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 re-radiate 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 latitude-longitudinal 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 0-15 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 15O 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 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 Jigsaw shape of Western Africa and eastern South America Same fossils on different continents Remnant snow in regions near equator 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 Stable Expanding Shrinking 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