Grade 9 Geography

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Across
  1. 1. Weather typically refers to temperature and ____________.
  2. 3. Scientists use these as an example of proof supporting the concept of plate tectonics.
  3. 4. The “________” projection enlarges countries which are far away from the equator but is good for navigation.
  4. 5. The Great Lakes were formed by ________.
  5. 10. This landform region covers a great deal of Canada’s area - more than any of the others.
  6. 12. Plates that are moving away from each other are called _________.
  7. 14. “How was the land or place physically formed?” is an example of what geographic guiding question?
  8. 18. The further away you get from the equator, the ______ it gets.
  9. 21. Spatial significance, patterns and trends, interrelationships and geographic perspectives are examples of _________ ____________ ________.
  10. 24. “What’s the location?” and “what do you see?” fit under what geographic guiding question?
  11. 25. The O in LOWERN stands for…
  12. 29. What changes happen over time & what happens over and over again are parts of what geographic thinking concept?
Down
  1. 2. The version of plate tectonics that results in really really high mountains.
  2. 6. A word for an individual who has a vested interest in a situation/place/product who’s job it is to influence government policy.
  3. 7. What is the capital of Nunavut?
  4. 8. The side of the mountain which receives no rain (because it usually falls on the windward side) can be described as a ___ ______.
  5. 9. The R in LOWERN stands for…
  6. 11. A geographic thinking concept which can be explained as: “making connections between the events of factors that give a location its characteristics”, or “how does it all fit together?”
  7. 13. The rocks which glacier pick up and bring with them is called _______.
  8. 15. A word which is used to describe all of the H2O on planet earth.
  9. 16. Plates that slide against each other are referred to as _________.
  10. 17. This word describes climates in places next to oceans.
  11. 19. Word that describes when a glacier scrapes the walls of a mountain creating a u or v shape.
  12. 20. The word for the climate region just north of the boreal.
  13. 22. Water affects the climate of the land close to it because water is an excellent _________.
  14. 23. The “_____ _____” shows countries at the correct size, but with a distorted shape.
  15. 26. ACRONYM for factors which influence climate.
  16. 27. “Why care?” (a geographic guiding question) primarily examines ____________.
  17. 28. This climate zone is the biggest - covering much of Canada’s land mass.
  18. 30. A detail that must be on every map.
  19. 31. There is always a compromise when representing the globe on a 2D surface because it is a ______.