Grade 9 Geography Jeopardy

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Grade 9 Geography Jeopardy
Human Development Index Environmental Issues Demographics Population Pyramids Earths Layers
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Life expectancy, education and Gross Domestic
Product (GDP)
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What are the measures of HDI?
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The weighted combination of literacy rate and
the level of enrollment in schools.
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What is the HDI measurement of education?
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The Human Development Index (HDI) measures this.
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What is a countrys well being, especially child
welfare?
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It is the total market value of all goods and
services produced within a given country in a
given period of time (usually a calendar year).
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What is Gross Domestic Product?
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It is the ULTIMATE measure of progress
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What is a persons quality of life?
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A type of environmental action whereby you adjust
to the new environmental conditions
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What is Adaptation?
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An environmental action whereby you roll the dice
and take it as it comes.
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What is Do Nothing?
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The name of the environmental action whereby you
decide to stop polluting.
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What is Mitigation?
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The type of environmental action whereby you
invest your resources in finding a future
solution.
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What is Technological Hope?
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The type of environmental action whereby you
cleanup sites that were polluted in the past
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What is Restorative Mitigation?
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The characteristics of the population such as
age, income, ethnicity, etc.
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What is Demographics?
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Instead of a Poverty Rate, Canada uses this to
describe families devoting a large share of their
income to the necessities of food, shelter and
clothing
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What is a Low Income Cut-Off?
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Going without the daily minimum food requirements
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What is Hunger?
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Number of individuals per unit area.
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What is Population Density?
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The number of deaths of children less than one
year of age, per 1000 live births.
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What is Infant Mortality?
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It is a graphical illustration that shows the
distribution of various age groups in a
population.
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What is a Population Pyramid?
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The type of growth shown in a Population Pyramid
with a broad base, a rapid rate of population
growth and a low proportion of older people.
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What is Expansive Growth?
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The average number of babies born to women during
their reproductive years .
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What is the Total Fertility Rate?
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2.1
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What is the Replacement Rate where birth equals
death?
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Expansive, Stationary, Stable and Declining
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What are the four general Population Pyramid
shapes?
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The solid mass of iron at the centre of the Earth.
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What is Inner Core?
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The name of the forces the act to break down the
surface of the Earth
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What is erosion?
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Convection currents in this layer are believed to
be partially responsible for moving the 15 plates
of the Earth.
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What is the Mantle?
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4.7 billion years.
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What is the estimated age of the Earth?
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This quasi-liquid layer is composed of mainly
nickel and iron, and it surrounds the Inner Core.
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What is the Outer Core?