Unit 2 - Physical Connections

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A quiz for Unit 2. When you have answered all of the questions you need to submit. Once you see your mark select the button that says REVIEW QUIZ. This shows you all of the questions, gives you the correct answer and your answer.
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Questão 1

Questão
The red dots on the map represent:
Responda
  • Locations of earthquakes and volcanoes.
  • International ocean boundaries.
  • Places where migratory birds rest.
  • Biodiversity Hot Spots.

Questão 2

Questão
Earthquakes that occur under the water are called:
Responda
  • tsunami
  • under water earthquakes
  • kawasaki
  • disasters

Questão 3

Questão
About how many Earthquakes can be felt every year?
Responda
  • 30,000
  • 3,000
  • 300,000
  • 300

Questão 4

Questão
Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory?
Responda
  • Alfred Wegener
  • Tuzo Wilson
  • Sir Samford Flemming
  • Albert Einstein

Questão 5

Questão
Alfred Wegener had four proofs for his Continental Drift Theory. Which of the following is not one of his proofs?
Responda
  • That the tectonic plates moved due to convection currents in the Earth.
  • The jigsaw fit between South America and Africa
  • Fossils of the same plants and animals on both continents
  • There are mountains of similar age and structure in North America and Europe.
  • Ice covered places that are now warm. They must have been somewhere else when it happened.

Questão 6

Questão
What year did Alfred Wegener propose his Continental Drift Theory?
Responda
  • 1915
  • 1815
  • 1715
  • 1851

Questão 7

Questão
In the 1960s Canadian J. Tuzo Wilson proposed which theory?
Responda
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Continental Drift
  • Pangaea Theory
  • Rock Cycle

Questão 8

Questão
Why was Wegener's Continental Drift Theory not accepted?
Responda
  • No one knew of any force that was powerful enough to move continents.
  • There was no evidence for it.
  • Pangaea did not exist.
  • No-one knew about it.

Questão 9

Questão
Which statement about Plate Tectonics is incorrect?
Responda
  • Earth’s outer shell is made up of about 20 plates.
  • Most plates contain a continent and an ocean.
  • The plates float on a layer of hot rock hundreds of kilometers below the surface.
  • The plates each move about a kilometer a year.

Questão 10

Questão
What causes the tectonic plates to move?
Responda
  • Convection currents.
  • Oceanic Plate
  • Continental Plate
  • The continents float in the ocean.

Questão 11

Questão
What causes land to be built up?
Responda
  • Plate tectonics
  • Wind
  • Erosion
  • Water

Questão 12

Questão
What causes elevated areas on Earth to be worn down?
Responda
  • Erosion
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Volcanoes
  • Earthquakes

Questão 13

Questão
What are the two main causes of erosion?
Responda
  • wind and water
  • volcanoes and earthquakes
  • wind and volcanoes
  • water and earthquakes

Questão 14

Questão
Place the main Geologic Eras in the correct order - from oldest to newest.
Responda
  • Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
  • Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Precambrian
  • Precambrian, Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic
  • Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Precambrian, Mesozoic

Questão 15

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a type of rock?
Responda
  • Igneous
  • Metamorphic
  • Sedimentary
  • Volcanic

Questão 16

Questão
Igneous rock is formed when:
Responda
  • magma cools
  • sediment is compacted and cemented
  • heat and pressure is applied
  • weathering and erosion

Questão 17

Questão
Metamorphic rock is formed when
Responda
  • rock is exposed to heat and pressure
  • magma cools
  • weathering and erosion
  • compaction and cementation

Questão 18

Questão
Sedimentary Rock is formed when
Responda
  • Magma cools
  • Rock is exposed to heat and pressure
  • Sediments experience compaction and cementation
  • Wind and erosion

Questão 19

Questão
What landform is Oakville located in?
Responda
  • Innuitian Mountains
  • Western Cordillera
  • Appalachians
  • Great-Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

Questão 20

Questão
What landform is Temagami, and most of Ontario and Quebec found in?
Responda
  • Western Cordillera
  • Interior Plains
  • Canadian Shield
  • Great-Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

Questão 21

Questão
What landform is British Columbia found in?
Responda
  • Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands
  • Canadian Shield
  • Appalachians
  • Western Cordillera

Questão 22

Questão
Which landform would be best for Farming?
Responda
  • Innuitian Mountains
  • Western Cordillera
  • Canadian Shield
  • Great-Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

Questão 23

Questão
Which landform would be best for fishing?
Responda
  • Appalachians
  • Metallic Minerals Canadian Shield
  • Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands
  • Interior Plains

Questão 24

Questão
Which landform would be best for Mining Metallic Minerals?
Responda
  • Innuitian Mountains
  • Canadian Shield
  • Interior Plains
  • Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands

Questão 25

Questão
During the Last Ice Age, Canada was almost completely covered by glaciers.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 26

Questão
Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding glacier formation?
Responda
  • Form when the snow that falls in the winter does not completely melt in the summer.
  • Over thousands of years, the snow becomes very thick.
  • The weight of the snow turns the bottom layers to ice.
  • The cooling of magma makes glaciers larger.

