Unit 2 - Imteractions With The Physical Environment

Question 1

What’s a survey System?

Answer 1

A grid system used to locate and identify parcels of land and road.

Question 2

What are plate tectonics?

Answer 2

The theory that the earths outer shell is make of individual plates that move causing earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains.

Question 3

Name the 3 types of plate movement and what they do with examples.

Answer 3

Divergent - two plates move apart from each other (volcanoes are formed)
Convergent - continental meets oceanic (subduction) and continental meets continental (mountains)
Transform - 2 plates more parallel in opposite directions

Question 4

What are the impacts of glaciation?

Answer 4

By erosion - 1. Removal of materials 2. Changes to drainage patterns
By deposition - by ice > 3. Till plains 4. Moraines
by meltwater > 5. Moving water 6. Still water

Question 5

What’s weathering?

Answer 5

The breaking down of rocks.

Question 6

What’s erosion?

Answer 6

The moving of broken-up pieces of rock.

Question 7

What’s deposition?

Answer 7

The building up of eroded material in a new place.

Question 8

Name the 3 highlands.

Answer 8

1. Innuitian Mountains
2. Western Cordillera
3. Appalachians

Question 9

Name the 3 lowlands.

Answer 9

1. Interior Plains
2. Great Lakes - St. Lawrence lowlands
3. Hudson Bay lowlands

Question 10

Name all 7 landform regions in Canada.

Answer 10

Lowlands - Interior Plains, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
Highlands - Innuitian Mountains, Western Cordillera, Appalachian
Canadian Shield

Question 11

What does LOWERN stand for?

Answer 11

Latitude 
Ocean currents 
Winds and air masses 
Elevation 
Relief 
Near water

Question 12

What’s a maritime climate?

Answer 12

A maritime climate is a climate near oceans, the annual temperature rand is low and precipitation high

Question 13

What’s annual temperature range?

Answer 13

Temperature of warmest month minus temperature of coldest month

Question 14

What’s a continental climate?

Answer 14

Climate in areas far from ocean, large annual temperature range and low precipitation

Question 15

Name the 8 climate regions of Canada

Answer 15

1. Arctic
2. Taiga
3. Cordilleran
4. Pacific Maritime
5. Boreal
6. Prairie
7. Southeastern
8. Atlantic Maritime

Question 16

What’s a soil profile?

Answer 16

The three different layers that exist in the soil beneath the surface of the ground. Each layer has a particular combination of physical, biological and chemical characteristics.

Question 17

Name both technical and common terms in a soil profile.

Answer 17

A horizon- Topsoil
B horizon- subsoil
C horizon- parent material

Question 18

What are wet climate soils?

Answer 18

Soils that develop where leaching is the dominant soil forming process.

Question 19

What are dry climate soils?

Answer 19

Soils that develop where calcification is the dominant soil-forming process.