Unit #3 – Chapters 10 – 11 – Review
Geologic History
1. What relationship exists between earthquakes and tectonic plates?
2. How did tectonic forces shape Canada?
3. What processes created the major landform regions of Canada and when were
they created.
4. What happened in the Precambrian Era?
5. What happened in the Paleozoic Era?
6. What happened in the Mesozoic Era?
7. What happened in the Cenozoic Era?
Landform Connections
1. Be able to label a landform map of Canada.
2. Why are all the landforms regions, except the Canadian Shield, mostly made up
of sedimentary rock?
3. Why is the Canadian Shield called the storehouse of Canada’s metallic minerals?
4. How were the Interior Plains formed and how does that contribute to the good
farming and mining activities that take place in this landform region?
5. Why is the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowland region called “Canada’s
industrial and urban heartland”?
6. How were the Innuitian Mountains formed?
7. What are the three western mountain chains?
8. How were the coast mountains formed and how do they differ in composition
from the eastern mountains?
Glaciers
1. How are striations formed? What can they tell us?
2. What is till?
3. What is a moraine and how is it formed?
4. What do drumlins tell us and what are their uses?
5. How are eskers formed?
6. What is an erratic?
The Rock Cycle
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