German scientist responsible for the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
The landform region that we currently live in.
What is the Great Lakes & St.Lawrence Lowlands
100
Forming over land, wind speeds can get as high as 322 km/h
What is a tornado?
100
Folding, Faulting, Volcanoes and Hot spots are all examples.
What is Things that Build Up the Earth?
100
Temperature, precipitation, humidity, pressure, wind conditions & clouds are used to describe.
What is Weather?
200
Jigsaw puzzle piece fit, glaciers on warm continents, fossils on continents and similar mountain chains.
What is pieces of evidence for Continental Drift.
200
The city of Calgary is found here.
What is the Interior Plains?
200
Violent wind, rain and waves are devastating effects.
What is a hurricane?
200
The formation of the Hawaiian Islands are an example.
What is Hot Spots (Volcanoes)
200
Using bars and lines, I can describe the climate for a given city.
What is a Climate Graph?
300
Hot rock rises and cool rock sinks in an endless cycle.
What is convection currents?
300
Also known as the "storehouse of metallic minerals" because of all the rocks and minerals found here.
What is the Canadian Shield?
300
When 2 plates collide together and one gets sucked under the other. A megathrust EQ, like what hit Canada 300 years ago, can be the result.
What is a Subduction Zone?
300
Weathering, Erosion and Glaciers are examples.
What is Forces that Break Down the Land.
300
As air rises, it expands losing height and becomes cooler. Losing one degree Celsius for every 100 m it rises until condensation occurs.
What is Elevation?
400
Mountains form when these plates crash into one another.
What is converging boundaries?
400
Continental glaciation is responsible for turning these mountains into low rugged hills and plateaus.
What is Appalachian Region?
400
Public education, EQ & Tsunami drills, and reinforced buildings are examples.
What is how to prepare for a megathrust EQ?
400
The rate of accumulation is greater than the rate of melting.
What is how glaciers get bigger?
400
Low temperature range and a lot of precipitation.
What is a Maritime Climate?
500
Tectonic plates can get stuck and cause a strain on the ground. This strain can become so great that the rocks give way by the fault lines breaking. A tsunami is a deadly after affect.
What is an Earthquake?
500
Ice covered mountains and permanent snow, this region is the least populated area of Canada.
What is Innuitian Mountains?
500
Tsunami would be unlikely because Victoria Island would take majority of the blow. By the time waves reached, they would only be 1.6 m high.
What is Vancouver's Tsunami risk?
500
Glaciers move across the land, leaving grooves or scratch marks in the land.
What is Striations?
500
The sun warms the air above the earth, which causes the warm air to rise, eventually creating clouds and precipitation.