Categorie: Tutti - landforms - glaciers - tectonics - geology

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phyical geography

The study of physical geography encompasses various aspects of the Earth's structure and processes. Central to this field are plate tectonics, where the movement and interaction of tectonic plates such as the Pacific Plate and North American Plate shape the Earth'

phyical geography

phyical geography

plate tectonics

lithosphere, crust, mantle, core
San andras fault is where the north american and pacific glide the most horizontally
pacific plate, north american, Eurasian, Caribbean, south american plate
continental drift
Alfred Wagner theory
pangea gondwanana Eurasia

geological eras

Precambrian era divided into Proterozoic Archean Hadean,
Precambrian era most activity

land form regions

western cordillera west coast, forestry with mountains and peaks created when pacific plate crashed with north american plate created in the Mesozoic and ended Cenozoic great for farming plants and vegs also trees wet climate
hudson bay lowlands
artic lowlands
innaution mountains
great lakes st Lawrence lowlands
Appalachian mountains
Canadian shield
western cordillera

rocks

igneous weather erode turns to sediment compact cementation
Igneous heat and pressure turn to metamorphic
sedimentary
igneous
metamorphic

glaciers

interglacial period when ice of glaciers melt not completely
alpine glaciers
continental near poles size of continents