Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

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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.
• Have funengage and learn.

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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.

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 1
• Geography

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Flip Cards Grade 9 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?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 2
• Greenhouse Effect

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 3
• What is the number of people per square kilometer
  of area?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 3
• Population Density

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 4
• What is an energy supply that is capable of
  quickly replacing itself?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 4
• Renewable Resource

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 5
• Factors that may attract immigrants to move to a
  new region or country?

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• Answer 5
• Pull Factors

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 6
• A comparison of measurement on a map to the
  actual distance on the Earths surface

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 6
• Scale

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 7
• What does a map scale of 1100,000 mean?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 7
• For every 1 cm on the map,
• You will travel 100,000 cm on the actual ground

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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?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 8
• North-West Quadrant

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• 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?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 9
• Ecological Footprint

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 10
• Birth Rate Death Rate

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 10
• Natural Rate of Increase

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 11
• What is Dependency Load?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 11
• Percentage of a countrys population aged between
  0-15 and over 65 who rely on others for their
  survival

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 12
• What is the theory that the continents we once
  joined as one large super-continent and, over
  time, the continents moved apart?

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Flip Cards Grade Geography

• Answer 12
• Theory of Continental Drift

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 13
• A measure of the UNs 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.

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 13
• Adult Literacy Rate
• NOTE
• Canadas ALR is 99 according to the UN census

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 14
• The biological variety of living things in a
  given area is

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 14
• Biodiversity

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 15
• What is
• a large geographical area in which human
  activities interact with the natural world?
• HINT
• Canada has 15 terrestrial areas

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 15
• Ecozone

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 16
• What is
• the thin and hard outer crust of the Earth
  called?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 16
• Lithosphere

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 17
• What is
• the study of plate movements to understand the
  formation of mountains, earthquakes and
  volcanoes?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 17
• Plate Tectonics

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• 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).

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 18
• Topographic Map

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 19
• What is
• a long-term warming trend caused by
  anthropogenic changes to Greenhouse Gas
  concentrations in Earths atmosphere?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 19
• Global Warming

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 20
• What is
• the average weather conditions at a certain
  place or region over a long period of time?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 20
• Climate

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 21
• What is
• the distribution of human features on the
  surface of the Earth?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 21
• Human Geography

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 22
• A horizontal bar graph that illustrates the
  gender and age distribution of a population (most
  often a country)

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 22
• Population Pyramid

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• 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

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 23
• Greenhouse Effect

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 24
• The distance
• in degrees in one time zone

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 24
• 15O
• 360O in a circle
• Earth rotates once every 24 hours
• 360/24 15

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 25
• Type of graph that shows the percentage on one
  part in relationship to the whole (100)

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 25
• Pie Chart

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 26
• Daily conditions of temperature, precipitation,
  wind, humidity, cloud cover, etc. in the
  atmosphere for a specific location

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 26
• Weather

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 27
• What is
• the name of the supercontinent that existed
  over 200 million years ago?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 27
• Pangea

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 28
• Formed during the Precambrian era, it is Canadas
  oldest landform region

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 28
• Canadian Shield

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 29
• (1) Proximity to a large body of water plus
  prevailing wind direction
• (2) Ocean currents
• (3) Altitude
• (4) Latitude

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 29
• Factors that
• determine climate for
• a given region

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 30
• Place, (2) Location, (3) Region,
• (4) Movement and
• (5) Human-Environment Interactions

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 30
• Themes of Geography

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Flip Cards Grade 9 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

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 31
• Climate Graph

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 32
• Type of map that shows a particular feature
  (e.g., population distribution, vegetation cover)

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 32
• Thematic Map

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 33
• Jigsaw shape of Western Africa and eastern South
  America
• Same fossils on different continents
• Remnant snow in regions near equator
• Same rock formations in Scotland and Appalachian
  Region of North America

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 33
• Clues used by Alfred Wegener to
• hypothesize about Continental Drift

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 34
• Precambrian
• Paleozoic
• Mesozoic
• Cenozoic

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 34
• Earths
• four Geological Eras
• in order of
• oldest to youngest

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 35
• A map shows a scale of 15,000
• What is the actual distance (Ground Distance) if
  the Map Distance is 8 cm?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 35
• 0.4 km
• --
• 40,000 cm

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 36
• What is
• Canadas most westerly Time Zone?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 36
• Pacific Time Zone

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 37
• A graph that shows a
• relationship between the independent variable (x)
  and the dependent variable (y)

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 37
• Scatterplot

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• 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?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 38
• 1221 km
• 11 Lines of Latitude between 49 and 60
• Distance between two lines in 111 km
• 11 x 111 1221

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 39
• It is 900 pm in Kingston
• (Eastern Time Zone)
• What time is it in Gander, Newfoundland
• (Newfoundland Standard Time Zone)?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 39
• 1030 p.m.

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 40
• Line of Longitude that passes through Greenwich,
  England.
• It is considered 0 East-West

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 40
• Prime Meridian

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 41
• Statistical study of human populations

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• Answer 41
• Demography

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 42
• A person who permanently moves away from a
  country

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• Answer 42
• Emigrant

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 43
• It is one of the three measures of the UNs 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)?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 43
• Life Expectancy

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 44
• An energy source such as coal, oil or natural gas
  that formed from the ancient remains of
  once-living, carbon-based organisms

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 44
• Fossil Fuel

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 45
• To flee and leave ones country for fear of
  persecution

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• Answer 45
• Refugee

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 46
• Carbon dioxide (CO2)
• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)
• Methane (CH4)
• Ozone (O3)
• Water Vapour (H20)

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• Answer 46
• Greenhouse Gases

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 47
• Weathering or wearing down of the Earths surface
  by water, ice, wind, plant roots and mammals

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• Answer 47
• Erosion

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 48
• What is
• the act of one country settling another place
  to become the new rulers?

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Answer 48
• Colonization

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• Question 49
• Stable
• Expanding
• Shrinking
• Stationary

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• Answer 49
• Four types of
• Population Pyramids

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Flip Cards Grade 9 Geography

• Question 50
• The potential for long-term maintenance of well
  being, which includes ecological, economic,
  political and cultural dimensions

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• Answer 50
• Sustainability