VOCABULARY
CANADIAN HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
CANADA TODAY
POTPOURRI
100
What is soil that remains frozen even when the summer warmth temporarily melts the snow and ice that usually covers the area?
What is Permafrost
100
Who were the first people of Southern Canada?
Who are the First Nations
100
Which border is Canada's highest population density located?
What is the United States
100
What natural resource is mostly found in western Canada?
What is oil
100
What natural resource attracted most European traders to Canada?
What is animal furs
200
Term for a territory that is under the control of a larger country.
What is Province
200
What did Jacques Cartier name eastern Canada in 1534?
What is New France
200
What has limited the population in the Northern Canada region?
What is the harsh tundra and northern climates
200
Who has the greatest amount of executive power in the Canadian government?
Who is the Prime Minister
200
What war helped unify French Canadians and British Canadians and strengthened their ties to Britain?
What is the War of 1812
300
What did Canada become in 1867, allowing it to govern itself but still had its foreign affairs controlled by Great Britain?
What is a Dominion
300
Which British Act allowed religious freedom and French laws?
What is the Quebec Act
300
What region of Canada will you find the majority of Canadians living and working?
What is around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
300
What are Canada's two official languages?
What are English and French
300
Who are the native people of Canada's Arctic region?
Who are the Inuit
400
What makes Canada's fishing industry benefit from the warm and cold waters combining in the Grand Banks?
What is the Mixing Zone
400
What war helped unify French Canadians and British Canadians and strengthen their ties to Britain?
What is the War of 1812
400
How are Canada's settlement patterns similar to those of the United States?
What is that most Canadians live in urban areas
400
What type of government does Canada have today?
What is a Constitutional Monarchy
400
What does Canada rank #1 in?
What is the percentage of college and university graduates
500
Canada has distinctive cultural, ethnic, and racial groups that are encouraged to keep their own identities and cultures. This is known as...
What is a plural society
500
What route was used by explorers to sail from Europe, north to Asia?
What is the Northwest Passage
500
What two bodies of water are connected by the St. Lawrence Seaway?
What are the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean
500
What are the five major ethnic groups in Canada today?
What are British Canadians, French Canadians, Native Americans, Canadian-Asian, and Caribbean Canadians
500
Where is the biggest environmental impact of carbon being released into the atmosphere because of clear-cutting?
What is Canada's Boreal Forests
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