Categories: All - hazards - rocks - vegetation - climate

by william conway 3 years ago

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Physical Processes

The study of physical geography involves understanding various earth processes and their impacts. The rock cycle categorizes rocks into metamorphic, formed by heat and pressure; igneous, formed from cooled magma; and sedimentary, which preserve fossils.

Physical Processes

Physical Processes

Vegetation Regions of Canada

Moss & Lichen
Arctic
Grasslands
Prairies
Deciduous
GLSLL
Coniferous
boreal forest

soils

parent matereal
the lowst level of soil
subsoil
the mid level of soil
top soil
the top level of soil whare thing grow

Physical Geog. and the Impacts on the Earth

Biotic
factors include plants, animals, and other organisms.
Abiotic
factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity

Natural Hazards and Disasters

CLIMATIC
changes in the atmosphere
GEOLOGIC
movements of the Earth

Glaciation

Continental
the ice flows and shapes the landscape arond it
Alpine
theas form into rivers that flow betwen the mountans

Plate Tectonics

Transform boundary
No obvious landscape
Convergent boundary
builds mountains
Divergent boundary
builds oceans

Climate Graphs

TEMPERATURE
PRECIPITATION

Factors that Affect Canada’s Climate

Near Water
Relief
Elevation
Wind Direction
Latitude
Ocean Currents

The Rock Cycle

METAMORPHIC ROCKS
heat and presher forms this type of rock
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
preservs fosoles
IGNEOUS ROCKS
formed when magma is cooled
Building Up
Wearing Down