GROUP D. THE LAND 

 A nswer three questions from this group 



8. Describe briefly the agencies in operation in the formation of (a) residual 



soils, (b) transported soils. 



9. Locate two extensive ice-sheets of the present day and two of former times. 



State some of the effects of these vanished ice-sheets that have an important 

 influence on human settlement or industry. 



10. Describe the St. Lawrence system. In what stage of development is it? 



State clearly three ways in which this drainage system has been of decided 

 geographic influence. 



11. Where are active volcanoes found in North America? In Europe? What 



results of volcanic activity are found: 



(a) In the region of the Columbia River Plateau ? 



(b) In the Yellowstone National Park ? 



(c) In the Cascade Range ? 



12. Define ten of the following : tornado, convection, insolation, relative humidity, 



moraine, meander, natural levee, bore, stalactite, artesian well, lava, fiord. 



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