The Lithosphere
The Hydrosphere
Atmospheric Composition and Pressure
Atmospheric Circulation and Weather Phenomena
Climate Change
100
Solid inorganic substances with clearly defined composition and properties.
What is a mineral?
100
The Earth's outer layer of water in all its states.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
The two (2) gases that form the largest percentages of air.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
100
Large expanse of the atmosphere with relatively uniform temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
100
Abnormal modification of climatic conditions on Earth, caused by human activity.
What is climate change?
200
Former igneous or sedimentary rocks that have been transformed by heat or pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
200
The portion of the Earth's surface where water is found in the solid form; all the frozen water on Earth's surface.
What is the cryosphere?
200
The layer of the atmosphere where we find the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
200
Causes winds to deviate to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
200
The natural process that allows Earth to retain some of the heat it receives from the Sun.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
When the amount of a mineral in a particular site is high enough for mining.
What is a deposit?
300
St-Lawrence River Hudson Bay Ungava Bay
What are the main watersheds in Quebec?
300
The coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
300
Tropical storm characterised by violent winds revolving around an area of low pressure.
What is a cyclone?
300
Farm animals' digestion (burps/ farts) manure Rice farming Decomposition of household waste
What are the sources of methane?
400
Minerals that if they were chemically pure would be colourless but small quantities of impurities give them different colourings.
What is allocromatic?
400
Topography Geology Climate Vegetation Agriculture, industrial and urban development
What are the factors affecting water flow?
400
The two (2) factors which affect the number of collisions between particles and therefore atmospheric pressure.
What are the number of particles and temperature?
400
A warm air mass moves towards a cold air mass and the warm air mass gently rises above the cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
400
The most important greenhouse gas.
What is water vapour?
500
Gold Copper Zinc Nickel Iron
What are the minerals mined in Quebec?
500
The "conveyer belt" that closely interconnects the surface and subsurface currents.
What is thermohaline circulation?
500
The reason why winds occur.
What is the movement from high pressure to low pressure.
500

Stable weather Clear skies Dry and sunny in the summer Clear and cold in the winter

What is the weather associated with an anti-cyclone?

500
The amount (in degrees celcius) which is considered critical for climate change, if Earth's average temperature were to increase.
What is an increase of 2 C.
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