Grade 9 Academic Geography Unit 3 – Physical Geography Jeopardy

Climate and Climate Factors

Rock Cycle Plate Tectonics

Landforms Plate Movement

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2

3 3 3 3 3

4 4 4 4 4

5 5 5 5 5

Long term variation in weather

What is CLIMATE?

Rising air currents over a mountain dropping

precipitation.

What is Elevation

or Relief Precipitation?

Causes Lake Effect Snow at Watertown, New York

What is Proximity to Large Bodies of Water AND

Prevailing Wind Direction?

Factors that contribute colder temperatures at the

North Pole

What are (1) curved shape of the Earth, (2) latitude and the size of the land mass to be heated and (3) volume of

atmosphere heat must pass through to reach Earth is

greater at North Pole?

Ways ocean currents move

What are (1) surface winds pushing water along the

surface and (2) convection currents of rising hot water

and falling cold water creating flow?

Three types of rock

What are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic?

The physical process that caused igneous rock to form

What is cooling?

Rock type characterized by layers of materials

interlocked together (e.g., marble)

What is Metamorphic?

This process changes rocks to magma

What is melting?

Rock type that is sediments compressed together

What is sedimentary?

This current forms when the hot magma rises and the cool

magma falls.

What is Convection Current?

The process in which one tectonic plate moves under

another tectonic plate.

What is Subduction

Process whereby tectonic plates are moving away from

each other.

What is Divergence?

The area of the Earth’s core containing magma.

What is the Mantle?

The location where two plates slide past one another.

What is a Transform Plate Boundary?

Canada`s oldest landform

What is the Canadian Shield?

Number of lowlands in Canada

What is three?

Canada`s smallest landform region.

What isGreat Lakes – St. Lawrence

Lowland?

Number of mountain ranges in the Western Cordillera

landform region

What is three: Rocky, Columbia and Coastal

Mountain Ranges?

Canada`s oldest highland landform region

What isthe Appalachian Mountains?

A fault that runs along the boundary between two

tectonic plates.

What is a Transform Fault?

Wegener’s theory that the continents float and move in a

constant motion.

What is Continental Drift?

Condition in which the Earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and

wind

What is EROSION?

The supercontinent that existed in the Paleozoic era

What is the Pangaea?

Enormous pressure that causes the Earth to uplift

and buckle.

What is Folding?