Grade 9 Geography Unit 4 – Physical Geography Jeopardy Climate FactorsLandforms of Canada Plates and Drift Geological History Precipitation
The further north or south you go, the colder it becomes.
What is Latitude?
The higher you climb, the colder it becomes.
What is Altitude?
The term used to describe the ability of water to retain heat.
What is Heat Capacity?
It is the side of a mountain where air rises and cools, and water condenses and falls back to earth as rain or snow.
What is Windward?
It is the reason Watertown, NY gets more snow than Kingston, Ontario even though Kingston is further north.
What is Lake Effect Snow?
This landform covers more than 50% of Canada
What is the Canadian Shield?
These five lakes were formed by continental glaciation
What are the Great Lakes?
Over 50% of Canada’s population live in this landform.
What is Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowland?
This landform consists of three mountain ranges including the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Western Cordillera?
This landform has the nickname “Canada’s breadbasket”
What is the Interior Plains?
The temperature is about 4,800 O C. The pressure is over 3.6 million times the pressure at the Earth’s surface. Gravity is ZERO.
What is the centre of the Earth?
Wegener proposed this theory to explain the shape of the Earth’s land masses.
What is Continental Drift?
One large land mass
What is Pangaea?
The movement of the Earth’s plates by convection currents in the semi-molten layer of the Mantle
What is Plate Tectonics?
Constantly changing due to forces such as erosion and deposition, this outermost layer of the Earth is between 6 and 100 km thick.
What is the Crust?
Called the Age of Mammals, we live in this short and most recent Geological Era.
What is Cenozoic?
Canada’s oldest landform, the Canadian Shield, was formed in this ancient Geological Era.
What is Precambrian?
Divided into three periods called Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous, it is the Geological Era of the dinosaur.
What is Mesozoic?
4.6 billion years
What is the age of the Earth?
The period represents 87% of Earth’s geological time, and during this period, Earth’s atmosphere began to convert from carbon dioxide and methane to oxygen
What is the Precambrian?
The type of precipitation that occurs when warm moist air is forced to rise over large mountains.
What is Orographic or Relief Precipitation?
This type of precipitation occurs when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass.
What is Frontal or Cyclonic Precipitation?
This occurred when a large cyclonic storm stalled over Eastern Ontario and Quebec in 1998.
What is the 1998 Ice Storm?
This precipitation occurs when air is heated over warm land resulting in the air rising
What is Convection Precipitation?
This type of precipitation is the most commonly occurring type in Kingston.
What is Convection Precipitation?