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WorksheetsUnit 2 - Test - Physical Landscapes of Canada
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins
The tectonic plates are moving extremely slowly, approximately at the speed your:
hair is growing
fingernails are growing
car is driving
breath is leaving your lungs
The energy source that moves uneven heated liquid and gas in circular movement is called:
(a)
The place where two different tectonic plates meet is called the:
Supercontinent
Rift valley
Plate boundary
Hotspot
What landforms (pick 1 or more) often occurs on land when divergent plate boundaries pull plates apart?
Mountain ranges
Rift valley
Glaciers
Oceans
The supercontinent that existed about 225 million years ago, containing all of Earth's landmasses, was known as:
Gondwanaland
Laurasia
Pangaea
The Himalayas
Name the 5 spheres learned in class (0.5 mark each). Name what those spheres contain? (Hint: atmosphere is all areas in the air) (0.5 mark each)
Which material makes up the continental crust?
Basalt
Granite
Liquid iron
Magma
Hotspots, such as Hawaii, are examples of what geological phenomenon?
Divergent Boundaries
When subduction collides with convergent boundaries creating glaciers.
Intra-Volcanism
Continental Drift
The magma rising slowly through the mantle that feeds a hotspot is described as having a bulbous head and a long, narrow:
Plume channel
Plume base
Plume tail
Magma reservoir
In the rock cycle, which FOUR processes are responsible for creating sedimentary rocks?
pressure, cooling, melting, erosion
compaction, cementation, weathering, and erosion
melting, heat, pressure, weathering
magma, compaction, erosion, melting
Tropical storms are generally distributed in a band that lies roughly between: (pick 1 or more answers)
The Arctic and Antarctic Circles
the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
The equator and carribean
South eastern and eastern coast of the USA
Which category of tropical storm names is used in North America?
Cyclones
Typhoons
Hurricanes
Willy willies
Which glacial feature is described as a rock randomly placed by a melted glacier that dropped it there?
Erratic
Till
Arête
Kettle Lake
What is this glacial feature?
Till
Convergent boundary
Erratic
Esker
Name this glacier feature.
Esker
U - Shaped valley
Terminal Morraine
V- Shaped Valley
Name the part of the glacier feature that is covered in snow below the pyramidal peak. ALSO, select what this feature will eventually turn into if it melts.
Kettle Lake
U - Shaped Valley
Corrie
Tarn (aka Corrie Lake)
What is this glacial ridge called?
pyramidal peak
arete
esker
erractic
Which morraine is #1 on the diagram?
Lateral Morraine
Medial Moraine
Terminal Morraine
Glacial Morraine
Which morraine is #2 on the diagram?
Lateral Morraine
Medial Moraine
Terminal Morraine
Glacial Morraine
Which morraine is #3 on the diagram?
Lateral Morraine
Medial Moraine
Terminal Morraine
Glacial Morraine
The glacial feature that points with the head of it's tear-shaped hill is called a:
(a)
This is a very simplified version of the rock cycle. Label #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Label #1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 which boundaries these are. BONUS: The 5th one was a word we learned (not a boundary) that started with an S. HINT: One of the boundary is used twice.
Label all 8 glacial features. NOTE: You may not use all of the words in the word bank. You might also use a word more than once.
Word Bank: retreating glacier, advancing glacier, stand-still glacier, convergent boundary, divergent boundary, drumlin, kettle lake, end moraine, kames, esker, and eractic, till, corrie.
Which location in Canada is at the highest risk of experiencing an earthquake? Why? (2 marks)
Explain the difference between a maritime climate and a continental climate. (4 marks)
Mr. Vanceeder really wants to create a “Rok Tok” profile on TikTok. Which ype of rock should he start his TikTok video on? Explain TWO important information ideas about that rock. As well, give an example of a rock type (name of a sedimentary rock) that he could show in the video.
(2 important pieces of information + 1 rock type + 1 example of rock type = 4 marks)
Explain why the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands has some of the best soil for farmland in all of Canada. (2 marks)
Explain which type of climate and use LOWERN (except W) to explain the city of Vancouver, BC.
(6 marks – 5 for LOWRN, 1 type of climate)
1. Explain the climate control that you think most influences climate and weather in our area (Grey-Bruce, Saugeen Shores, Port Elgin, etc.) Explain HOW this climate control affects our climate.
(2 marks – 1 for listing, 1 for explanation) (HINT: Use ONE of the LOWERNs)
The Wilson Cycle specifically describes the periodic process of ocean basins opening up as continents separate and then closing as continents come back together.
When plates move towards each other at convergent boundaries, the resulting volcanoes are generally some of the most explosive.
The core of the earth is extremely hot and heats up the outer crust.
The Inner Core is made of liquid iron and nickel.
When a tropical storm moves over land or cooler latitudes, it strengthens and increases in wind speed.
Collision boundaries, where two continental plates move toward each other, are responsible for creating mountain ranges such as the Himalayas.
Tectonic plates are large, smooth sections of the Earth's surface crust.
For a BONUS mark: Draw your best dinosaur.
Describe in one word how you think you did?
How did you think you did?
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