GEOLOGIC FOUNDATIONS
About 500–200 million years ago, this process laid down up to 6 km of sand, mud, and marine sediments at the bottom of a shallow sea in present-day Nahanni.
A) Volcanic eruptions
B) Glacial deposition
C) Sediment layering
D) River flooding
What is sediment layering?
Because most of the park wasn’t glaciated in recent times, erosion by this—rather than ice—shaped many valleys.
A) Wind
B) River
C) Volcanic
D) Earthquake
What is river erosion?
This Prime Minister’s 1970 canoe trip helped lead to the park reserve’s establishment.
A) Lester B. Pearson
B) Pierre Trudeau
C) Brian Mulroney
D) Joe Clark
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
Doo refers to what animal in Dene?
Pika
Mule Deer
Dall’s Sheep
Deer Mouse
What is Dall's Sheep?
Around 200 million years ago, this movement began folding and pushing up these sedimentary layers into mountain ranges.
A) Ocean tides
B) Continental drift
C) River erosion
D) Volcanic eruptions
What is continental drift?
A sharp, narrow ridge left between two glacier‐carved bowls is called this.
A) Kettle
B) Arête
C) Fjord
D) Moraine
What is arête?
Nahanni was first designated as a national park reserve in this year.
A) 1970
B) 1972
C) 1976
D) 1978
What is 1972?
Tu Naka Dé is the Dene name for this water feature.
A) Flat River
B) Caribou River
C) Prairie Creek
D) Liard River
What is Flat River?
The South Nahanni River was already flowing when mountains rose, meaning it had this unusual characteristic.
A) Glacial river
B) Meandering river
C) Antecedent river
D) Underground river
What is an antecedent river?
A glacial blockage in this gap caused the formation of three “glacial lakes” in the river valley.
A) First Canyon
B) Sunblood–Mattson Gap
C) Fourth Canyon
D) Headless Range Gap
What is the Sunblood–Mattson Gap?
Nahanni became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in this year.
A) 1972
B) 1976
C) 1978
D) 1982
What is 1978?
Nahʔą Dehé in Dene means this poetic phrase describing the South Nahanni River.
A) River of many canyons
B) River of the land of the Nahʔa people
C) Big flow of water
D) Sacred river of valleys
What is “River of the land of the Nahʔa people”?
This reflects the literal translation of Nahʔą Dehé, the Dene name for the South Nahanni River
This feature is the largest tributary of the South Nahanni
A) Flat River
B) Masons Rock
C) Prairie Creek Mine
D) Liard River
What is Flat River?
During the last ice age (85 000–10 000 years ago), only the park’s edges were covered by ice. This ice age is called what?
A) Illinoian
B) Wisconsin
C) Holocene
D) Laurentide
What is the Wisconsin Ice Age?
This Dene geographer mapped 450 000 mi² of traditional territory, influencing land‑claim outcomes.
A) Phoebe Nahanni
B) David Etchinelle
C) Jean Poirel
D) Bill Mason
Who is Phoebe Nahanni?
Keels (Begaadeé) is the local Dene name for this major river (outside park).
A) Keele River
B) Liard River
C) Moose Ponds
D) Clearwater Creek
What is Keele River?