Chapter 10: Geography

Question 1

Capital of Saskatchewan?

Answer 1

Regina

Question 2

Capital of Yukon?

Answer 2

Whitehorse

Question 3

Capital of Northwest Territories?

Answer 3

Yellowknife

Question 4

What are Physical Characteristics?

Answer 4

Landforms and bodies of water found in a place as well as its soil and mineral deposits.

Question 5

What is a Cultural Landscape?

Answer 5

Visible results of human activity.

Question 6

Geological is..?

Answer 6

Having to do with geology: Earths history through rocks

Question 7

Topography?

Answer 7

Shape of the land

Question 8

Igneous rock?

Answer 8

Rock formed by solidification of molten material

Question 9

Metamorphic rock?

Answer 9

Rock changed from heat and pressure

Question 10

Sedimentary rock?

Answer 10

Rock made up of sediment laid in layers, formed together

Question 11

Fossil fuels?

Answer 11

Natural fuel formed by geologic forces from residue of living organisms

Question 12

Evaporites?

Answer 12

Type of sedimentary rock that originates by evaporation and sea water

Question 13

Alluvium?

Answer 13

Sediments carried off by rivers

Question 14

Plate?

Answer 14

Slab of the earths crust

Question 15

Tectonics?

Answer 15

Study of earths surface features (mountain ranges..)

Question 16

Magma?

Answer 16

Molten rock material within earth, igneous rock is formed through cooling

Question 17

Mantle?

Answer 17

Interior part of earth, directly above the core

Question 18

Epicentre?

Answer 18

Earths surface directly above the quake - the middle of the quake

Question 19

Subduction zone?

Answer 19

A long region with a trench through which a descending plate is assimilated in to the mantle

Question 20

Richer scale?

Answer 20

Measurement of power of earths earthquakes

Question 21

Run-Off?

Answer 21

Pesticides, herbicides, and other materials that drain from fields into rivers and lakes

Question 22

Biome?

Answer 22

An ecological community of plants and animals extending over large areas

Question 23

System?

Answer 23

A group of things that interact with each other and together, form a whole

Question 24

Organizing principles that geographers use..?

Answer 24

Places have a location
Places have physical&sculptural characteristics
Places change 
Places interact with other places 
Places are in regions

Question 25

Region?

Answer 25

An area where certain characteristics prevail Natural, Economic, Government, and Political Economic

Question 26

Continental climate is?

Answer 26

The climate of a continents interior

Question 27

Maritime climate is?

Answer 27

A coastal climate, usually west coast

Question 28

Difference between maritime and continental climate?

Answer 28

Location

Question 29

Factors affecting temperature?

Answer 29

Latitude
Altitude
Distance from sea
Wind direction 
Ocean currents 
Precipitation

Question 30

Where do rivers begin and drain?

Answer 30

Begin in the cordillera and drain into the Hudson Bay or Pacific Ocean

Question 31

Drainage Basin?

Answer 31

An area of land drained by one river system (lower Fraser River basin)

Question 32

Boreal forest?

Answer 32

Coniferous trees, winter temperatures & erratic precipitation. Lots of deer, bears, moose, beavers etc..
Podzol

Question 33

Parkland?

Answer 33

Transitional area between dry prairie and coniferous forest, long grass with trees. Ideal for wheat, lots of humus

Question 34

Prairie?

Answer 34

“Grasslands” very dry, short grasses, sagebrush, cactus etc. lots of owls, Hawks, deer etc. Chernozem

Question 35

Interior Mountain Range?

Answer 35

Meadows, mountains, forest, plateau. Lots of bears, goats, deer etc. Tundra

Question 36

Coastal forest?

Answer 36

Coniferous rain forests(rain!) Douglas furs, red cedars, hemlock. Same animals as boreal forest.

Question 37

Slaughter of bison was..?

Answer 37

Part of the campaign to force Native peoples onto reserves (so the west coast is available to Europeans

Question 38

Capital of Alberta?

Answer 38

Edmonton