Foothills Region Review #2

What natural resource helped to build Nordegg?

• Oil

• Hunting

• Coal

• Water

What natural resource helped to build Swan Hills?

• Oil

• Hunting

• Coal

• Water

What natural resource makes up the northern foothills?

• Deciduous trees, like lodgepole pine, spruce, and fir trees.

• Coniferous trees, like lodgepole pine, spruce, and fir trees.

• Coniferous tress, like like poplar, aspen, willow, and birch.

• Deciduous trees, like poplar, aspen, willow, and birch.

What are coniferous trees?

• Trees with pine cones. They are green all year.

• Trees that that need a lot of care and warmth.

• Trees that are cold, and are in the forest.

• Trees that die and lose their leaves int he fall.

What are deciduous trees?

• Trees with pine cones. They are green all year.

• Trees that that need a lot of care and warmth.

• Trees that are cold, and are in the forest.

• Trees that die and lose their leaves in the fall.

What is a unique type of weather in this region, which means "Snow Eater"?

• Chinooks - warm winds that come from the Pacific Ocean.

• Permafrost - ground that stays frozen all year.

• Hoodoos - Strange pillars made from rain and snow and wind.

• Ice roads - lakes that become roads in the wintertime.

What are some landforms in this area? (Choose all that apply)

• Forested Hills.

• Hoodoos.

• Broad river valleys called coulees.

• Rolling grasslands.

• Mountains.

This is one of the bodies of water in the Foothills Region

• Elbow River

• South Saskatchewan River

• Brazeau River

• Milk River

The summers in the Foothills are:

• Long, Hot, Sweaty. Is this Hawaii??

• Short and wet - rain!

• It's winter all year long.

• Short and dry - wind!

What has an impact on the climate in the Foothills region?

• The Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky Mountains

• The Rocky Mountains

• The Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

• The Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains