Transcript Unit 3 - Jeopardy Physical Geography

Grade 9 Academic Geography Unit 3 – Physical Geography Jeopardy
Climate and
Climate Factors
Rock Cycle
Plate
Tectonics
Landforms
Plate
Movement
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Long term variation in
weather
What is CLIMATE?
Rising air currents over a
mountain dropping
precipitation.
What is
Elevation
or
Relief Precipitation?
Causes Lake Effect Snow at
Watertown, New York
What is Proximity to Large
Bodies of Water AND
Prevailing Wind Direction?
Factors that contribute
colder temperatures at the
North Pole
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?
Ways ocean currents move
What are (1) surface winds
pushing water along the
surface and (2) convection
currents of rising hot water
and falling cold water
creating flow?
Three types of rock
What are igneous,
sedimentary and
metamorphic?
The physical process that
caused igneous rock to form
What is cooling?
Rock type characterized by
layers of materials
interlocked together
(e.g., marble)
What is Metamorphic?
This process changes rocks
to magma
What is melting?
Rock type that is sediments
compressed together
What is sedimentary?
This current forms when the
hot magma rises and the cool
magma falls.
What is
Convection Current?
The process in which one
tectonic plate moves under
another tectonic plate.
What is Subduction
Process whereby tectonic
plates are moving away from
each other.
What is Divergence?
The area of the Earth’s core
containing magma.
What is
the Mantle?
The location where two plates
slide past one another.
What is
a Transform Plate Boundary?
Canada`s oldest landform
What is
the Canadian Shield?
Number of lowlands in
Canada
What is three?
Canada`s
smallest landform region.
What is
Great Lakes – St. Lawrence
Lowland?
Number of mountain ranges
in the Western Cordillera
landform region
What is three:
Rocky, Columbia and Coastal
Mountain Ranges?
Canada`s oldest highland
landform region
What is
the Appalachian Mountains?
A fault that runs along the
boundary between two
tectonic plates.
What is a Transform Fault?
Wegener’s theory that the
continents float and move in a
constant motion.
What is
Continental Drift?
Condition in which the Earth's
surface is worn away by
the action of water and
wind
What is EROSION?
The supercontinent that
existed in the Paleozoic era
What is
the Pangaea?
Enormous pressure that
causes the Earth to uplift
and buckle.
What is Folding?