Flip Cards
Grade 9 Geography – Exam Review
One option to practice recall for a test or exam is Flip Cards. Cards may be
effective as a study tool when a number of facts or definitions must be
memorized.
The following information is a set of Power Point electronic Flip Cards for
the Grade 9 Geography course. To “run” the cards, use the dropdown
“Slide Show” menu and, if appropriate, click “View Show.” Each definition
has a blue background. It is followed by the corresponding answer on a
green background. To go to the next screen, you simply push return. The
“End Show” button at the bottom of the screen stops the program. Another
option is to simply scroll through the cards.
If Flip Cards work for you (i.e., you learn the definitions via this tool), you
may wish to make your own cards for the other science units.
Have fun…engage and learn.
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 1
It is the study of the Earth that
defines and describes natural
and human-made features.
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 1
Geography
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 2
It is “…the natural process by which the
temperature of the troposphere (lower
altitude) of the Earth increases when
gases in the atmosphere capture and reradiate heat back towards Earth?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 2
Greenhouse Effect
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 3
What is the number of people per
square kilometer of area?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 3
Population Density
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 4
What is “…an energy supply that is
capable of quickly replacing itself?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 4
Renewable Resource
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 5
Factors that may attract immigrants to
move to a new region or country?
Answer 5
Pull Factors
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 6
A comparison of measurement
on a map to the actual distance
on the Earth’s surface
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 6
Scale
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 7
What does a map scale of
1:100,000 mean?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 7
For every 1 cm on the map,
You will travel 100,000 cm on the
actual ground
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography of Canada
Question 8
You are given the following latitudelongitudinal coordinates:
60O15’ N and 135O 45’ W
In which quadrant of the world are you?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 8
North-West Quadrant
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 9
What is “…the amount of productive
land needed to provide you with the
resources you need to survive…”
and
measured as hectares of land
needed?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 9
Ecological Footprint
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 10
Birth Rate – Death Rate
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 10
Natural Rate of Increase
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 11
What is Dependency Load?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 11
Percentage of a country’s
population aged between 015 and over 65 who rely on
others for their survival
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 12
What is the theory that the continents we
once joined as one large super-continent
and, over time, the continents moved
apart?
Flip Cards – Grade Geography
Answer 12
Theory of Continental Drift
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 13
A measure of the UN’s Human
Development Index (HDI) that is the
“percentage of a population over 15
years old who can read and write at a
basic level of understanding.”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 13
Adult Literacy Rate
NOTE:
Canada’s ALR is 99% according to
the UN census
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 14
The biological variety of living things in
a given area is…
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 14
Biodiversity
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 15
What is
“…a large geographical area in which
human activities interact with the
natural world?”
HINT:
Canada has 15 terrestrial areas
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 15
Ecozone
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 16
What is
“…the thin and hard outer crust of the
Earth…” called?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 16
Lithosphere
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 17
What is
“…the study of plate movements to
understand the formation of
mountains, earthquakes and
volcanoes?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 17
Plate Tectonics
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 18
The type of map that shows
detailed physical features (e.g.,
rivers, elevation using contour
lines) and human features (e.g.,
buildings, bridges).
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 18
Topographic Map
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 19
What is
“…a long-term warming trend
caused by anthropogenic changes
to Greenhouse Gas concentrations
in Earth’s atmosphere?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 19
Global Warming
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 20
What is
“…the average weather conditions at
a certain place or region over a long
period of time?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 20
Climate
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 21
What is
“…the distribution of human features
on the surface of the Earth?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 21
Human Geography
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 22
A horizontal bar graph that illustrates
the gender and age distribution of a
population (most often a country)
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 22
Population Pyramid
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 23
It is the process by which the air
temperature in the troposphere (i.e.,
lower atmosphere level) increases
when gases in the atmosphere trap
and react with radiant energy
reflected off the surface of the Earth
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 23
Greenhouse Effect
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 24
The distance
in degrees in one time zone
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 24
O
15
360O in a circle
Earth rotates once every 24 hours
360/24 = 15
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 25
Type of graph that shows the
percentage on one part in
relationship to the whole (100%)
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 25
Pie Chart
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 26
Daily conditions of temperature,
precipitation, wind, humidity, cloud
cover, etc. in the atmosphere for a
specific location
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 26
Weather
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 27
What is
“…the name of the supercontinent that
existed over 200 million years ago?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 27
Pangea
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 28
Formed during the Precambrian era,
it is Canada’s oldest landform region
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 28
Canadian Shield
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 29
(1) Proximity to a large body of water
plus prevailing wind direction
(2) Ocean currents
(3) Altitude
(4) Latitude
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 29
Factors that
determine climate for
a given region
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 30
(1)Place, (2) Location, (3) Region,
(4) Movement and
(5) Human-Environment Interactions
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 30
Themes of Geography
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 31
A standard graph that uses bars to
show average monthly precipitation
and a line to show average monthly
temperatures for a location over one
year
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 31
Climate Graph
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 32
Type of map that shows a particular
feature (e.g., population distribution,
vegetation cover)
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 32
Thematic Map
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 33
(1)Jigsaw shape of Western Africa and
eastern South America
(2) Same fossils on different continents
(3) Remnant snow in regions near
equator
(4) Same rock formations in Scotland
and Appalachian Region of North
America
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 33
Clues used by Alfred Wegener
to
hypothesize about
Continental Drift
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 34
Precambrian
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 34
Earth’s
four Geological Eras
in order of
oldest to youngest
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 35
A map shows a scale of 1:5,000
What is the actual distance (Ground
Distance) if the Map Distance is 8
cm?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 35
0.4 km
-40,000 cm
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 36
What is
Canada’s most westerly Time Zone?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 36
Pacific Time Zone
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 37
A graph that shows a
relationship between the
independent variable (x) and the
dependent variable (y)
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 37
Scatterplot
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 38
The distance between two lines of
latitude is 111 km.
You drive south from the border
between NWT and Saskatchewan at
60ON to the USA border at 49ON.
How far in kilometers do you drive?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 38
1221 km
11 Lines of Latitude between 49 and 60
Distance between two lines in 111 km
11 x 111 = 1221
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 39
It is 9:00 pm in Kingston
(Eastern Time Zone)
What time is it in Gander, Newfoundland
(Newfoundland Standard Time Zone)?
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 39
10:30 p.m.
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 40
Line of Longitude that passes
through Greenwich, England.
It is considered 0 East-West
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 40
Prime Meridian
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 41
Statistical study of human populations
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 41
Demography
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 42
A person who permanently moves
away from a country
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 42
Emigrant
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 43
It is one of the three measures of the
UN’s Human Development Index (HDI).
What is
“the average number of years that a
person in a given country may expect to
live (i.e., years from birth to death)?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 43
Life Expectancy
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 44
An energy source such as coal, oil or
natural gas that formed from the
ancient remains of once-living,
carbon-based organisms
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 44
Fossil Fuel
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 45
To flee and leave one’s country for
fear of persecution
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 45
Refugee
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 46
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)
Methane (CH4)
Ozone (O3)
Water Vapour (H20)
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 46
Greenhouse Gases
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 47
Weathering or wearing down of the
Earth’s surface by water, ice, wind,
plant roots and mammals
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 47
Erosion
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 48
What is
“…the act of one country settling
another place to become the new
rulers?”
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 48
Colonization
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 49
(1) Stable
(2) Expanding
(3) Shrinking
(4) Stationary
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 49
Four types of
Population Pyramids
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Question 50
The potential for long-term
maintenance of well being, which
includes ecological, economic,
political and cultural dimensions
Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography
Answer 50
Sustainability