Rocks
This Type of Rock is Formed from the Accumulation of Sediments Which can Include Minerals, Organic Matter, and fragments of Other Rocks.
What is a Sedimentary Rock?
Convergent, Transforming and Divergent
What are the 3 Types of Tectonic Plates?
This term refers to the continuous movement of water within the earth and atmosphere.
What is the Water Cycle?
A Region Known for its Ancient Rock Formations and Rich Mineral Resources.
What is the Canadian Shield?
A long-term average of weather conditions in a particular area over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
A Rock Formed when Magma Cools and Solidifies Beneath the Earths Surface.
What is an intrusive Igneous Rock?
Convergent Plates
What type of tectonic plate move toward each other?
The Process Describes Water from the Atmosphere back to Earth's Surface.
What is Precipitation?
A Land form that Many People use the Term ‘Rocky Mountains' to describe, and is made of igneous and metamorphic rock and are the direct result of plate tectonics.
What is the WESTERN CORDILLERA?
Rubbing of two plates causing a massive force of energy.
What is an Earthquake?
A naturally occurring element or inorganic compound with an ordered internal structure
What is a Mineral?
Plates Found in East Africa and The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What are Divergent Plates?
The First Step of the Water Cycle that describes the movement of water from the surface of the earth into the atmosphere.
This region extends from the US border in the south to the Arctic Ocean. It makes up the southern parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, almost all of Alberta and the western part of the Northwest Territories.
What is The Interior Plains?
Magma that comes out from under the earth's surface.
What is Lava?
Cooling of the lava, Erosion, Sand compaction, Deformation
How are Rocks Formed?
Plates That Move Next to Each Other and Many Can be Located on the Ocean Floor.
What are Transforming Plates?
The Process Involves Water Vapor Cooling and Changing Back into Liquid Water, Often forming Clouds.
What is Condensation?
A Land form that is Made up of a Series of Islands and have a Gently Rolling Landscape. The Inuit Peoples of Canada Primarily Live in this Area.
What is the Arctic Lowlands?
This Geological Feature is Formed by the Eruption of Molten Rock, Ash, and Gases from Beneath the Earth's Crust.
What is a Volcano?
A Type of Rock that is Formed by Heat and Pressure, Resulting in New Mineral Compositions and structures.
What is a Metamorphic Rock?
The Mantle
Which Layer of the Earth do the Tectonic Plates Float?
This Process releases water vapor from plants into the atmosphere.
What is Transpiration?
This Region the Swampy Areas are Called Muskeg – the Water is Often Stagnant. Several Rivers Wind Through the Area. The Vegetation is Mostly Bushes and Isolated Trees.
What is The Hudson Bay Lowlands?
A Type of Cilmate that is charachterized by Mild Tempuratures and High Humidity, Influcended by Proximity to Oceans or Large Bodies of Water.
What is Maritime Climate?