WorksheetsAlberta Exploring the Land Chapter 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Can land tell us about the past from millions of years ago?
Yes! The features of the land tell us about what happened long ago.
No! Land does not speak and so can not say anything.
Maybe. Special people can hear stories of the land.
Unsure of whether it can or can't
Does the land and land features change over time (years, decades, milleniums)?
No the land is not changing over time.
Maybe the land can change but only due to dramatic events like earth quakes.
Yes the land is ever evolving and changing.
Not sure if the land is changing or remaining the same.
What type of career (job) studies rocks and formations of the land?
biologist
chemist
archaeologist
geologist
What is a "natural region"?
An area where no people live on it.
An area with its own vegetation, landforms and climate.
An area where lots of people live.
An area where everything remains the same over time.
Name the landform shown in the picture.
waterfall
plains
glacier
plateau
What is the famous landform found in the Rocky Mountain region that supplies fresh water to Alberta's rivers and lakes?
Columbia Icefields
Banff Glacier
Rocky Mountain Icefields
Jasper Glacier
What is a "landscape"?
An area with its own natural vegetation, climate and landforms.
The different features of the land.
The area's throughout Alberta.
The natural scenery of a very large area which has several landforms that create a picturesque scene.
What are "landforms"?
All the things found in Alberta.
The different features of the land.
The natural scenery of a very large area.
A very large area with its own climate and vegetation.
What was the single most important event that created the majority of Alberta's landforms that we see today?
The last ice age
The last Earthquake
The last Tzunami
The last snowstorm
What is it called when the glaciers during the ice age were melting and moving back towards the mountains?
retreating
melting
escaping
carving
As glaciers retreated, they often left mounds of dirt throughout the land that later turned into hills. What are these mounds of glacial dirt called?
hills
moraines
dirt piles
rock collections
"The Big Rock" near Okotoks Alberta is the largest of its kind. What is this landform called?
Gigantic rock
Okotoks Big Rock
Glacial Rock
An erratic
Many of the landforms in Alberta have stories about how they came to be and these are passed on to the next generations through story telling by ...
First Nations people
Calgarians
Albertans
Canadians
Name the landform shown in the picture.
hills
valley
plains
plateau
Name the landform shown in the picture.
glacier
mountain
hoodoo
coulee
Name the landform shown in the picture.
coulee
valley
hoodoo
mountain
Name the landform shown in the picture.
plains
hills
plateau
valley
Name the landform shown in the picture.
glacier
valley
mountain
plateau
Name the landform shown in the picture.
cliff
coulee
plateau
valley
Name the landform shown in the picture.
tundra
wetlands
coulee
plains
