1. Grade 9 Academic Geography Unit 3 – Physical Geography Jeopardy Climate and Climate Factors Rock CyclePlate Tectonics LandformsPlate Movement 11111 22222 33333 44444 55555

2. Long term variation in weather

3. What is CLIMATE?

4. Rising air currents over a mountain dropping precipitation.

5. What is Elevation or Relief Precipitation?

6. Causes Lake Effect Snow at Watertown, New York

7. What is Proximity to Large Bodies of Water AND Prevailing Wind Direction?

8. Factors that contribute colder temperatures at the North Pole

9. 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?

10. Ways ocean currents move

11. What are (1) surface winds pushing water along the surface and (2) convection currents of rising hot water and falling cold water creating flow?

12. Three types of rock

13. What are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic?

14. The physical process that caused igneous rock to form

15. What is cooling?

16. Rock type characterized by layers of materials interlocked together (e.g., marble)

17. What is Metamorphic?

18. This process changes rocks to magma

19. What is melting?

20. Rock type that is sediments compressed together

21. What is sedimentary?

22. This current forms when the hot magma rises and the cool magma falls.

23. What is Convection Current?

24. The process in which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate.

25. What is Subduction

26. Process whereby tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

27. What is Divergence?

28. The area of the Earth’s core containing magma.

29. What is the Mantle?

30. The location where two plates slide past one another.

31. What is a Transform Plate Boundary?

32. Canada`s oldest landform

33. What is the Canadian Shield?

34. Number of lowlands in Canada

35. What is three?

36. Canada`s smallest landform region.

37. What is Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowland?

38. Number of mountain ranges in the Western Cordillera landform region

39. What is three: Rocky, Columbia and Coastal Mountain Ranges?

40. Canada`s oldest highland landform region

41. What is the Appalachian Mountains?

42. A fault that runs along the boundary between two tectonic plates.

43. What is a Transform Fault?

44. Wegener’s theory that the continents float and move in a constant motion.

45. What is Continental Drift?

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

47. What is EROSION?

48. The supercontinent that existed in the Paleozoic era

49. What is the Pangaea?

50. Enormous pressure that causes the Earth to uplift and buckle.

51. What is Folding?