2 Physiography of Cordillera Flashcards
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?
- The first humans came through a corridor in the continental ice sheet from the Bering Land Bridge to North America, and <12600 years ago
- 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
Look at slide 18-22
First Nations
What treaty region in Canada is Calgary?
Treaty 7
What are the Stoney Nakoda Reserves in South Alberta? From North to South
Big Horn, Rabbit Lake, Morely, and Eden Valley
What and where is Mount Rundle?
One of the iconic mountains in Banff that is most known for its large horizontal face
What was the original name of Mount Rundle? And what is the meaning?
Waskahigan Watchi and mean house mountain in Cree
Who is Mount Rundle named after?
A missionary in the 1840s that visited the Stoney-Nakoda area named Reverend Robert Rundle
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?
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
Define Physiography
Describes the earth’s suface. This includes mountains and valleys, the way rivers flow, and the way in which land erodes
Define a mountain
A land feature sufficiently elevated above the surrounding land if more than ~300m (~1000 ft.)
Define Cordillera
An extensive series of more or less parallel ranges on mountains ( with there associated valleys, basins, plains, plateaus, rivers, and lakes
What are two things that occur if something is considered a mountain?
Worthy of a distinctive name and characterized by a restricted summit area (AKA a peak)
Define the Canadian cordillera
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
What physiographic region is Calgary in?
Interior Plains and close to the Cordillera
Where in the Cordillera is the Rocky Mountains and what does it look?
Is the eastern part of the Cordillera and runs from Northern Alberta down to Northern New Mexico
What are the rocky mountain foothills and what towns are in this area?
The most eastern part of the Rockies that you first enter when leaving Calgary. Includes towns like Bagg Creek and Cochrane
What is the Rocky Mountain front range? What towns are in this area?
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
What towns and mountains are in the Rocky Mountains main range
Castle Mountain AB, Emerald Lake BC, Lake Lousie AB, and Field BC
*What is the highest mountain in the Canadian Rocky Mountains?
Mount Robson with an elevation of ~4000m (~13000 ft) and is west of edmonton
What is the continental divide? What are the two rivers that run in either direction (Atlantic and Pacific)?
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
Where is the continental divide that seperate the Artic ocean, pacific ocean and Atlantic ocean and what is called?
Athabasca Icefield Saskatchewan Glacier called the snow dome
What is a triple continental divide called
An apex
What and where is the Rocky Mountain Trench
It separates the Rocky mountain from more western ranges in the Cordillera and is the most western part of the Rocky Mountains
What town is in the Rocky Mountains trench?
Golden BC
