Regional Landscapes
This region is home to Canada’s two largest cities, Montreal and Toronto
What is the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Lowlands?
This term describes the average weather of a place over a 30-year period.
What is climate?
Saskatchewan is the world’s leading exporter of this mineral, used primarily in fertilizer.
What is potash?
These traditional Inuit stone markers are used for navigation and as directional signs for hunting.
What are Inukshuks?
Established in 1887, this was Canada’s very first national park.
What is Banff National Park?
This massive region contains some of the oldest rocks on Earth and covers nearly half of Canada's land area.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This phenomenon in Alberta involves warm, dry winds that can raise winter temperatures significantly in a short time
What is a Chinook?
This province is the leading producer of oil and gas in Canada.
What is Alberta?
This term refers to traditional Inuit foods harvested from the land, such as seal, whale, and caribou.
What is "Country Food"?
This natural hazard involves the movement of tectonic plates and is most common on the West Coast.
What is an earthquake?
This region is known as "Canada’s Breadbasket" due to its flat land and fertile soil used for grain farming.
What are the Interior Plains?
This is the primary reason the Arctic is classified as a "desert."
What is low precipitation (or very little rain/snow)?
This is the dominant economic activity in the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Lowlands due to the large population and power sources.
What is manufacturing?
This temporary winter shelter was made of snow blocks and designed to trap heat for Inuit hunters.
What is an igloo?
This term describes using resources responsibly so that they are still available for future generations.
What is sustainable development?
These mountains on the East Coast are much older and more eroded than the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This weather event, common in the Maritimes, occurs when the warm, moist air of the Gulf Stream meets the cold, dry air of the Labrador Current.
What is fog?
In Alberta, companies are legally required to do this within two years of cutting down trees for timber.
What is reforestation (or replanting trees)?
While igloos were for winter, these were used by Inuit families as mobile homes during the summer months
What are skin tents?
This federal law is specifically cited in the presentation as the tool used to prevent "unauthorized tree cutting" on any land owned by the federal government.
What is the Forestry Act?
This region features the youngest and tallest mountains in Canada, including the Rockies and the Coast Mountains.
What is the Western Cordillera?
This specific body of water acts as a "giant cooler," transferring cold air into northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Quebec.
What is Hudson Bay?
This law requires fishing licenses and sets limits to prevent the depletion of fish stocks.
What is the Fisheries Act?
This nutrient, often found in fresh traditional meats, helped the Inuit avoid scurvy in a landscape with no fruit.
What is Vitamin C?
This is the percentage of Canada’s total landmass currently covered by the 48 national parks.
What is 3%?