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Unit 2 of Geography

Question 1 of 30

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Check all 7 landform regions of Canada

Select one or more of the following:

  • Western Cordillera

  • Superior Plains

  • St. Lawerence Lowlands

  • Hudson Bay-Arctic lowlands

  • Western Mountains

  • Appalachians

  • Canadian Shield

  • interior plains

  • The innuitian mountains

  • Highland plateaus

Explanation

Question 2 of 30

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Alpine glaciers are found in mountainous regions

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 3 of 30

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What are the 3 basic ocean currents?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Labrador Current from the East Coast

  • Alaskan Current from the West Coast

  • Nova Scotia Current from the East Coast

  • Gulf Stream Current from the Gulf of Mexico

  • Antarctic Current from Antarctica

Explanation

Question 4 of 30

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

LOWER-NW, which is an acronym for a factors that affect climate, stands for , , , , and .

Explanation

Question 5 of 30

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As you increase in elevation, you decrease in temperature.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 6 of 30

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Continental glaciers cover large land masses.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 7 of 30

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Continental climates develop under the influence of an ocean or a large body of water.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 8 of 30

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Maritime climates have:

Select one of the following:

  • high temperature range (>25 degrees) and low precipitation

  • low temperature range (<25 degrees) and high precipitation

  • moderate temperatures and an equal distribution of precipitation

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 9 of 30

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

The three types of precipitation are , , and .

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Question 10 of 30

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What is climate?

Select one of the following:

  • Where weather takes place

  • rain, hail, snow, or freezing rain

  • the day to day characteristics of weather which include wind direction, humidity, temperatures, pressure, etc.

  • long term patterns of the day to day characteristics such as wind direction, humidity, temperatures, pressure, etc.

Explanation

Question 11 of 30

1

in a high pressure atmosphere, the sky is dark and cloudy.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 30

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Where can orographic (relief) precipitation be found in Canada?

Select one of the following:

  • Great Lakes- St. Lawerence Lowlands

  • Western Cordillera

  • Hudson Bay- Arctic lowlands

  • Interior plains

Explanation

Question 13 of 30

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What is frontal precipitation?

Select one of the following:

  • The meeting of cold and warm air where warm air is forced to rise and thunderstorms occur

  • Where really hot air rises into spontaneous vertical drafts

  • When moist air from the ocean condenses and drops onto one side of a mountain and creates a rainshadow on the other side

Explanation

Question 14 of 30

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What is the polar front jet stream?

Select one of the following:

  • An ocean current that moves moisture into an area

  • Fast moving air that divides cold and warm air

  • A certain area in which airplanes travel to the Arctic

Explanation

Question 15 of 30

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What are the 4 main components of soil?

Select one or more of the following:

  • humus (organic materials)

  • dead animal

  • minerals

  • sunshine

  • air

  • carbon monoxide

  • moisture/water

Explanation

Question 16 of 30

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What is permafrost?

Select one of the following:

  • permanently frozen soil that does not thaw out in the summer

  • a layer of thin ice that covers the Great Lakes in the winter

  • The top layer of snow

  • A type of ice

Explanation

Question 17 of 30

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A tree line is a boundary between the Tundra and the Boreal Forest. North of this line, it is too cold for trees to grow.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 30

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A deciduous tree is a tree that stays green all year and does not have leaves that fall off

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 30

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What is natural vegetation?

Select one of the following:

  • Vegetables grown in a garden without the use of GMOs

  • Types of plants that would grow in an area without human interference

  • Plants grown without the use of humus

Explanation

Question 20 of 30

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What are the 4 pieces of proof that Alfred Wegener used to prove his theory about Pangea and its continental drift?

Select one or more of the following:

  • The same traditions were found on continents in similarity

  • South America and Africa aligned together perfectly like a "jigsaw fit"

  • ice sheets similar in characteristics were found on continents that could have possibly been closer to the south pole at one point

  • New Zealand and Mexico fit together perfectly like a "jigsaw fit"

  • Similar fossils of species were found on different continents

  • There were mountains similar in structure found on different continents.

  • All the continents were similar in size and age at the time

Explanation

Question 21 of 30

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What is the theory about plate tectonics?

Select one or more of the following:

  • convection within the earth caused plates underneath the earth's mantle to move

  • volcanoes erupted and developed land

  • earth's moving plates stopped moving

Explanation

Question 22 of 30

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What are the 2 main types of rock found in the Canadian Shield?

Select one or more of the following:

  • igneous

  • sedimentary

  • sediments

  • magma

  • metamorphic

Explanation

Question 23 of 30

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After the condensation level begins, the rate of temperature dropping in a rising air mass in an elevated area is:

Select one of the following:

  • 1° C/100m

  • 0.8°C/100m

  • 0.6°C/1000m

  • 0.6°C/100m

Explanation

Question 24 of 30

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Prevailing winds are winds that are commonly found in an area. What is the name of Canada's prevailing winds?

Select one of the following:

  • Easterlies

  • Westerlies

  • Polar Easterlies

  • Polar jet stream

Explanation

Question 25 of 30

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

Igneous rock, Sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock can all ( melt, cool, compress, erode, get pressured or heated ) into magma.

Explanation

Question 26 of 30

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Sedimentary rock, igneous rock, and metamorphic rock can all into sediments.

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    compress
    melt
    cool
    erode
    get heated/pressured

Explanation

Question 27 of 30

1

What temperature represents the growing season?

Select one of the following:

  • 3°C

  • 5.6°C

  • 10°C

  • 8.3°C

Explanation

Question 28 of 30

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How do I calculate average yearly temperature?

Select one of the following:

  • multiply all temps. together then subtract 12

  • add all temps. together then divide by 12

  • add all temps. together then subtract 12

  • divide 12 by the total annual temperature

Explanation

Question 29 of 30

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Leaching is a continual downward movement of water through soil which dissolves the chemical nutrients out of the soil. It causes poor soil and happens in wet climates.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 30

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calcification happens in dry climates and is the upwards movement of water that happens because of evaporation at the soil surface. It leaves behind minerals and good, thick soil.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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