Physical Features
Mountains, rivers, lakes and bays of water are called
What are physical features (or landforms and waterways)?
Name the two official languages of Canada
What are English and French
•The U.S. and Canada have representative democracies in which people ______ (another word for vote) officials to represent the citizens.
•What are elect (or elect/choose)?
•'imports'.
•What are goods and services brought into a country from another country?
immigration
•What is the act of moving into a new country to live there permanently?
The Great Lakes, the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and Hudson Bay are examples of these.
What are geographic regions (or physical features)?
•This is the Canadian region where Hudson Bay is located and contains large, low-lying tundra areas.
•What is Northern Canada (or the Canadian Shield / Arctic region)?
•In limited governments, the country relies on its citizens to _______ in free elections — this is how people voice who will represent them.
•What is vote?
•'exports'.
•What are goods and services sold to other countries?
TRUE/FALSE: 'Having a weak representative government gives the United States a strong democracy.'
•What is False — a strong representative government helps maintain a strong democracy?
A natural feature that is a body of water smaller than an ocean but larger than a pond.
•What is a lake?
•What does it mean to 'secede'?
•What is to withdraw from (or break away from) a country or political union?
•List one civic responsibility we discussed that free citizens have but people under dictatorships usually do not (hint: happens every 4 years in the U.S.).
•What is voting in free elections?
Scarce
•What is limited in supply relative to demand?
•Define 'push factor' and give one example.
•What is a reason people leave a place (example: war, lack of jobs, famine)?
•This term names a long, narrow mountain range (example: the Appalachians or Rockies).
What is a mountain range
•Canada’s government type that includes a monarch (king/queen) and an elected parliament is called this.
•What is a constitutional monarchy?
•This form of government places most power in the hands of a central authority and often limits political freedoms.
•What is a dictatorship (or authoritarian government)?
One geographic factor a business might look for when choosing where to move or expand
•What is access to transportation, natural resources, market size, climate, or population centers?
•Define 'pull factor' and give one example.
•What is something that attracts people to a place (example: job opportunities, safety, family)?
•A coastal indentation that is larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
•What is a bay?
•A national policy that encourages people from many cultures to keep their traditions while being part of one country.
•What is multiculturalism?
•Define 'constitutional republic' and give one country example.
•What is a government whose head is elected under a constitution (example: United States)?
•List two benefits of a free enterprise system.
What are increased consumer choice and competition (also: innovation, entrepreneurship, private property rights)?
•Select the economic system: 'No private business ownership; government controls production and pricing'.
•What is command (or communist/command) economy?