2 Physiography of Cordillera

Question 1

What are the two theories about how the first humans made it to North America? And how long ago does each theory believe they came?

Answer 1

1. The first humans came through a corridor in the continental ice sheet from the Bering Land Bridge to North America, and <12600 years ago
2. The first humans came to North America along the west coast of North America in the Pacific Ocean in boats and continued down to South America, and >14700 years ago

Question 2

Look at slide 18-22

Answer 2

First Nations

Question 3

What treaty region in Canada is Calgary?

Answer 3

Treaty 7

Question 4

What are the Stoney Nakoda Reserves in South Alberta? From North to South

Answer 4

Big Horn, Rabbit Lake, Morely, and Eden Valley

Question 5

What and where is Mount Rundle?

Answer 5

One of the iconic mountains in Banff that is most known for its large horizontal face

Question 6

What was the original name of Mount Rundle? And what is the meaning?

Answer 6

Waskahigan Watchi and mean house mountain in Cree

Question 7

Who is Mount Rundle named after?

Answer 7

A missionary in the 1840s that visited the Stoney-Nakoda area named Reverend Robert Rundle

Question 8

What island in western Canada was renamed? What the original name? What is the new name and what does it mean? And when was the change?

Answer 8

The island was originally called the Queen Charlotte Islands and was changed to Haida Gwaii which means island of the people. This change was made in 2010

Question 9

Define Physiography

Answer 9

Describes the earth’s suface. This includes mountains and valleys, the way rivers flow, and the way in which land erodes

Question 10

Define a mountain

Answer 10

A land feature sufficiently elevated above the surrounding land if more than ~300m (~1000 ft.)

Question 11

Define Cordillera

Answer 11

An extensive series of more or less parallel ranges on mountains ( with there associated valleys, basins, plains, plateaus, rivers, and lakes

Question 11

What are two things that occur if something is considered a mountain?

Answer 11

Worthy of a distinctive name and characterized by a restricted summit area (AKA a peak)

Question 12

Define the Canadian cordillera

Answer 12

The name for the mountains of western Canada and includes not only the mountain and plateau region but also the submerged regions on the continental shelf and slope

Question 13

What physiographic region is Calgary in?

Answer 13

Interior Plains and close to the Cordillera

Question 14

Where in the Cordillera is the Rocky Mountains and what does it look?

Answer 14

Is the eastern part of the Cordillera and runs from Northern Alberta down to Northern New Mexico

Question 15

What are the rocky mountain foothills and what towns are in this area?

Answer 15

The most eastern part of the Rockies that you first enter when leaving Calgary. Includes towns like Bagg Creek and Cochrane

Question 16

What is the Rocky Mountain front range? What towns are in this area?

Answer 16

The first large mountains you see when entering the Rockies. Includes many towns and areas such as Mount Lougheed in Kananaskis, Canmore, Banff, and Cascade Mountain near Banff

Question 17

What towns and mountains are in the Rocky Mountains main range

Answer 17

Castle Mountain AB, Emerald Lake BC, Lake Lousie AB, and Field BC

Question 18

*What is the highest mountain in the Canadian Rocky Mountains?

Answer 18

Mount Robson with an elevation of ~4000m (~13000 ft) and is west of edmonton

Question 19

What is the continental divide? What are the two rivers that run in either direction (Atlantic and Pacific)?

Answer 19

A set of peaks that separates the water goes to the Atlantic or Pacific ocean. To the pacific through the kicking horse river and to the Atlantic through the bow river

Question 19

Where is the continental divide that seperate the Artic ocean, pacific ocean and Atlantic ocean and what is called?

Answer 19

Athabasca Icefield Saskatchewan Glacier called the snow dome

Question 20

What is a triple continental divide called

Answer 20

An apex

Question 21

What and where is the Rocky Mountain Trench

Answer 21

It separates the Rocky mountain from more western ranges in the Cordillera and is the most western part of the Rocky Mountains

Question 22

What town is in the Rocky Mountains trench?

Answer 22

Golden BC

Question 23

What are the four mountain ranges in the Columbia Mountains?

Answer 23

Cariboo Mountains, Monashee Mountains, Purcell Mountains, and Selkirk Mountains

Question 24

What town and locations are in the Selkirk Mountains

Answer 24

Rogers Pass BC and Revelstoke BC

Question 25

What are the two distinct areas WITHIN the interior plateau?

Answer 25

Shuswap highlands and the Okanagan Highlands

Question 26

What towns and cities are in the interior plateau?

Answer 26

Kamloops, Kelowna, Shuswap Lake, Osoyoos

Question 27

What are the areas in the Coast Mountains?

Answer 27

Pacific Range, Kitimat range, boundary range , St.Elias Mountains

Question 28

What are some cities in the Pacific range of the coast mountains?

Answer 28

Vancouver and Whistler

Question 29

What is the highest peak in Canada and what is the elevation?

Answer 29

Mount Logan in the Yukon and ~6000 m (~19500 ft)

Question 30

Where is Mount Logan

Answer 30

In the Coast mountains in the St. Elias Mountains

Question 31

Where are the insular mountains

Answer 31

Haida Gwaii and the Vancouver island ranges

Question 32

What towns and cities are in the insular mountains