geo

Question 1

Provinces

Answer 1

Yukon, northwest territories, Nunavut, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, labrador, prince Edward island, Nova Scotia.

Question 2

Capitals

Answer 2

Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, regina, Quebec city, fredericton, Halifax, Charlotte town, Victoria, St. Johns, Iqaluit, whitehorse, Yellowknife.

Question 3

Some essential things about making a map

Answer 3

title, Legend, scale, date of publication, direction, borders, name, compass, horizontal labelling, black ink

Question 4

Physical geography

Answer 4

is a subfield of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes within the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere.

Question 5

What are the four parts of the internal structure of the earth

Answer 5

The crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core

Question 6

What are their approximate sizes

Answer 6

The earth’s crust is about 15 to 20 kms thick. The mantle is about 2,900 km. The outer core is about 2,200. Km. The inner core is about 1,200 km.

Question 7

What natural disasters are caused by the structure of the earth

Answer 7

Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides

Question 8

What was Alfred Wegener’s theory? What made him come up with this theory

Answer 8

His theory was continental drift which stated that only the continent drifted. He believed that the continents used to be one huge land mass called Pangea.

Question 9

Who eventually came up with the idea of tectonic plates?

Answer 9

Alfred Wegener came up with the idea of tectonic plates in 1968

Question 10

What are the different types of plate boundaries? Study diagrams

Answer 10

Divergent plate boundary, convergent plate boundary and transform

Question 11

What are the three types of rocks

Answer 11

Igneous rock, Sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock.

Question 12

How do they change rock types?

Answer 12

Metamorphism, erosion and sedimentation. Any rock can transform into any other rock by passing through one or more of these.

Question 13

What is the rock cycle? How does it work?

Answer 13

The rock cycle is a series of processes that create and transform the types of rocks in the earth’s crust. Inside the earth’s heat, pressure and melting change sedimentary and igneous rock into metamorphic rock. Intense heating results in manga bursting through the earth’s surface and turning into solid igneous rock. Then the cycle starts all over again.

Question 14

Yukons capital

Answer 14

whitehorse

Question 15

Northwest Territories capital

Answer 15

Yellowknife

Question 16

Nunavut capital

Answer 16

iqaluit

Question 17

British Columbia capital

Answer 17

Victoria

Question 18

Alberta capital

Answer 18

Edmonton

Question 19

Saskatchewan capital

Answer 19

Regina

Question 20

Manitoba capital

Answer 20

Winnipeg

Question 21

Ontario capital

Answer 21

toronto

Question 22

Quebec capital

Answer 22

Quebec City

Question 23

Newfoundland and Labrador capital

Answer 23

St. Johns

Question 24

Prince Eward island capital

Answer 24

charlotte town

Question 25

Nova scotia capital

Answer 25

Halifax

Question 26

New Brunswick capital

Answer 26

Fredericton

Question 27

What is a landform region?

Answer 27

A landform is a feature on earth’s surface that is part of a terrain. Mountains, hills, plateaus and plains are four main landforms.

Question 28

What are its different characteristics?

Answer 28

Landforms are categorized by characteristics such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification.

Question 29

divergent plate boundary

Question 30

convergent plate boundary

Question 31

transform plate boundary

Question 32

rock cycle