Physical Regions
Physical Regions
Physical Regions
Vocabulary
Economic Regions
100
How many physical regions are there in Canada?
What is 7?
100
The southern part of this region is dotted with prairies and farms.
What is the Interior Plains?
100
This is Canada's major waterway.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?
100
A large area of flat land covered by grasses and wildflowers but few trees.
What is prairie?
100
Canada has this many economic regions.
What is five?
200
This is Canada's longest river and is in the northwest.
What is the Mackenzie River?
200
This region lies west of the Interior Plains and extends to the Pacific Ocean and is known for its forests, mineral resources, rivers, and wildlife.
What is the Western Mountains region?
200
This is one of the large islands formed when underwater mountains rise above sea level.
What is Prince Edward Island/
200
A large, flat plain of frozen ground.
What is tundra?
200
There are ten of these in Canada.
What are provinces?
300
This is the largest physical region and is huge and rocky.
What is the Canadian Shield?
300
This region is made up of swamps and stretches across the southern shore of the Hudson Bay.
What is the Hudson Bay Lowlands?
300
This region has good farmland and the St. Lawrence Seaway and many people live there.
What is the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
300
A narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs.
What is fjord?
300
There are 3 of these in Canada.
What are territories?
400
This is Canada's smallest region and lies southeast of the Canadian Shield.
What is the St. Lawrence Lowlands region?
400
This region is in Canada's far north and it is too cold for tress to grow.
What is the Arctic Islands region?
400
Because of the lack of soil, few people live in this region.
What is the Canadian Shield?
400
This area rule themselves much like the states in the United States.
What is the provinces?
400
These Provinces have at least one border on the Atlantic Ocean or one of its gulfs or sea.
What is the Atlantic Provinces?
500
The physical region is fertile valleys and low mountains is rich in forests, mineral resources and fish.
What is the Appalachian region?
500
This region is made up of 12 large islands and hundreds of small ones.
What is the Arctic Islands region?
500
This is the world's second largest country in size but more than 30 other countries have more people.
What is Canada?
500
These are large divisions of Canada that do not have the same rights of self-government as the provinces.
What are territories?
500
This has been the central economic activity of the Atlantic provinces since the time of European settlement.
What is fishing?
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