Canada
group of mountain ranges that run side by side
This is what huge prairies in the southern part of the Interior Plains are important for
farming and ranching
Canada's second largest province
Ontario
This city is Canada's main Pacific port
Vancouver
in this type of government, voters elect representatives to lawmaking body
parliamentary democracy
mountain range that is part of an area called a cordillera
Rocky Mountains
Canada's landforms are divided into six of these
physical regions
paper made for newspaper
newsprint
This city is a major transportation center that links eastern and western Canada
Winnipeg
the Canadian Shield contains hills worn down by erosion and hundreds of lakes carved by these
glaciers
a rolling, inland grassland area with fertile soil
prairie
Northern Canada has a polar climate, a little farther south is a subarctic climate, and the southeastern part, where most people live, have this type of climate
humid continental climate
province with thick forests
and independent country
artists who painted scenes of the northern Canadian wilderness
region that covers about half of Canada's land area
Canadian Shield
This body of water lies to the north of Canada
Arctic Ocean
to withdraw from a country
secede
This percentage of the population lives in the province of Quebec
25 percent
having two official languages
bilingual
vast, rolling, treeless plains
tundra
second
Quebec
What did Canada and the United States build to open the Great Lakes to shipping?
the St. Lawrence Seaway
an official who heads Canada's government
prime minister