Geography
This term means a long-term change in Earth’s temperature and weather patterns.
What is climate change?
Media literacy is the ability to access, understand, and analyze media messages. The word “media” means this.
What is mass communication?
These colours sit opposite each other on the colour wheel. Red & green are one example.
What are complementary colours?
This organ pumps blood through the body.
What is the heart?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This effect describes how gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap heat like a blanket.
What is the greenhouse gas effect?
Name three types of media we consume daily.
What are: social media, newspapers, TV, radio, magazines, YouTube, podcasts, advertisements, etc.?
This colour scheme uses different shades and tints of the same colour.
What is a monochromatic colour scheme?
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This Canadian city is the capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
This term refers specifically to the rise in Earth’s average temperature due to greenhouse gases.
What is global warming
Describe what a Niche audience means, give one example.
What is, a very specific and small group of people. For example, gamers who like one specific game, fans of one K-pop group, people who collect rare sneakers, etc.?
This element of art uses colour to show feelings, such as blue for calm or red for excitement.
What is using colour to show mood or emotion?
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
This animal is Canada’s national animal and is known for building dams.
What is the beaver?
Name three sources of greenhouse gas emissions
What are: burning fossil fuels (releases CO₂), agriculture (releases methane), deforestation (reduces CO₂ absorption), transportation (burns gasoline), and industry (burns fuels for energy)?
What is a broad audience?
What is A broad audience is meant to appeal to many people. For example a family movie, national news channel, major sports event, etc.?
Courtice Intermediate School sits on the traditional territory of these Indigenous peoples.
Who are the Traditional and Treaty Territory of the Mississaugas First Nation that includes the Algonquin, the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We express gratitude for the First Peoples for their care for and teachings about our earth and our relations.
A polygon with six sides is called this.
What is a hexagon?
This force pulls objects toward the Earth and keeps us from floating away.
What is gravity?
Choose one sector (healthcare, agriculture, construction, or transportation) and explain one way climate change impacts it.
Media can persuade, entertain, educate, or inform. Explain why it’s important to think critically about media messages.
What is “so we can identify bias, avoid misinformation, and make informed decisions”?
A “collage” is made by arranging images, textures, and paper to create art. The word comes from a French verb meaning this.
What is “to glue” (coller)?
In a fraction, the top number is called this and represents how many parts are being considered.
What is the numerator?
Name the three states of matter and give one example of each.