must name them.)
400
Areas where you can find both calcified and leached soils in close proximity.
What are cordilleran (mountainous) areas, especially in the Western Cordillera?
400
The ecozone we live in.
What is the Mixedwood plains?
500
At this plate boundary trenches, mountains and volcanoes form.
What is a subduction zone?
500
Regions formed from the long slow W.E.D. of neighbouring landforms.
What are the Hudson Bay and Arctic Lowlands, the Interior Plains, and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands.
500
The reason our climate is much different than other continental areas.
What is nearness to big bodies of water? (Bonus: Explain what the Great Lakes do to our climate.)
500
A term used to explain the slow change over from one dominant vegetation to another.
What is a transition zone?
500
Ecozones with little protected space or national parks.
What are the Prairies and the Mixedwood Plains? (Bonus: Why don't they have very much protected space?)