Chapter 6 Geography

Question 0

Tectonic

Answer 0

To do with the structure of the earths crust

Question 1

Region

Answer 1

An area with similar characteristics

Question 2

Fold mountains

Answer 2

The mountains created by breaks in the earths crust

Question 3

Erode

Answer 3

To wear down the surface of the earth

Question 4

Glaciation

Answer 4

Land being covered with thick moving ice

Question 5

Vegetation

Answer 5

Plants grow naturally in an area

Question 6

Topography

Answer 6

The shape of the land

Question 7

Climate

Answer 7

The prevailing condition of temperature and precipitation.

Question 8

What are the 3 layers of the earth

Answer 8

The mantle, crust and core.

Question 9

What is the earths crust?

Answer 9

A thin layer, about 5km long. It is broken into large pieces called plates.

Question 10

What is the mantle.

Answer 10

It is made up of molten rock called magma.

Question 11

What is the core?

Answer 11

The core is a hot, dense mass that is a solid. The intense heat is responsible for melting the rock in the mantle.

Question 12

What is magma?

Answer 12

It is a thick material that slowly swirls liked boiling water. The magma causes the plates to move.

Question 13

How does a volcano occur?

Answer 13

It occurs when the earths crust breaks and mooted rock from the mantle pushes up.

Question 14

What are volcanic mountains?

Answer 14

After an eruption another layer of moulted rock reaches the earths surface. Where it cools and hardens.

Question 15

What are the Appalachians?

Answer 15

The east coast of North America.

Question 16

What rovince are the Appalachians in?

Answer 16

Newfound land.

Question 17

What are the size if the Appalachian mountains?

Answer 17

Low. They have been eroded because they have been around for 300 000 000.

Question 18

Sedimentary?

Answer 18

The type of rock formed by erosion of other rocks, other rocks after this loose material ax hardened.

Question 19

Confiduous?

Answer 19

Ever greens, trees or shrubs bearing cones.

Question 20

Deciduous?

Answer 20

Trees that shed their leaves annually.

Question 21

Marsh?

Answer 21

Low land that is flooded in wet water and almost always wet.

Question 22

Delta?

Answer 22

An area of soil or slits deposits built up at the mouth of a river.

Question 23

Escarpment?

Answer 23

A steep cliff formed by erosion or faulting.

Question 24

Continental climate?

Answer 24

A type of climate that develops away from the influence of oceans. The temperature ranges tends to be large and precipitation is low.

Question 25

Rift Valley?

Answer 25

A valley that is created when the portion of the land between two faults drop down.

Question 26

Faulting?

Answer 26

Movement along a crack or cracks in the earths crust.

Question 27

Tornado?

Answer 27

A brief but very destructive storm characterized by a wind funnel.

Question 28

Vortex?

Answer 28

A mass of fluid or air that whirls in a rotary direction.

Question 29

Muskeg?

Answer 29

A level bog or swamp found in Canada.

Question 30

Boreal?

Answer 30

Northern or of the arctic.

Question 31

What region is know for having a lot of escarpments?

Answer 31

St lawerence and the Great Lakes.

Question 32

Explain the topography of the Great Lakes and st Lawrence region?

Answer 32

Rolling landscapes, created by glaciation. Flag plains broken up by hills and deep river valleys.

Question 33

What is the climate for the Great Lakes and st Lawrence region?

Answer 33

The climate is continental climate so the range is big. The lakes keep the climate humid in the summer.

Question 34

Vegetation in the Great Lakes and st Lawrence region?

Answer 34

The soil is very fertile, and used to be very heavily treed. With the largest broad leafed forest in Canada.

Question 35

Where are the coastal plains?

Answer 35

It Is 3200, from cape cod along the east coast to Florida all the way down to Mexico.

Question 36

What Is the topography for the coastal plains?

Answer 36

They are less than 200m-30m above sea level. They are flat and mostly made up of marshes and swamps.

Question 37

What is the coastal plains climate?

Answer 37

In the north it is cold and snowy and hot humid summers. The south has. Mild winters and hot hot summers. The southern region also has hurricanes.

Question 38

Vegetation coastal plains?

Answer 38

The area is mostly sandy but plants have adapted. Like in Mexico jungles have grown. The native forest was pine.

Question 39

Where does the interior plains run through?

Answer 39

In Canada it runs in between the Rockies and the Canadian Shield. In the USA it runs in between the Appalachians and the Rockies

Question 40

Where it the interior plaines divided into smaller sections?

Answer 40

In the US the plains are divvied into central lowland and the Great Plains. The bored is the Great Lakes and st. Lawrence River.

Question 41

Where are the central lowlands?

Answer 41

Above the Great Plains. In the interior plains.

Question 42

What is the climate for the interior plains?

Answer 42

Conte tail climate. So the range is very big. Hot summers and cold winters with little precipitation.

Question 43

Vegetation for interior plains?

Answer 43

In the central lowland wax covered with lost of deciduous trees. In the Great Plains also in the Canadian portion the natural vegetation is grasslands.

Question 44

What is the Canadian Shield mainly made up of?

Answer 44

Volcanic mountains.

Question 45

Topography for Canadian Shield?

Answer 45

The glaciers move and eroded the natural soil. Leaving the rock. 100-50m above sea level.

Question 46

Canadian Shield climate?

Answer 46

Long winters the farther up north you go and short warm and cool summers.

Question 47

Canadian Shield vegetation?

Answer 47

Boreal forest cover most of the shield. The trees are small and weak.

Question 48

What is a valuable that the Canadian Shield store.

Answer 48

Minerals.