Physical Landscapes
This massive region of ancient rock, lakes, and boreal forest covers over half of Canada's land area.
What is the Canadian Shield?
Most Canadians live within 160 kilometers (100 miles) of the border of this neighbouring country.
What is the United States?
When Canada buys goods or resources from another country to bring into Canada, it is called an _____.
What is an Import?
Canadian physical education teacher James Naismith invented this popular court sport in 1891 using two peach baskets.
What is Basketball?
This famous Canadian delicacy made of fries, cheese curds, and warm gravy originated in Quebec in the 1950s.
What is Poutine?
This major mountain range stretches along the border between Alberta and British Columbia.
What are the Rocky Mountains (or Rockies)?
Created in 1999, this northern territory is Canada's newest territory and a homeland governed largely by the Inuit people.
What is Nunavut?
When Canada sells goods made here (like wheat, lumber, or auto parts) to other countries, it is called an _____.
What is an export?
Sir Frederick Banting and his team at the University of Toronto discovered this life-saving medicine in 1921 to treat diabetes.
What is Insulin?
Global pop icons Drake, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Shawn Mendes were all born in this Canadian province.
What is Ontario?
These five massive freshwater lakes sit along the border between Canada and the United States.
What are the Great Lakes?
These two languages are the official national languages spoken across Canada.
What are English and French?
Canada is part of CUSMA (formerly NAFTA), a free trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and this country.
What is Mexico?
Canadians created this winter vehicle with skis on the front and tracks on the back to travel across heavy snow.
What is the Snowmobile (or Ski-Doo)?
This animal is Canada's official national emblem because of its historic importance to the fur trade.
What is the beaver?
This northern biome features permafrost (permanently frozen ground), no trees, and extremely cold winters.
What is the Tundra (or Arctic region)?
Because Canada welcomes immigrants from all over the world who keep their unique cultural traditions, Canada is often called a "cultural _____."
What is a Mosaic?
Canadian military personnel sent to help keep peace in areas affected by global conflict are called _____.
What are Peacekeepers?
This giant robotic arm built for NASA space shuttles and the International Space Station is an iconic symbol of Canadian technology.
What is the Canadarm?
This major Canadian city is known as "Hollywood North" because so many movies, superhero shows, and TV stars film there.
What is Vancouver (or Toronto)?
This major river connects the Great Lakes directly to the Atlantic Ocean, acting as a crucial shipping route.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This term describes a settlement pattern where homes and farms line up along a river, coast, or highway.
What is a Linear settlement?
This international organization, founded after WWII with Canada as a founding member, works to promote global peace, security, and human rights.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This Scottish-born Canadian inventor patented the first practical version of this everyday communication device in 1876.
What is the Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)?
Co-created by Toronto-born artist Joe Shuster, this iconic comic book hero's fictional home city of Metropolis was actually modeled directly after the city of Toronto.
Who is Superman?