Q. Why is the interior plains important?
The Interior Plains is known well for its mining due to the large land spread. We also love using it for farming and for growing livestock in the area. Farming consists of wheat, barley, oats, canola, mustard and many more. The livestock grown in the Interior plains consists of cattle, pigs and poultry.
Q. Why are corals so important to a coral reef ecosystem?
Functions of Coral Reefs: Coral reefs are important for many different reasons aside from supposedly containing the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. They: protect coastlines from the damaging effects of wave action and tropical storms. provide habitats and shelter for many marine organisms.
Q. Where the interior plains are today the region was once covered by?
Around 220 MYA, the supercontinent Pangea broke apart and the North American continent began to move west and isolate itself. For much of this period the interior plains were covered by inland seas.
Q. What animals are in the interior plains?
A variety of wildlife can be found throughout the Interior Plains region. Some of the animals include mule deer, pronghorn antelopes, brown bears, wolves, and elks. These animals make this region their home because there is lots of space and food.
Q. Who first lived in the interior plains?
Plains Cree
Q. What is the soil like in the interior plains?
The Interior Plains consists of deep fertile soil due to the waterways and all of the precipitation. In the southern part of this region, no trees exist as there is only grass and herbs.
Q. Why is the sedimentary rock in the interior plains so thick?
The sedimentary rock in the Interior Plains is several thousand metres thick and took millions of years to form. The sediments were eroded from the Canadian Shield and the Rocky Mountains and deposited in the shallow seas that covered the Interior Plains during Paleozoic Era.
Q. In which direction is pressure being exerted Where does the pressure come from?
Fluid pressure has no direction, being a scalar quantity. The forces due to pressure have well-defined directions: they are always exerted perpendicular to any surface. (See the tire in Figure 2, for example.)
Q. Why does the Appalachian region have excellent Harbours?
b) Why does the Appalachian region have many excellent harbours? As the land sank and the glaciers melted, the seas rose and flooded small inlets along the east coast. Long bays that were created provided deep harbours. They resemble the Appalachian Mountains in composition and contain similar types of minerals.
Q. Which landform region is the youngest?
Western Cordillera
- Age- The Western Cordillera is the not only the newest, but the youngest of Canada’s Landform Regions.
- – The Western Cordillera is approximately 80 million years old.
- – It started to form in the Mesozoic era and finished in the Cenozoic era.
- Size- 6 400 km in length.
Q. How do you prove faulting has occurred?
ANSWER: A geologist could prove that faulting has occurred by examining the rock. The sedimentary rock layers on either side of the fault-line have been displaced vertically with respect to one another.
Q. What is a Cirque and what other features does it help form?
A cirque is formed by ice and denotes the head of a glacier. As the ice goes melts and thaws and progressively moves downhill more rock material is scoured out from the cirque creating the characteristic bowl shape. Many cirques are so scoured that a lake forms in the base of the cirque once the ice has melted.
Q. What were the main geological events that occurred in Ontario?
Geology of Ontario
- Location of the Grenville and Superior Craton.
- Onaping Fallback Breccia, polished slab, 15 by 23 cm (6 by 9 in)
- Map of the Mackenzie dike swarm.
- Middle Devonian.
- Ontario Paleoriver in the Devonian.
- The Hudson Bay Lowlands.
- Glacial Lakes.
- Niagara Falls.
Q. What minerals are present in the Arctic lowlands?
The mineral resources include major reserves of oil and natural gas, large quantities of minerals including iron ore, copper, nickle, zinc phosphates and diamonds. Living resources of the Arctic are primarily the abundant fisheries.
Q. What are the physical features of the Arctic lowlands?
The Arctic Lowlands, which form part of the Arctic Archipelago, lie between the Canadian Shield and the Innuitian Region. This region contains lowland plains with glacial moraines in the west and uplands with plateaus and rocky hills in the east.
Q. What is Canada’s largest mineral resource?
The total value of Canada’s mineral production reached $48.2 billion in 2019. Gold was the top-ranked commodity by value of production in Canada in 2019 with a value of $10.3 billion.
