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What is consumerism?

The belief that buying and consuming goods and services is essential for happiness and well-being

100

How many bones are in the human body?

206

100

Mr Predigers favourite hockey team

Toronto Maple Leafs

100

What is the capital city of Quebec

Quebec City


200

What military conflict happened between the United States and Great Britain, with Canada, then a British colony, influencing major Canadian future events?

War of 1812

200

What is buoyancy?

tendency of an object to float or to rise in a fluid when submerged. It is also an upwards force of on any object in a fluid.

200

How many Prediger siblings 

2

200

Q) How many oceans surround Canada?


Three (The Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific).

300

Name 2 different SPECIFIC Canadian Landscapes

•High mountains - Coast Mountains (B.C. and the Yukon), the Canadian Rockies (Alberta and B.C.), and the Mackenzie Mountains (the Yukon and N.W.T.)

•Prairie Grasslands – Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba

•Different types of forests – Acandian, Boreal, Carolinian, Coast, Columbia, Great Lakes, Montane, Subalpine

•Arctic tundra where the ground is permanently frozen - Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. It also covers parts of northern Quebec and the most northern parts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

•Coastlines – East and West

300

The angle of reflection equals 

the angle of incidence.

300

Whens Predigers Birthday?

Jan 20

300

What flavour pizza was invented in Canada?


The ham and pineapple combination, also known as the Hawaiian.

400

Name 4 important factors of Culture?

•Values – What you would consider right or wrong. EX: compassion, responsibility

•Beliefs- What you consider to be true/believe in EX: treat everyone equally

•Customs- rules, behaviors, rituals, and celebrations. EX: shaking hands

•Social norms- the way you perceive what society expects from you EX: saying thank you or holding the door open

•Language – how you communicate, what language you speak EX: Spanish

•Hobbies – Activities that you enjoy EX: Video games

•Music: What types of music you listen to : EX: Pop or Rock

•FOOD : What types of food you enjoy EX: Pizza or Pasta

•Religion: What you believe humans relationship is with a higher power EX: Islam

400

The part of the eye that is shaped like a dome and bends light to help the eye focus.

Cornea

400

Name both jobs prediger does outside of teaching

painting and coaching hockey

400

Thanksgiving is still not a national holiday in which province of Canada?


A) Nova Scotia.

500

This Canadian event was Issued by British King George in 1776 where British established land from taking it from France in the Seven Years War

Royal Proclamation

500

What is selective permeablility?

to differentiate between different types of molecules, only allowing some molecules through while blocking others.

500

The name of Mr. Prediger's favourite song is 

There's the sun- Zach Top

500

Canada is famous for maple syrup. What other tree can (not maple) be used to make a sweet syrup?


Birch.

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