Questão 27

Questão
How do continental glaciers move?
Responda
  • As the snow accumulates, the glaciers move slowly across the landscape.
  • As the snow melts every year, they move forward.
  • They only move when it is snowing.
  • Continental glaciers are too large to move.

Questão 28

Questão
How do Alpine glaciers move?
Responda
  • Move down valleys from high elevations to low elevations under the force of gravity.
  • They move up mountains due to the large amount of ice and snow.
  • They do not move because they are too heavy.
  • They flatten all mountains, then move like continental glaciers.

Questão 29

Questão
Which of the following statements about how Alpine glaciers shape the land is incorrect?
Responda
  • Sharpen the upper portions of the mountains and give them a rugged appearance.
  • When they move down valleys, they scrape away the valley walls to produce broad U-shaped valleys
  • They can change the rivers running in the area.
  • They flatten all mountains to make the land flat when they melt.

Questão 30

Questão
How do Continental Glaciers shape the land?
Responda
  • Give the landscape a smoother appearance by eroding higher points on the land and filling in lower areas with the eroded material.
  • Sharpen the upper portions of the mountains and give them a rugged appearance.
  • When they move down valleys, they scrape away the valley walls to produce broad U-shaped valleys.
  • They do not shape the land.

Questão 31

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a factor that affects climate?
Responda
  • Latitude
  • Ocean Currents
  • Wind and Air Masses
  • Temperature

Questão 32

Questão
Which Climate Factor is illustrated in the picture?
Responda
  • Latitude
  • Wind and Air Masses
  • Near Water
  • Relief

Questão 33

Questão
Which of the following statements about Ocean Currents is INCORRECT?
Responda
  • Ocean currents carry warm or cool temperatures to different places.
  • Currents originating near the equator are warm, near the poles, cool.
  • The air above the current takes the temperature of the water.
  • The air above the ocean is usually very dry.

Questão 34

Questão
Which of the following statements about Wind and Air Masses is INCORRECT?
Responda
  • Air takes the climatic conditions where it was formed.
  • Moist over water, dry over land.
  • Cool in cold areas, warm in warm areas.
  • Air and Wind Masses stay stationary all of the time.

Questão 35

Questão
What causes Prevailing Winds?
Responda
  • The rotation of the Earth, along with high and low pressure areas cause air to move in well-established patterns
  • Ocean currents
  • The Jet Stream
  • Elevation

Questão 36

Questão
What is the name of the Prevailing Wind that moves from West to East across Canada?
Responda
  • Jet Stream
  • Southeast Trade
  • Northeast Trade
  • Doldrums

Questão 37

Questão
Polar Fronts are responsible for much of Canada's rainfall.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 38

Questão
Elevation is often responsible for Relief Precipitation.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 39

Questão
Which of the following statements about Maritime Climates is true?
Responda
  • It has more precipitation in the Winter months.
  • It has more precipitation in the Summer months.
  • The temperature range is more than 25C.
  • The annual rainfall is less than 1000 mm.

Questão 40

Questão
Which of the following statements about Continental Climates is true?
Responda
  • It has more precipitation in the summer months.
  • It has more precipitation in the winter months.
  • The temperature range is less than 25C.
  • The annual precipitation is less than 1000mm.

Questão 41

Questão
Which of the reasons below is NOT responsible for Canada having many different Climates?
Responda
  • It is a large country
  • It has different elevations
  • Coastal regions are different than inland regions
  • Wind and Air Masses remain stationary over different parts of the country.

Questão 42

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a type of precipitation?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief
  • Convectional
  • Frontal

Questão 43

Questão
What is happening in the picture?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief Precipitation
  • Convectional Precipitation
  • Frontal Precipitation

Questão 44

Questão
Why is air cooler at higher elevations?
Responda
  • There is less air pressure.
  • It is farther from the ground, so it is colder.
  • It is closer to the sun, so it is actually warmer.
  • Air is the same temperature everywhere in the atmosphere.

Questão 45

Questão
What type of precipitation is shown?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief
  • Convectional
  • Frontal

Questão 46

Questão
What type of precipitation is shown?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief
  • Convectional
  • Frontal

Questão 47

Questão
What type of precipitation is shown in the picture?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief
  • Convectional
  • Frontal

Questão 48

Questão
When moist air rises up the windward slope of a mountain, what type of precipitation could we expect?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief
  • Convectional
  • Frontal

Questão 49

Questão
When heat from the sun causes warm moist air to rise, what type of precipitation would we expect?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief
  • Convectional
  • Frontal

Questão 50

Questão
When a cool air mass meets a warm air mass, the warmer air mass is forced up and over the cool air mass. What type of precipitation is this?
Responda
  • Condensation
  • Relief
  • Convectional
  • Frontal

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