RESOURCES
This shiny metal is mined in the Cordillera and is used in jewelry.
What is gold?
These giant landforms in the Cordillera rise high above valleys and create many different climates.
A: What are mountains?
What are mountains?
The Haida First Nation built these strong boats for fishing and ocean travel.
What are canoes?
This gold rush began in 1861 and brought thousands of people to BC to search for gold.
What is the Caribou Gold Rush?
This big ocean brings wet air that makes the coast of the Cordillera rainy.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Farmers in the Cordillera grow crops like apples, peaches, and grapes. These crops are all part of this type of farming.
What is fruit farming?
These slow-moving “rivers of ice” shape valleys and carve the mountains.
What are glaciers?
Workers from this country helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway but were paid less and faced discrimination.
What is China?
This long road was built so wagons could bring supplies to gold miners and carry gold out of the region.
What is the Caribou Wagon Road?
Because some mountains stop the rain, places like Osoyoos become very dry. These regions are considered this type of environment.
What is a desert?
This resource uses rushing rivers in the mountains to create renewable electricity.
What is hydroelectricity?
This large body of water lies to the west of the Cordillera region.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This Indigenous group built pit-houses to stay warm during the snowy winters in the mountains.
Who are the Secwepemc?
During the Yukon Gold Rush, many people arrived from Canada, the United States, and __________.
What is United Kingdom?
Cordillera coastal areas tend to be ________ than inland areas.
What is warmer?
Many people in the Cordillera depend on this ocean resource for work and food.
What is fish?
This well-known lake in the Cordillera is located in a warm valley where many fruits are grown.
What is Lake Okanagan?
This British explorer arrived by sea in 1778 and met Indigenous peoples living on the coast.
Who is Captain James Cook?
About this many people rushed into the Yukon after the news of gold spread.
What is 100,000 people?
The northern part of the Cordillera is ________ than the southern part.
What is colder?
One energy resource found in the Cordillera that heats homes and cooks food.
What is natural gas?
These deep, narrow, ocean inlets are found along the coast.
What are fjords?
In the early 1900s, people from this country came to Canada worked in lumber mills.
What is India?
Gold was discovered in 1896 in this creek in the Yukon.
What is Bonanza Creek?
Canada’s only inland rainforest is found in ____________ of the Cordillera.
What is the Selkirk Mountain Range?