Grade 9 Geography Unit 4 – Physical Geography Jeopardy

Climate Graphs More Landforms of Canada

Earth Core Rock Cycle Soil

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2

3 3 3 3 3

4 4 4 4 4

5 5 5 5 5

The sum of 12 months of precipitation.

What is Total Annual Precipitation?

The total annual temperature

divided by 12.

What is Average Temperature?

The colder temperature to the warmest temperature.

What is Temperature Range?

The independent variable on a Climate Graph.

What is Month?

The two dependent variables on a Climate Graph

What are Temperature

and Precipitation?

This lowland landform is found in Canada’s north.

What is Hudson Bay – Arctic

Lowlands?

This is Canada’s “smallest landform”

What is Great Lakes – St. Lawrence

Lowland?

This landform contains much of the oil and gas found in

Alberta and Saskatchewan.

What is the Interior Plains?

The reason water does not seep through bedrock in the

Canadian Shield.

What is IMPERVIOUS?

This was Canada’s “first landform”

What is the Canadian Shield?

This current forms when the hot magma rises and the cool

magma falls.

What is Convection Current?

4.7 billion years.

What is the approximate age of the Earth

It surrounds the Inner Core, and it is a liquid layer composed mainly of

iron and nickel

What is the Outer Core?

The area of the Earth’s core containing magma.

What is the Mantle?

This outermost layer of the Earth is between

6 and 100 km thick.

What is the Crust?

Type of rock formed by the cooling of molten rock.

What is IGNEOUS rock?

Formed from older "parent" rock under intense heat

and/or pressure at considerable depths beneath

the earth's surface.

What is METAMORPHIC rock?

Limestone is an example of this type of rock.

What is SEDIMENTARY rock?

The processes that change Igneous rock to sediments

What are Weathering, Erosion and

Deposition?

The physical processes that change either Igneous

Rock or Sedimentary Rock to Metamorphic Rock

What are Heat and Pressure?

Soil containing humus.

What is TOPSOIL?

The downward movement of water in soil.

What is LEACHING?

Solid Rock.

What is BEDROCK?

Air, water, mineral particles and organic matter

What arethe four major components of

soil?

The number of different soil regions in Canada.

What is four.