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Physical geography - landforms + plate techtonics 2 Flashcards

1
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What are the three main landforms in Canada?

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Canadian Shield, Highlands, Lowlands

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What is the biggest landform area in Canada?

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The Canadian Shield

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What rock (s) does the Canadian shield mostly consist of?

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Igneous and Metamorphic

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What landform is called the storehouse of Canada’s metallic minerals?

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Canadian Shield

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What are the three highland areas in Canada?

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Innuitian, Appalachian, and Western Cordillera

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Where are the appalachian mountains?

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The east coast; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland

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Where is the innuitian mountains?

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In the arctic region of Canada; Nunavut, NWT

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Where are the Western Cordillera mountains?

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The west coast; B.C

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What are the oldest mountains in Canada and when were they formed?

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Appalachian mountains formed at the end of the Palozoic era

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What are the Appalachians rich in?

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Coal, Zinc, Iron

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What are the youngest mountains in Canada?

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The western cordillera

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Why is the Canadian shield sometimes called the Precambrian shield?

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Because it formed during the Precambrian era

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When did the Innuitian mountains form and what rock are they mostly made up of?

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Mesozoic era; Sedimentary rock

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Name the 4 time periods from earliest to most recent:

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Precambrian, Paleozotic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

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Why can’t you extract minerals from the Innuitian mountains?

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Because the area is too rural and covered in ice

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What are the three lowland areas?

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  1. Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
  2. Hudson Bay - Arctic Lowlands
  3. Interior Plains
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17
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Where are the GL - St. LL?

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They are located in Southern Ontario

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How was the GL - St. LL formed and why is it good for farming?

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By glaciers that deposited soil, sand, and gravel that made the ground fertile (rolling hills)

19
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Where are the Hudson Bay - Arctic Lowlands?

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The South West shore of Hudson Bay

20
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Where are the Interior Plains?

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In the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba (down through the US)

21
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What is the Hudson Bay - Arctic Lowlands like?

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Flat - low areas with swampy forests

22
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What did the interior plains used to be like?

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Used to be covered with shallow glacier meltwater that deposited sediments

23
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What is Canada’s breadbasket and why is it called that?

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The interior plains are called that because wheat, grain, canola, oil, and gas are there

24
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Who was the scientist that first suggested the idea of continential drift?

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Alfred Wegener

25
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When did all the land masses collide to form Pangaea?

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300 Million years ago

26
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What is continential drift?

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The idea that techtonic plates are spreading apart and taking the continents with them

27
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How are the plates drifting?

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They drift because of the convection currents inside the earth that are rising (because of uneven temperatures) and forcing the plates apart

28
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What is a trench?

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Two colliding plates after the heavier one subducts

29
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What is a ridge?

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The area that is made when magma rises when the seafloor spreads

30
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What are the 4 pieces of evidence that Alfred Wegener used to prove his theory?

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  1. Jigsaw puzzle 2. Ice sheets
  2. Fossils 4. Coastal mountains
31
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Why didn’t the other scientists believe Alfred?

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Because they didn’t believe there was a force strong enough to pull apart plates

32
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What is converging, diverging, and subducting?

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Converging - the plates colliding
Diverging - the plates pulling apart
Subducting - the heavier plate going underneath the lighter one when they collide

33
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What are the three main types of rock?

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Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary

34
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How is each rock formed?

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Igneous - melting and cooling
Metamorphic - heat and pressure
Sedimentary - weathering, erosion, deposition, and compression

35
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What is an example of each type of rock?

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Igneous : Granite
Metamorphic : Gneiss
Sedimentary : Limestone

36
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How do you go from sediments to sedimentary rock?

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Compression

37
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How do you go from metamorphic rock to sediments?

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Weathering, erosion, deposition

38
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How do you go from sedimentary rock to metamorphic?

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heat and pressure

39
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How do you go from metamorphic to magma to igneous?

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melting then cooling

40
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What are the three parts of western cordillera?

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The coastal mountains, interior plateaus, and columbia / rocky mountains

41
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What are the three parts of the interior plains?

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Alberta plain, Saskatchewan plain, and the Manitoba lowland

42
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Why are the mountains in western cordillera smoother than the appalachian mountains?

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Because the mountains in western cordillera are younger, therefore they have had less time to erode

43
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How do volcanoes form?

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They form as magma rises through cracks in the earth and rests on the surface. The nearby techtonic plates contribute to how much the volcanoe erupts

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