Landform Regions Test

Question 1

What are the five provinces and territories of the interior plains?

Answer 1

Northwest territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia

Question 2

What 9 provinces/territories are in the Canadian Shield

Answer 2

Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba, Saskatchewan,

Question 3

Topography what does the interior plains look like and major features

Answer 3

Rolling Hills, escarpments, River valley

Question 4

What is the topography of the Canadian shield

Answer 4

Low round hills, lots of lakes, ponds, and rivers

Question 5

How many years ago was the interior plains formed and what era was it created in?

Answer 5

Started 1.9 billion years ago and lasted for 500 million years. Paleozoic and Mesozoic.

Question 6

Age/Era when the interior formed

Answer 6

Precambrian era

4.28 billon years old

Question 7

How was the interior plains formed

Answer 7

Sedimentary rock eroded from the Canadian Shield creating sedimentary layer in the interior plains

Question 8

Process of how the interior plains were formed

Answer 8

Formed from plate tectonics, erosion, and glaciation

Question 9

Location of the G.L.S.L.L. ‘S

Answer 9

Ontario and Quebec

Question 10

Topography of the G.L.S.L.L. ‘S

Answer 10

Flat lands, gently rolling hills

Question 11

What are the five provinces and territories that the Hudson Bay and arctic low lands are located in?

Answer 11

Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut, Northwest territories.

Question 12

Topography what does the land look like in the major features?

Answer 12

Covered by swampy forest and vegetation, three lays plain with cold dry climate

Question 13

What era was the G.L.S.L.L.’S formed in

Answer 13

Palaeozoic era

Question 14

What era was the Hudson Bay and arctic low lands formed?

Answer 14

Paleozoic era

Question 15

Process of how the G.L.S.L.L.’S was formed

Answer 15

Glaciers melted and created valleys & rolling hills in the land

Question 16

How was the Hudson Bay and arctic low lands formed?

Answer 16

The Arctic ball lands formed from tectonic plate movement and Hudson Bay sediments from the last Ice Age

Question 17

What 4 provinces are in the Appalachian’s region

Answer 17

Pei, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec

Question 18

Age/era or when the Appalachian’s were formed

Answer 18

300 million years ago/ In the Palaeozoic era

Question 19

Topography of the Appalachians

Answer 19

Rounded hills, inter mountains, deep gorges

Question 20

What are the two provinces and territories of the Innuitians?

Answer 20

Nunavut Northwest Territories.

Question 21

Process of how the Appalachian’s were formed

Answer 21

North America & African plate collided

Question 22

Process of how the western cordillera was formed

Answer 22

Pacific and North American palate collided

Question 23

Topography what does the Innuitians look like?

Answer 23

Ice covered sharp peaked mountains.

Question 24

era(s) of when the western cordillera was formed

Answer 24

Mesozoic and Cenozoic

Question 25

What age was there Innuitians when it was formed and what era was it formed in?

Answer 25

Mesozoic era and 330 million years ago

Question 26

Location of Western Cordillera what are the 2 provinces

Answer 26

British Columbia and Alberta

Question 27

Topography what does the western cordillera area look like?

Answer 27

Rivers, valleys, plateaus, and vast forests