Geography Unit 3

Question 1

Convergent boundary?

Answer 1

2 plates collide and one eventually slides under the other.

Question 2

Divergent boundary?

Answer 2

2 plates move away from eachother.

Question 3

Transform boundary?

Answer 3

2 plates slide past eachother.

Question 4

tectonic plate?

Answer 4

gigantic peice of earths crust that cracked.

Question 5

weathering?

Answer 5

the breaking down or dissolving of rockd and minerals.

Question 6

erosion?

Answer 6

water,wind, and other natural forces causing rocks and earth to wear away.

Question 7

lava?

Answer 7

molten rock that comes from volcanoe

Question 8

magma?

Answer 8

hot iquid and semi liquid ock under earths surface

Question 9

deposition?

Answer 9

the laying down of sediments carried by wind,water, or ice.

Question 10

climate change?

Answer 10

long term shifts in temp and weather patterns.

Question 11

coniferous trees?

Answer 11

have cones and needles instead of leaves.

Question 12

decidious trees?

Answer 12

shedding its leaves annualy.

Question 13

igneous rock?

Answer 13

when hot molten cools and solidifies.

Question 14

sedimentary rock?

Answer 14

igneous rock turnes into sediments then i compacted into sedimentary.

Question 15

metamorphic rock?

Answer 15

when rock is subjected to high heat and pressure.

Question 16

humus?

Answer 16

dark organic material that forms in soil when plant and animal matter decays.

Question 17

climate graph?

Answer 17

average temp and rain ina ayear in an area.

Question 18

moraine?

Answer 18

material left behind by moving glaciers.

Question 19

kettles lake?

Answer 19

water filled hole by receding glaciers that formed millions of years ago.

Question 20

drumlin?

Answer 20

oval shaped hill composed of glacil drift formed beneath a gacier on ice sheet.

Question 21

what bounbdary would you see mountains on?

Answer 21

convergent

Question 22

where are most divergent plates located?

Answer 22

underwater

Question 23

what could trabsform boundaries have?

Answer 23

fault lines and rift vallys.

Question 24

what province has highest risk of earthquakes?

Answer 24

british colombia

Question 25

how did glaciers affect canandas landscaoe?

Answer 25

by widening vallys and sculpting moraines and bedrock smoothed.

Question 26

what is the rock cycel?

Answer 26

magma cools into igneous rock which is then put under weatherign and erosion which turns to sediment. The sediment compresses into sedimentary rock and is then under heat and pressure which becomes metamrphic rock.

Question 27

what is LOWERN

Answer 27

reminds us what factors affect clinae change.

Question 28

what does LOWERN stand for

Answer 28

L-latitude O-ocean currents W-wind and air masses E-elavation R-releif N-nearness to water.

Question 29

what are the landform regions west to east?

Answer 29

western cordillera, interior plains, canadian shield, great lakes st lawrence lowlands, hudson bay lowlands, innutions, appalachia.