Canada: Physical Interactions
Supporting provincial and territorial geography and social studies courses and home schooling from coast to coast to coast, including CGC-1D in Ontario
Interactive gSlide set with maps of Landforms, Climate, Vegetation, Permafrost, Ecozones AND Climate Graphs from across Canada.
Canada: Relief Map (1.6mb)
(Wiki - more sizes)
Online Topographic Maps of Canada
matched with Google Earth links
to build your map-reading skills
Formation of North America
Video 1:24
Landform Regions
Climate Regions
→ go to Compare Climate Graphs
Climate Influences – LOWERN
LOWERN = Latitude, Ocean Currents, Winds & Air Masses, Elevation, Relief, Nearness to Water
What factors affect temperature?
(Geographer Online 6:54)
GeoHazards: Earthquakes, Climate, and Weather Hazards
Hurricanes
Earthquakes
Tornadoes
Tornadoes 1980-2009
(Provincial Maps)
Volcanoes
Formation of Canada and North America
Cretaceous Q & A: Why are there so many dinosaur fossils in Alberta? (Royal Tyrrell Museum 2:1()
Where terranes collide
The Geology of Western Canada (Geology: 25min)
Appalachian Highlands
Formation of the Appalachian Mountains 480mya to 270mya (EARTH Magazine)
Formation of the Appalachian Mountains with captions ( Living Earth)
Western Cordillera
Formation of the Rocky Mountains
Wiki
How the Rocky Mountains Formed
1:04
Formation of British Columbia
QMI - 3:29
Terrane Accretion on BC and Yukon
OpenText-BC - Western Canada during the Mesozoic
Formation of the Rocky Mountains
OpenText-BC - Western Canada during the Mesozoic
Juan de Fuca Plate
off Vancouver, BC, Canada and the Pacific NW, USA
USGS
Deglaciation of North America
For more, see Continental Glaciation North America →
and Alpine Glaciation →