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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