Check all 7 landform regions of Canada
Western Cordillera
Superior Plains
St. Lawerence Lowlands
Hudson Bay-Arctic lowlands
Western Mountains
Appalachians
Canadian Shield
interior plains
The innuitian mountains
Highland plateaus
Alpine glaciers are found in mountainous regions
What are the 3 basic ocean currents?
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
LOWER-NW, which is an acronym for a factors that affect climate, stands for , , , , and .
As you increase in elevation, you decrease in temperature.
Continental glaciers cover large land masses.
Continental climates develop under the influence of an ocean or a large body of water.
Maritime climates have:
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
The three types of precipitation are , , and .
What is climate?
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.
in a high pressure atmosphere, the sky is dark and cloudy.
Where can orographic (relief) precipitation be found in Canada?
Great Lakes- St. Lawerence Lowlands
Hudson Bay- Arctic lowlands
Interior plains
What is frontal precipitation?
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
What is the polar front jet stream?
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
What are the 4 main components of soil?
humus (organic materials)
dead animal
minerals
sunshine
air
carbon monoxide
moisture/water
What is permafrost?
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
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.
A deciduous tree is a tree that stays green all year and does not have leaves that fall off
What is natural vegetation?
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
What are the 4 pieces of proof that Alfred Wegener used to prove his theory about Pangea and its continental drift?
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
What is the theory about plate tectonics?
convection within the earth caused plates underneath the earth's mantle to move
volcanoes erupted and developed land
earth's moving plates stopped moving
What are the 2 main types of rock found in the Canadian Shield?
igneous
sedimentary
sediments
magma
metamorphic
After the condensation level begins, the rate of temperature dropping in a rising air mass in an elevated area is:
1° C/100m
0.8°C/100m
0.6°C/1000m
0.6°C/100m
Prevailing winds are winds that are commonly found in an area. What is the name of Canada's prevailing winds?
Easterlies
Westerlies
Polar Easterlies
Polar jet stream
Igneous rock, Sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock can all melt cool compress erode get pressured or heated( melt, cool, compress, erode, get pressured or heated ) into magma.
Sedimentary rock, igneous rock, and metamorphic rock can all ❌ into sediments.
What temperature represents the growing season?
3°C
5.6°C
10°C
8.3°C
How do I calculate average yearly temperature?
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
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.
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.
