Grade 9 Geography Unit 4

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