Unit 2 Test 2

Question 1

What are the seven landform regions of Canada?

Answer 1

Innutian Mountains, Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands, Western Cordillera, Interior planes, Canadian Shield, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowland, Appalachians.

Question 2

What are the three landforms?

Answer 2

Canadian Shield, Highlands, Lowlands.

Question 3

What is LOWERN?

Answer 3

Latitude, Ocean currents, Wind and air masses, Elevation, Relief, Near water.

Question 4

What is the difference between Maritime and Continental climates?

Answer 4

Maritime climates have more controlled temperatures while Continental climates have bigger spikes. Maritime climates have more than 1000mm of annual precipitation while Continental have less than 1000.

Question 5

What are the eight climate regions?

Answer 5

Arctic, Taiga, Cordilleran, Pacific Maritime, Boreal, Prairie, South Eastern, Atlantic Maritime.

Question 6

Describe the weather in the BOREAL region.

Answer 6

The latitude results in very cold winters and short summers.

Question 7

Describe the weather in the PRAIRIE region.

Answer 7

Distance from water results in dry conditions. It is the driest region in Canada.

Question 8

Describe the weather in the TAIGA region.

Answer 8

Winds bring very cold weather during the fall and winter.

Question 9

Describe the weather in the PACIFIC MARITIME region.

Answer 9

Nearness to the oceans has a moderating effect on the climate, meaning summers are cool and winters are mild.

Question 10

Describe the weather in the CORDILLERAN region.

Answer 10

The elevation leads to cold and snowy temperatures. The winds and air masses create desert like regions.

Question 11

What are the indigenous peoples of northern Canada arguing?

Answer 11

They are the first to experience and suffer from the effects of global warming.

Question 12

Where do indigenous traditional ecological knowledge come from?

Answer 12

Through oral histories, hunting and fishing patterns, and other observations that come from calling a place home for millennia.

Question 13

What is a feedback loop?

Answer 13

A cycle in which the output of a process becomes an input back into the same process.

Question 14

What does “Carbon Negative” mean?

Answer 14

Becoming carbon negative requires a company, sector or country to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than it emits.

Question 15

What does “Carbon Neutral” and “Net Zero,” mean?

Answer 15

Means that any CO2 released into the atmosphere from human activity is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed.

Question 16

What are the three ways to removing CO2 from the atmosphere and provide examples.

Answer 16

(Nature based solutions) Afforestation and Reforestation. These allow trees to take the CO2 away. (Enhanced natural processes) biochar allows carbon to be stored for hundreds of years.

Question 17

What is soil a combination of?

Answer 17

A combination of organic matter, gases, liquids, and organisms.

Question 18

What are the functions of soil?

Answer 18

Support plant life, and they store, supply, and purfiy water. Soils also provide habitat for organisms.

Question 19

What are the four soil types that are mostly in Canada?

Answer 19

Tundra soil, Wet-climate soil, Dry-climate soil, Complex soils of mountain areas.

Question 20

Where is tundra soil found?

Answer 20

Arctic region, most of Nunavut, Northwest territories, and northern Quebec.

Question 21

Where is Wet-climate soil found?

Answer 21

Most of NWT, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Manitoba, ONTARIO, maritimes, and most of Quebec.

Question 22

Where is Dry-climate soil found?

Answer 22

Southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Question 23

Where is complex soils of mountain areas found?

Answer 23

MOST of B.C. and Yukon

Question 24

What is natural vegetation?

Answer 24

Plant life that is native to the area that has not been changed by humans.

Question 25

What does natural vegetation depend on?

Answer 25

Depends on the temperature, precipitation, and soils in an area.