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Grade 9 Geography Jeopardy

Human Development

Index

Environmental Issues

Demographics Population Pyramids

Earth’s

Layers

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2

3 3 3 3 3

4 4 4 4 4

5 5 5 5 5

Life expectancy, education and Gross Domestic Product

(GDP)

What are the measures of HDI?

The “weighted combination” of literacy rate and the level of enrollment in

schools.

What is the HDI measurement of

education?

The Human Development Index (HDI) measures this.

What is a country’s well being, especially child

welfare?

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).

What is Gross Domestic Product?

It is the ULTIMATE measure of progress

What is a person’s quality of life?

A type of environmental action whereby you adjust to the new

environmental conditions

What is Adaptation?

An environmental action whereby you roll the dice and

take it as it comes.

What is Do Nothing?

The name of the environmental action whereby you decide to stop polluting.

What is Mitigation?

The type of environmental action whereby you invest your resources in finding a

future solution.

What is Technological Hope?

The type of environmental action whereby you cleanup

sites that were polluted in the past

What is Restorative Mitigation?

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 solid mass of iron at the centre of the Earth.

What is Inner Core?

The name of the forces the act to break down the surface

of the Earth

What is erosion?

Convection currents in this layer are believed to be partially responsible for

moving the 15 plates of the Earth.

What is the Mantle?

4.7 billion years.

What is the estimated age of the

Earth?

This quasi-liquid layer is composed of mainly nickel and iron, and it surrounds

the Inner Core.

What is the Outer Core?