Grade 9 Geography Unit 4 – Physical Geography Jeopardy
Climate Graphs More Landforms of Canada
Earth Core Rock Cycle Soil
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The sum of 12 months of precipitation.
What is Total Annual Precipitation?
The total annual temperature
divided by 12.
What is Average Temperature?
The colder temperature to the warmest temperature.
What is Temperature Range?
The independent variable on a Climate Graph.
The two dependent variables on a Climate Graph
What are Temperature
and Precipitation?
This lowland landform is found in Canada’s north.
What is Hudson Bay – Arctic
Lowlands?
This is Canada’s “smallest landform”
What is Great Lakes – St. Lawrence
Lowland?
This landform contains much of the oil and gas found in
Alberta and Saskatchewan.
What is the Interior Plains?
The reason water does not seep through bedrock in the
Canadian Shield.
What is IMPERVIOUS?
This was Canada’s “first landform”
What is the Canadian Shield?
This current forms when the hot magma rises and the cool
magma falls.
What is Convection Current?
4.7 billion years.
What is the approximate age of the Earth
It surrounds the Inner Core, and it is a liquid layer composed mainly of
iron and nickel
What is the Outer Core?
The area of the Earth’s core containing magma.
What is the Mantle?
This outermost layer of the Earth is between
6 and 100 km thick.
What is the Crust?
Type of rock formed by the cooling of molten rock.
What is IGNEOUS rock?
Formed from older "parent" rock under intense heat
and/or pressure at considerable depths beneath
the earth's surface.
What is METAMORPHIC rock?
Limestone is an example of this type of rock.
What is SEDIMENTARY rock?
The processes that change Igneous rock to sediments
What are Weathering, Erosion and
Deposition?
The physical processes that change either Igneous
Rock or Sedimentary Rock to Metamorphic Rock
What are Heat and Pressure?
Soil containing humus.
The downward movement of water in soil.
What is LEACHING?
Air, water, mineral particles and organic matter
What arethe four major components of
soil?
The number of different soil regions in Canada.