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Physical geo
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vancouver, Victoria | Western Cordillera |
| Calgary,Edmonton,Regina | Interior plains |
| Sudbury, Thunder bay | Canadian Shield |
| Fredericton, Halifax, St. John's | Appalachians |
| Toronto,Montreal, Ottawa | Great Lakes St Lawrence lowlands |
| Alert | Innuitian Mountains |
| Churchill | Hudson Bay Arctic Lowlands |
| Collision of North american and pacific plates caused uplifting and volcanic activity | Western cordillera |
| Sediments from canadian shield and western cordillera deposited in inland seas, compressed into rocks over time in the Paleozoic era | Interior Plains |
| Precambrian era, roots of ancient mountains created by magma rising to surface | Canadian shield |
| Layers of sedimentary rock uplifted and folded at the end of the Paleozoic era. Glaciation eroded peaks and shortened the mountains | Appalachian |
| Glaciers carried materials eroded from canadian shield and dumped them in the region | Great lakes St Lawrence Lowlands |
| Formed in the mesozoic era when the north american plate moved northward | Innuitian mountains |
| Layers of sedimentary rock deposited after the last ice age | Hudson bay Arctic Lowlands |
| Very high rugged mountains with a narrow strip of flat coastal land | Western cordillera |
| Flat rolling hills and deep wide river valleys. Dry graddrd Large wideopen area Limited trees | Interior Plains |
| Flat hills, Rocky shores , shaped like a donut around hudson bay, many lakes and ponds | Canadian shield |
| Flat plains between mountains, jagged coastline, harbours | Appalachians |
| Low lying area, Many lakes and forests, escarpments | Great lakes St lawrence lowlands |
| Barren , big mountains covered by glaciers | Innuitian mountains |
| Low area covered by swampy forests, gently rolling landscape, very little vegetation, many islands, bare rock | Hudson bay Arctic lowlands |
| 1/8 of the total population(most in Vancouver and Victoria) | Western cordillera |
| Sparse besides two cities with population nearly one million (edmonton and calgary) | Interior Plains |
| Scattered , most people live in the southern portions, mostly smaller communities | Canadian shield |
| 1/10 of canadian population | Appalachians |
| Heavily populated especially along waterways, contains over 50% of total population | Great lakes St lawrence lowlands |
| Very few people overall | Innuitian Mountains |
| Very few people Mostly inuit | Hudson bay Arctic lowlands |
| How old is the earth | 4600MA |
| 86.9% of earths age. Major Land masses formed like the canadian, african, australian and brazilian shields. First single and multi cell organisms created | Precambrian era |
| 7.1% of earths age. large parts of North america covered by shallow seas. Amphibians and fish dominate. Earths first plants and animals on land appear | Paleozoic era |
| 1.8% of earths age. Rocky mountains begin to form. Dinosaurs rule the planet and first birds and mammals appear | Mesozoic Era |
| 1.4% of earths age. Modern continents form. Ice sheets cover large parts of North america. Mammals conquer the earth. | Cenozoic era |
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Lekha