Grade 9 Geography Jeopardy

Climate

Graphs

Ecological Footprint

Demographics Population Pyramids

Global Climate Warming

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The two measures on the Y-axis

What are Precipitation and Temperature?

The highest temperature and the lowest

temperature added together

What is Temperature Range?

The sum of all monthly precipitation

What is Total Annual Precipitation?

Sum of monthly temperature divided by 12

What is Average Monthly

Temperature?

Weather conditions in a place or region averaged over a

long time period

What is Climate?

It is the measure of total human impact on the environment.

What is Ecological Footprint?

Housing, Food, Transportation, Consumer

Goods and Services

What are the components or measures of an Ecological

Footprint?

4.27

What is the 1999 Average Canadian Ecological Footprint value?

8,633,000,000 ha of land / 6,000,000,000 people

What is Fair Earthshare (i.e., the amount of land each

person on Earth is entitled to if the land was share equally?

The approach to development that meets the

needs of the present population without

negatively affecting the ability of future generations

to meet their needs

What is Sustainability?

The characteristics of the population such as age, income, ethnicity, etc.

What is Demographics?

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

What is a Low Income Cut-Off?

Going without the daily minimum food requirements

What is Hunger?

Number of individuals per unit area.

What is Population Density?

The number of deaths of children less than one year of

age, per 1000 live births.

What is Infant Mortality?

It is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of

various age groups in a population.

What is a Population Pyramid?

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.

What is Expansive Growth?

The average number of babies born to women during

their reproductive years .

What is the Total Fertility Rate?

2.1

What is the Replacement Rate where birth equals death?

Expansive, Stationary, Stable and Declining

What are the four general Population Pyramid shapes?

The effect produced as greenhouse gases allow

incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent part of the outgoing

infrared radiation from the Earth's surface from escaping

into outer space.

What is the Greenhouse Effect?

Energy source with an infinite supply such as wind

or solar.

What is a Renewable Energy Source?

Energy derived from non-conventional sources such

as compressed natural gas.

What is an Alternative Energy Source?

Carbon dioxide, Methane, Ozone and Water Vapour.

What are Greenhouse Gases?

Warming of the world’s temperatures as a result of

rising levels of Greenhouse Gases in the

atmosphere.

What is Global Climate Warming?