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.
What is Month?
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.
What is
TOPSOIL?
The downward movement of
water in soil.
What is
LEACHING?
Solid Rock.
What is BEDROCK?
Air, water, mineral particles
and organic matter
What are
the four major components of
soil?
The number of different soil
regions in Canada.
What is four.