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This is the capital city of Canada
What is Ottawa?
This massive, rocky region surrounds Hudson Bay and covers about half of Canada
What is the Canadian Shield?
This sector involves taking natural resources directly from the earth, like fishing or mining
What is the Primary Industry?
This term means using resources today in a way that keeps them healthy for the future
what is sustainability?
This is the difference between a province and a territory
What is how they get their power?
These are the 3 territories located in Canada's North
What are Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut?
The region is known as the ''Breadbasket of Canada'' because of its flat land and farming
What are the Interior Plains?
A person working in a factory to build cars or furniture belongs to this sector
What is secondary industry
This is the name for ground that stays frozen all year long in the North
What is permafrost?
This is the capital city of Ontario
If you travel from Ontario to Quebec, you are heading in this cardinal direction
You will find the Rocky Mountains in this Western physical region
What is Cordillera?
This sector provides services such as teachers, doctors, and bus drivers
What is the tertiary industry?
This "Horseshoe" shaped region is the main source of Canada's minerals like gold and nickel
What is the Canadian Shield?
This is the type of rock that is often exposed on the surface of the Canadian Shield
What is Bedrock?
This the smallest physical region, but it has the largest population and the Great Lakes
What are the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands?
This high-tech sector involves research, scientists, and information technology
what is the quaternary industry
This is a major environmental impact caused by clearing large areas of trees
What is deforestation?
These are the two provinces that do not touch an ocean
What are Alberta and Saskatchewan?
What are the four provinces that make up the Atlantic region
What are New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador?
This northern region is a desert of ice and snow with very few trees
What is the Arctic?
This is the main industry found in the interior plains due to the rich soil
What is Agriculture (or farming)?
These are two reasons why most Canadian cities are built near water
What are transportation, drinking water, power or food?
This region is mostly made up of wetlands and swampy bogs near the Hudson Bay
What are the Hudson Bay Lowlands?