Unit 3

Question 1

Where is the western cordillera located?

Answer 1

The west coast of Canada

Question 2

What are some things in the western cordillera?

Answer 2

It has

Young mountains with high pointed peaks that are steep, jagged and snow capped

Question 3

What are some economic activities?

Answer 3

Fishing
Mining
Tourism

Question 4

Where is the interior plain located?

Answer 4

The prairies

Question 5

What are some things in the interior plains?

Answer 5

Flat land

Few large water bodies

Question 6

What are some economic activities in the interior plains?

Answer 6

Farming(wheat)

Mining( gas and oil)

Question 7

Where is the l Canadian Shield located?

Answer 7

Central and eastern canada

Question 8

What are some things in the Canadian Shield?

Answer 8

Many rivers, forest, hills and thin soil with exposed rocks

Question 9

Where is the Great Lakes st Lawrence lowlands located?

Answer 9

Southern Ontario and Quebec

Question 10

What are some things in the Great Lakes st Lawrence lowlands?

Answer 10

It is the most populated place
Many water bodies
Many forests

Question 11

What are some economic activities in the Canadian Shield?

Answer 11

Mining
Fishing
Tourism

Question 12

Wha are some economic activities in the Great Lakes st Lawrence lowlands?

Answer 12

Industry
Forestry
Farming

Question 13

Where is the article lowlands Hudson Bay lowlands located?

Answer 13

Northern and southern area of the Hudson Bay

Question 14

What are some things in the Arctic lowland Hudson Bay lowlands?

Answer 14

Covered by swamps and forest

Question 15

What are some economic activities in the arctic lowlands Hudson Bay lowlands?

Answer 15

Mining
Fishing
Tourism

Question 16

Where are the innuition mountains located?

Answer 16

Far north

Question 17

What are some things in the innuition mountains?

Answer 17

Most northerly mountain range
Extremely cold
Many islands

Question 18

How many landform region are there?

Answer 18

7

Question 19

What are the names of the 7 landform regions in Canada

Answer 19

The western cordillera 
Interior plains
Canadian Shield 
Great Lakes st lawrence lowlands 
Applachians
The Arctic lowlands Hudson Bay lowlands 
Innuition mountains

Question 20

What are the 5 eras?

Answer 20

The Cenozoic
The Mesozoic
The Paleozoic
The Precambrian

Question 21

When did the Precambrian era began and end?

Answer 21

4600-570 ( million years)

Question 22

When the Paleozoic era began and end?

Answer 22

570-245 ( million years)

Question 23

When did the mesozoic year began and end?

Answer 23

245- 66 (million years)

Question 24

When did the cenozoic era began?

Answer 24

66 (million years )

Question 25

What are some major geologic events in the Cenozoic era?

Answer 25

Ice sheet cover most of North America Continents were taking it current shape Formation of the Rocky Mountains completed

Question 26

What were some geologic events that happen in the Mesozoic era?

Answer 26

Formation of the Rocky Mountains begins | The innuition mountains formed

Question 27

What are some major geologic events happen in the Palaeozoic era?

Answer 27

Periods when large part of North America was covered by shallow seas Appalachian were formed

Question 28

What geologic events happen in the Precambrian era?

Answer 28

The Shield were formed ( Canadian Shield etc)

Question 29

What were some major biological events happen in the Cenozoic era?

Answer 29

Humans developed | Age of mammals

Question 30

What were some major biological events happen in the Mesozoic era ?

Answer 30

Age of reptiles First flowing plants First birds and mammals

Question 31

What were some major biological events happen in the Paleozoic era?

Answer 31

Age of the amphibian and fish First insects Large swamps First plants and animals appear on land

Question 32

What were some major biological events happen in the Precambrian era?

Answer 32

The first multi cell organisms | The first single cell organisms

Question 33

What does era mean?

Answer 33

A major division of time of geologic time

Question 34

What is a glacier?

Answer 34

Slow moving masses of ice

Question 35

What is geologic time?

Answer 35

History of earth form it’s formation to the present

Question 36

What is erosion?

Answer 36

Is when the earth surface is wearing away

Question 37

What are sediments?

Answer 37

Eroded material that has be deposited by water, wind or glacial ice

Question 38

What is igneous rock?

Answer 38

Rock formed from cooling molten rock

Question 39

What is metamorphic rock?

Answer 39

Rock formed when sedimentary or igneous rock are under great heat and pressure

Question 40

What is sedimentary rock?

Answer 40

Rock formed in Katara form the compression of sediments over millions of years

Question 41

Wha does folding mean?

Answer 41

Bending of rock layer

Question 42

What does faulting mean?

Answer 42

Movement along a crack or cracks in the earths crust

Question 43

What is magma?

Answer 43

Molten rock