Geo Final Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What uses most of the world's fresh water? | Agriculture |
Biggest earthquakes occur along | Subduction zones- Andes, Japan |
Continental drift is caused by | Convection in the asthenosphere |
Cloud identification | Cumulonimbus- thunderstorms |
Low pressure | Doldrums/inter tropical convergence zone/equator/0 degrees |
Flora and Fauna | Plants and animals |
Folding results in | Synclines and anticlines |
Frost shattering causes problems with | Road construction, many roads up north are gravel |
Graben | A depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults |
Horst | A horst represents a block pushed upward by the faulting |
Hurricane | Low pressure, warm air picks up moisture over ocean |
Polar regions | High pressure |
Satellites | Used for weather forecasting |
Study of weather | Meteorology |
Thermal power stations | Burn coal -non-renwable |
Troposphere | Where most weather occurs |
Westerlies | Prevailing winds along BC coast |
Tornado | mT air is surrounded by cP air, big pressure difference causes warm air to rise violently |
Boreal/Coniferous | BC, NWT, YT, NFL, northern regions of all provinces |
Temperate grassland | Southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba |
Tundra | Northern NWT, Yukon |
Temperate deciduous forest | Southern Ontario, Quebec, Maritimes except NFL |
Tropical Rainforest | High temps and rainfall RF over 2,000 mm p.a. laterite soils greatest biodiversity/genetic diversity Hardwoods-mahogany, ebony latex deforestation |
Temperate grassland/continental interior | warm summer, cold winter large temp range summer rainfall convectional rain snow in winter (NH) chernozem soils short grass, scattered trees wheat/canola.corn/cattle |
Mediterranean/schlerophyll | warm summer, mild winter winter rain summer drought laterite soils schlerophyll/maquis/chapparal leaves small, leathery, waxy vinyards, citrus, olives |
Monsoon | hot, wet season cool, dry season summer price very high laterite soils broadleaved deciduous hardwoods-teak deforestation |
Tropical rainforest temp | high temps+rain |
Mediterranean temp | winter rain, summer drought |
Prairie temp | summer rain, large temp range |
Monsoon temp | hot wet season, cooler dry season |
Tropical grasslands temp | hot summer, warm winter, summer convectional rain |
Tundra temp | long cold winter, short cool summer |
Desert temp | rainfall 250-500 mm p.a. |
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lcampbel
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