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Grade 9 Geography Unit 4 – Physical Geography Jeopardy. The further north or south you go, the colder it becomes. What is Latitude?. The higher you climb, the colder it becomes. What is Altitude?. The term used to describe the ability of water to retain heat. . What is Heat Capacity?.
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The term used to describe the ability of water to retain heat.
It is the side of a mountain where air rises and cools, and water condenses and falls back to earth as rain or snow.
It is the reason Watertown, NY gets more snow than Kingston, Ontario even though Kingston is further north.
This landform consists of three mountain ranges including the Rocky Mountains.
The temperature is about 4,800OC. The pressure is over 3.6 million times the pressure at the Earth’s surface. Gravity is ZERO.
Wegener proposed this theory to explain the shape of the Earth’s land masses.
The movement of the Earth’s plates by convection currents in the semi-molten layer of the Mantle
Constantly changing due to forces such as erosion and deposition, this outermost layer of the Earth is between 6 and 100 km thick.
Called the Age of Mammals, we live in this short and most recent Geological Era.
Canada’s oldest landform, the Canadian Shield, was formed in this ancient Geological Era.
Divided into three periods called Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous, it is the Geological Era of the dinosaur.
The period represents 87% of Earth’s geological time, and during this period, Earth’s atmosphere began to convert from carbon dioxide and methane to oxygen
The type of precipitation that occurs when warm moist air is forced to rise over large mountains.
This type of precipitation occurs when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass.
This occurred when a large cyclonic storm stalled over Eastern Ontario and Quebec in 1998.
This precipitation occurs when air is heated over warm land resulting in the air rising
This type of precipitation is the most commonly occurring type in Kingston.