Physical Geography of Canada
This horseshoe-shaped region surrounds the Hudson Bay and is known for being rich in minerals but having poor soil for farming.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This is the national capital city of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
These are the two European "mother countries" that colonized Canada and influenced its languages and religions.
What are Great Britain (United Kingdom) and France?
This is the title of the Head of Government in Canada, who holds the most political power and is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Canadian government.
Who is the Prime Minister?
On the economic continuum, Canada is a "Mixed" economy, but it leans heavily toward this side.
What is "market" (Mixed Leaning Market)?
This man-made feature was completed in 1959 to allow large ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Great Lakes.
Because of the harsh, cold climate in the north, 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of Canada's border of this country.
What is the United States of America?
This movement in Quebec grew out of a desire to protect French language and culture from being overshadowed by English.
What is the Quebec Independence Movement?
In Canada’s parliamentary democracy, citizens do not vote for the leader directly; instead, they vote for members of this legislative body.
What is Parliament?
Education, healthcare training, and job skills are all examples of investment in this.
What is Human Capital?
These are the two oceans that border Canada to the East and the West.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean?
This is the French-speaking province of Canada that has often considered seeking independence.
What is Quebec?
Canada gained its independence from this European country through a long process of negotiations rather than a war.
What is Great Britain (the United Kingdom)?
Because Canada recognizes the British Monarch as its ceremonial head of state, it is known as this type of government.
Double your points: This is the group of countries that used to be controlled by Great Britain and now work closely with Great Britain in terms of economics and government.
What is the British Commonwealth?
This trade agreement (formerly NAFTA) allows for easier trade between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.
What is the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement)?
This massive mountain range is located in Western Canada and stretches down into the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Canada is divided into these two types of political divisions (similar to states).
DOUBLE YOUR POINTS: What is the main difference between these two political divisions?
What are Provinces and Territories?
Provinces have their own provincial governments, while territories do not.
This is the primary religion of the residents of Quebec, in contrast to the primary religion of the rest of Canada.
What is Roman Catholicism (Catholic)?
This person is the appointed representative of the British Monarch in Canada. Each member in the British Commonwealth has one of these people.
Who is the governor-general?
Factories, machinery, and new technology used in the Canadian Shield mining industry are examples of this.
What are Capital Goods?
Canada shares these five massive bodies of freshwater with the United States.
What are the Great Lakes?
This is the term used for the large loss of trees in central Canada and around the Canadian Shield for the production of timber and paper products.
What is deforestation?
This is the word to describe a group of people that is native to a specific place or culture, such as the Inuit people of northern Canada.
What is indigenous?
This is the main difference between a Presidential and Parliamentary democracy how the Head of Government is chosen.
What is direct election in Presidential Democracies and selection by the legislature in Parliamentary Democracies?
This is the relationship between capital investment and the Standard of Living.
Double your points: This is the FULL name of the measurement of Standard of Living that involves calculating the total value of goods and services produced in a country in one year divided by the total population.
What is: The higher the literacy rate, the higher the standard of living?
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Per Capita?