Science
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
The year Canada became a country through Confederation.
What is 1867?
The number of people living in a given area.
What is population density?
Canada's national animal is this large rodent.
What is a beaver?
A country improves access to healthcare, education, and clean water. These changes improve this.
What is quality of life?
What is the organelle known as the "Powerhouse of the cell"?
What is the mitochondria
This Métis leader led the Red River Resistance.
Who is Louis Riel?
A reason that causes people to leave their home country.
What is a push factor?
The longest river in the world according to most geography textbooks.
What is the Nile River?
A community removes large areas of forest near a river. This part of the water cycle will likely increase after heavy rainfall.
What is surface runoff?
his force helps objects float in water.
What is buoyancy?
British Columbia agreed to join Canada after being promised this major transportation project.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)?
The growth and expansion of cities.
What is urbanization?
This continent contains the most countries.
What is Africa?
This government policy had the greatest long-term impact on Indigenous language and culture in Canada between 1850 and 1997.
What was the Residential School system?
The process where water vapour cools and changes into liquid water.
What is condensation?
Workers from this country played a major role in building the western portion of the CPR.
What is China?
A resource such as wind or solar power that can be naturally replaced.
What is a renewable resource?
Canada has this many provinces.
What is 10?
This new province was created in 1870 following negotiations involving the Métis.
What is Manitoba?
Even the best machines cannot be 100% efficient because some energy is lost in these forms.
What are heat and sound?
This territory was purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870.
What is Rupert's Land?
Meeting current needs without harming future generations' ability to meet theirs.
What is sustainability?
This animal's fingerprints are so similar to humans that they can confuse investigators.
What is a koala?
A machine with 80 J of useful output from 100 J input has this efficiency.
What is 80%?