Canada's Landform Regions

Question 1

Name Canada’s landform regions.

Answer 1

1. Canadian Shield
2. Interior Plains
3. Hudson Bay- Arctic Lowlands
4. Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Lowlands
5. Appalacians
6. Western Cordillera
7. Innuitian Mountains

Question 2

How many landform regions does Canada have?

Answer 2

7

Question 3

Give 5 facts for the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Lowlands

Answer 3

1. It is the most populated region of Canada
2. It contains the largest group of inland lakes in the world
3. The St. Lawrence is 1300 km long
4. Has a mild climate because it is close to water
5. Glacier deposits (marians) made rolling hills.

Question 4

Give 5 facts for the Appalacians

Answer 4

1. Was created when the African plate smashed into the North American plate.
2. Large boulders and fjords are evidence of volcanoes and glaciers
3. Highest tides in the world are found in the Bay of Fundy
4. The prime industry is fishing.
5. There is unpredictable fog due to conflicting air currents.

Question 5

Give 5 facts for the Western Cordillera

Answer 5

1. It is the western most region of Canada
2. It was once a flat plain
3. Contains the highest and most extensive mountain ranges
4. The main industries are fishing and forestry
5. It receives up to 250 mL of rainfall.

Question 6

What are landform regions?

Answer 6

Areas defined by its common characteristics.

Question 7

How do geographers organize their study of the earth?

Answer 7

By splitting it into regions.

Question 8

What may be caused when land is violently pushed upwards?

Answer 8

Mountains

Question 9

Mountains can be worn down by what?

Answer 9

Wind, rain, running water, and ice.

Question 10

What is the wearing down of the earth called?

Answer 10

Erosion

Question 11

How was Canada created?

Answer 11

Mountain building, weathering, and erosion.

Question 12

What are Canada’s 3 distinctive landform types?

Answer 12

1. Shield
2. Highlands
3. Lowlands

Question 13

The region we are currently living in:

Answer 13

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

Question 14

Large oil and gas deposits are found beacse of the ancient coral reefs that once dominated the shallow inland seas here.

Answer 14

Interior Planes

Question 15

The oldest highland region in Canada

Answer 15

Appalacians

Question 16

Often referred to as the storehouse of Canada’s metallic minerals.

Answer 16

The Canadian Shield

Question 17

The waters of Hudson Bay covered much of this lowland at the end of the last ice age.

Answer 17

Hudson Bay- Arctic Lowlands

Question 18

This region’s remote location makes development too costly.

Answer 18

Innuitian Mountains

Question 19

Home to the only remaining glaciers in Canada south of the Arctic

Answer 19

Western Cordillera

Question 20

Millions of years of erosion has reduced its once jagged peaks into rolling mountains and hills.

Answer 20

Appalacians

Question 21

Often referred to as Canada’s industrial and urban heartland.

Answer 21

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

Question 22

Water does not pass through the imperious bedrock here.

Answer 22

Canadian Shield

Question 23

Made up of a series of islands located in Canada’s far north.

Answer 23

Hudson Bay- Arctic Lowlands

Question 24

The mountains here are geologically young.

Answer 24

Innuitian Mountains

Question 25

The rocks are 3.96 billion years old

Answer 25

Canadian Shield

Question 26

Known as Canada’s breadbasket.

Answer 26

Interior Plains, lots of wheat is grown.

Question 27

Similar rocks are found in Wales and Scotland

Answer 27

Appalachians

Question 28

Part of this region is a very flat, low area covered by swampy forests.

Answer 28

Hudson Bay- Arctic Lowlands

Question 29

The pacific plate is forcing its way under this reigon.

Answer 29

Western Cordillera

Question 30

Glaciers have dumped large amounts of stuff.

Answer 30

Interior Plains

Question 31

These highlands are mostly composed of sedimentary rock.

Answer 31

Innuitian Mountains

Question 32

Name 5 facts about the Arctic- Hudson Bay Lowlands.

Answer 32

1. They are Canada’s most northernly region
2. Wild and remote
3. Little population and no roads
4. Northern part of the Arctic Circle
5. Ancient glaciers carved out the landscape

Question 33

Name 5 facts about the Canadian Shield.

Answer 33

1. It surrounds Hudson Bay
2. It is 5 million km2
3. 96 billion year old bedrock.
4. There are canyons, high cliffs, bogs, streams and lakes.
5. Mining, minerals.

Question 34

Name 5 facts about the Interior Plains

Answer 34

1. East of the Cordillera
2. Flat, good for farming.
3. South has cold winters and hot summers, good for wheat.
4. Rich soil
5. Fossil fuels