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

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.

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Flip Cards – Grade 9 Geography

Question 1

It is the study of the Earth that defines and describes natural and human-made features.


Answer 1

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?”


Answer 2

Greenhouse Effect


Question 3

What is the number of people per square

kilometer of area?


Answer 3

Population Density


Question 4

What is “…an energy supply that is capable of quickly replacing itself?”


Answer 4

Renewable Resource


Question 5

Factors that may attract immigrants to move to a new region or country?

Answer 5

Pull Factors


Question 6

A comparison of measurement on a map to the actual distance on the Earth’s surface


Answer 6

Scale


Question 7

What does a map scale of 1:100,000 mean?


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?


Answer 8

North-West Quadrant


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?


Answer 9

Ecological Footprint


Question 10

Birth Rate – Death Rate


Answer 10

Natural Rate of Increase


Question 11

What is Dependency Load?


Answer 11

Percentage of a country’s population aged between 0-15 and over 65 who rely on

others for their survival


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


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.”


Answer 13

Adult Literacy Rate

NOTE: Canada’s ALR is 99% according to

the UN census


Question 14

The biological variety of living things in a given area is…


Answer 14

Biodiversity


Question 15

What is

“…a large geographical area in which human activities interact with the

natural world?”

HINT:

Canada has 15 terrestrial areas


Answer 15

Ecozone


Question 16

What is

“…the thin and hard outer crust of the Earth…” called?


Answer 16

Lithosphere


Question 17

What is

“…the study of plate movements to understand the formation of mountains, earthquakes and

volcanoes?”


Answer 17

Plate Tectonics


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).


Answer 18

Topographic Map


Question 19

What is

“…a long-term warming trend caused by anthropogenic changes to Greenhouse Gas concentrations

in Earth’s atmosphere?”


Answer 19

Global Warming


Question 20

What is

“…the average weather conditions at a certain place or region over a long

period of time?”


Answer 20

Climate


Question 21

What is

“…the distribution of human features on the surface of the Earth?”


Answer 21

Human Geography


Question 22

A horizontal bar graph that illustrates the gender and age distribution of a population (most often a country)


Answer 22

Population Pyramid


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


Answer 23

Greenhouse Effect


Question 24

The distance

in degrees in one time zone


Answer 24

15O

360O in a circle

Earth rotates once every 24 hours

360/24 = 15


Question 25

Type of graph that shows the percentage on one part in

relationship to the whole (100%)


Answer 25

Pie Chart


Question 26

Daily conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind, humidity, cloud cover, etc. in the atmosphere for a

specific location


Answer 26

Weather


Question 27

What is

“…the name of the supercontinent that existed over 200 million years ago?”


Answer 27

Pangea


Question 28

Formed during the Precambrian era, it is Canada’s oldest landform region


Answer 28

Canadian Shield


Question 29

(1) Proximity to a large body of water plus prevailing wind direction

(2) Ocean currents

(3) Altitude

(4) Latitude


Answer 29

Factors that

determine climate for

a given region


Question 30

(1)Place, (2) Location, (3) Region,

(4) Movement and

(5) Human-Environment Interactions


Answer 30

Themes of 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


Answer 31

Climate Graph


Question 32

Type of map that shows a particular feature (e.g., population distribution,

vegetation cover)


Answer 32

Thematic Map


Question 33

(1)Jigsaw shape of Western Africa and eastern South America

(2) Same fossils on different continents

(3) Remnant snow in regions near equator

(4) Same rock formations in Scotland and Appalachian Region of North

America


Answer 33

Clues used by Alfred Wegener to

hypothesize about Continental Drift


Question 34

Precambrian

Paleozoic

Mesozoic

Cenozoic


Answer 34

Earth’s

four Geological Eras

in order of

oldest to youngest


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?


Answer 35

0.4 km

--

40,000 cm


Question 36

What is

Canada’s most westerly Time Zone?


Answer 36

Pacific Time Zone


Question 37

A graph that shows a

relationship between the independent variable (x) and the

dependent variable (y)


Answer 37

Scatterplot


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?


Answer 38

1221 km

11 Lines of Latitude between 49 and 60

Distance between two lines in 111 km

11 x 111 = 1221


Question 39

It is 9:00 pm in Kingston

(Eastern Time Zone)

What time is it in Gander, Newfoundland

(Newfoundland Standard Time Zone)?


Answer 39

10:30 p.m.


Question 40

Line of Longitude that passes through Greenwich, England.

It is considered 0 East-West


Answer 40

Prime Meridian


Question 41

Statistical study of human populations


Answer 41

Demography


Question 42

A person who permanently moves away from a country


Answer 42

Emigrant


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)?”


Answer 43

Life Expectancy


Question 44

An energy source such as coal, oil or natural gas that formed from the

ancient remains of once-living, carbon-based organisms


Answer 44

Fossil Fuel


Question 45

To flee and leave one’s country for fear of persecution


Answer 45

Refugee


Question 46

Carbon dioxide (CO2)

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)

Methane (CH4)

Ozone (O3)

Water Vapour (H20)


Answer 46

Greenhouse Gases


Question 47

Weathering or wearing down of the Earth’s surface by water, ice, wind,

plant roots and mammals


Answer 47

Erosion


Question 48

What is

“…the act of one country settling another place to become the new

rulers?”


Answer 48

Colonization


Question 49

(1) Stable

(2) Expanding

(3) Shrinking

(4) Stationary


Answer 49

Four types of

Population Pyramids


Question 50

The potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which

includes ecological, economic, political and cultural dimensions


Answer 50

Sustainability

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