Canadian Geography
What is the population of Canada.
40.1 million
What did John Cabot discover?
John Cabot is discovering Newfoundland and was instrumental in the development of the transatlantic trade between England and the Americas.
What does municipal mean?
Municipal means a governing body to a city or town.
What English game did baseball frow out of?
A. Polo
B. Crickets
C. Rounders
D. Tennis
What are some of Canada's most iconic animals.
What are Canada's two official sports?
Ice hockey and lacrosse.
Who were the first European settlers in Canada?
What is land near the ocean called?
The coast, also know as the coastline or seashore, is defined as the area where land meets the sea or the ocean, or as a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
What is Canada's official summer sport?
A. Curling
B. Hockey
C. Basketball
D. Lacrosse
Gavia immer is a particular vocal bird that is famous in Canada thanks to its appearance on the one-dollar coin. By what name is it better known?
Common loon
What is Canada's tallest mountain, and where is it located?
Mount Lucania and it's located in the Yukon.
What was Canadas first city?
City of Saint John. Saint John, Canada's oldest incorporated city, is also the only city on the beautiful Bay of Fundy.
What is the name for electricity that is made from water?
Hydropower, or hydroelectric power, is one of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy, which uses the natural flow of moving water to generate electricity.
What was Canada's first national sport?
What slim canine has an orangish coat, fluffy tail and vertical slit like pupils similar to those of a feline?
Red Fox
What are the five regions of Canada?
Atlantic - Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
Central Canada - Quebec & Ontario
The Prairies - Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta
The West Coast - British Columbia
The North - Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory
Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?
Sir John Alexander MacDonald
What kind of carvings do some Inuit make and the name of material they might cave in?
Ivory - seals, caribou, polar bear, birds, and other animals important to Inuit's.
In 1759, what did Scottish soldiers melt to make curling stones?
A. Gold bars
B. Cannonballs
C. Leadballs
D. Tyndall balls
What large omnivore eats berries and insects, runs fast, swims well, climbs trees, and can be many colours like blond, cinnamon, brown or black?
Black Bear
What is the Canadian Shieled and where is it located?
Canadian shieled, one of the worlds largest shields, its centered on Hudson Bay and extends for 8 million square KM.
When did British Columbia join Canada?
On July 20, 1871, British Columbia became the six providence to join confederation receiving three seats in the Canadian Senate and six in the House of Commons.
The skin of is called __________. The first Nations people used this to make teepees.
Hide, skin, pelt and leather are referencing the same thing.
Where did the first 18-hole golf course appear in Canada?
A. Montreal, Quebec
B. Niagara Falls, Ontario
C. Victoria, British Coloumbia
D. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
The twenty-odd species of lake whitefish that may be found in freshwater lakes in Canada's prairie region are members of what family of fish.
Salmon.