Physical Processes

Wearing Down

Building Up

The Rock Cycle

IGNEOUS ROCKS

formed when magma is cooled

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

preservs fosoles

METAMORPHIC ROCKS

heat and presher forms this type of rock

Factors that Affect Canada’s Climate

Ocean Currents

Latitude

Wind Direction

Elevation

Relief

Near Water

Climate Graphs

PRECIPITATION

TEMPERATURE

Plate Tectonics

Divergent boundary

builds oceans

Convergent boundary

builds mountains

Transform boundary

No obvious landscape

Glaciation

Alpine

theas form into rivers that flow betwen the mountans

Continental

the ice flows and shapes the landscape arond it

Natural Hazards and Disasters

GEOLOGIC

movements of the Earth

CLIMATIC

changes in the atmosphere

Physical Geog. and the Impacts on the Earth

Abiotic

factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity

Biotic

factors include plants, animals, and other organisms.

soils

top soil

the top level of soil whare thing grow

subsoil

the mid level of soil

parent matereal

the lowst level of soil

Vegetation Regions of Canada

Coniferous

boreal forest

Deciduous

GLSLL

Grasslands

Prairies

Moss & Lichen

Arctic