Grade 9 Exam Geography

Question 1

Equator

Answer 1

0 degrees latitude that divides the earth into Northern and soulthern hemisphere

Question 2

Tropic of cancer

Answer 2

Lines of latitude 23.5 degrees north or soulth of the equator

Question 3

Prime meridian

Answer 3

Line of longitude at 0 degrees that divides the earth into the eastern and western hemisphere

Question 4

Longitude

Answer 4

Measures the distance north snd soulth of the equator

Question 5

Latitude

Answer 5

Measures the distance east or west from the equator

Question 6

Western cordilla

Answer 6

High area with rocky mountains

Question 7

Canadian sheild

Answer 7

Oldest area and has dense boreal forests, glacial lakes, and mineral rich

Question 8

Canadian arctic

Answer 8

Very cold Temps, Tundra, low preciptarion

Question 9

Interior plains

Answer 9

Flat fertile areas covered in ice and snow and stow with super harsh weather

Question 10

Hudson Bay lowlands

Answer 10

Marshy wetlands, low population

Question 11

St lawerence lowlands

Answer 11

High population, fertile soils

Question 12

What are the 5 biomes of canada

Answer 12

Arctic, west coast, mountain, boreal, prairie

Question 13

Weather

Answer 13

The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place

Question 14

Climate

Answer 14

The long-term pattern of weather In a given area

Question 15

Primary industry

Answer 15

Mining, fising, lumber

Question 16

Secondary industry

Answer 16

Manufactering

Question 17

Teritary

Answer 17

Service based, reatail

Question 18

Quatenaery

Answer 18

Research and education based

Question 19

Threshold population

Answer 19

The minimum number of people needed for a service to work

Question 20

What are demographics?

Answer 20

Study of human population statistics

Question 21

Precambrian

Answer 21

The early age of earth, when earth became a thing

Question 22

Paelozic

Answer 22

Ancient life when the first animals apeared

Question 23

Mesozoic

Answer 23

The age of reptiles as dinosaurs abd crocodiles ruled this era

Question 24

Cenozoic

Answer 24

Recent life (right now)

Question 25

What is the order of geologic eras?

Answer 25

Precambrian,Paleolithic,mezozic andcenozoic

Question 26

What is a population pyramid

Answer 26

A bar graph showing gender statistics comparing all genders

Question 27

What are tectonic plates

Answer 27

Massive slabs of rock made-up up of the earths lithosphere that can cause erosion and national disasters on earth

Question 28

What is subduction?

Answer 28

When an oceanic plate runs into a continental plate and slides beneath it.

Question 29

What are the 3 types of volcanoes

Answer 29

Cinder cone volcanoes, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes

Question 30

What is a caldera?

Answer 30

A bowl shipped depression at the top of the volcano after an eruption

Question 31

What is permafrost

Answer 31

Any ground that remains completely frozen for at least two years straight.

Question 32

What are the 3 main types of rocks

Answer 32

Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic

Question 33

What are igneous rocks

Answer 33

Rocks formed from magma

Question 34

What are sedimentary rocks

Answer 34

Rocks formed from compaction

Question 35

What are metamorphic rocks?

Answer 35

Rocks transformed from other rocks

Question 36

Name five factors affecting climate

Answer 36

Wind, elevation, being near water, latitude and ocean currents

Question 37

What is the pacific ring of fire?

Answer 37

Region surrounding the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific plate

Question 38

What are the five types of settlement patterns?

Answer 38

Clustered,disperesed,peripheral,scattered,linear

Question 39

What is a refugee?

Answer 39

A person leaving their home country to escape war or persecution

Question 40

What is an enclave?

Answer 40

A cultural and social unit/ neighborhood inside a larger city or urban area and has a distinct cultural.

Question 41

What are the structural layers of the earth

Answer 41

Crust, mantle, outer and inner

Question 42

What are the 4 main types of settlements

Answer 42

Rural, compact,dispersed, and urban

Question 43

What are the main livibillity factors

Answer 43

Access to freshwater, food, housing, health care, and education are the main ones

Question 44

Names some energy sources

Answer 44

Fossil fuels, hydroelectric, nuclear,wind, solar and tidal

Question 45

Climate change

Answer 45

Change in long-term weather heat and precipitation

Question 46

What are greenhouse gases

Answer 46

Gases in the earths atmosphere that trap heat.

Question 47

Green house examples

Answer 47

No2 Co2 Methane Pfc Hfc

Question 48

What are the three main Fossil fuels

Answer 48

Coal, natural gas and oil