Political vs. Physical Features
Provinces & Territories of Canada
Physical Features of Canada
Map Skills
100
This is the term used for a geographical feature that describes a man-made region with its own distinct government.
What is a Political Feature?
100
This group of political features in Canada are able to form their own governments and create their own laws under the national government, much like the States in the US.
What are Provinces?
100
I'm going to the beach! If I live on the Western coast of Canada in British Columbia, I am most likely to go swimming in this body of water.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
This map feature is a diagram featuring the four cardinal directions (and sometimes the 4 intermediate directions) that allows the viewer to determine the relative location of different locations on the map.
What is a Compass Rose?
200
This is the term used for a geographical feature where a physical feature of the Earth separates to regions from each other, such as a river or mountain range.
What is a physical boundary?
200
An easy way to recognize the Territories of Canada is by understanding that all of them exist in a region of Canada in this cardinal direction.
What is North?
200
If I was going on a tour of Canada's physical features, I would need to fly from Niagara Falls (a giant waterfall that flows into Lake Ontario) to the Rocky Mountains, I would need to fly in this cardinal direction.
What is West?
200
When looking at a map of Canada, I notice that different regions of Canada are colored differently. I'm unsure of what each of the the colors means, so I need to find this map feature to help me.
What is a Key?
OR
What is a Legend?
300
The country of Canada is made up of 10 provinces and 3 territories. The country itself, the provinces, and the territories are all examples of this geographical feature.
What is a physical feature?
300
The capitol city of Canada is Ottawa. It is located along the St. Lawrence River in this Canadian Province.
What is Ontario?
300
This is the body of water that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. It was widened by humans to allow large cargo ships to sail through it.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
300
The names of the 4 cardinal directions AND the names of the 4 intermediate directions.
What are North, South, East and West?
AND
What are Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, and Southeast?
400
Two boats crash land on either side of a deserted island. The island is entirely flat, with only sand, a small pond, and a few palm trees. With no physical features to guide them, the castaways would need to create this geographical feature in order to determine which group was in control of each part of the island.
What is a political boundary?
400
The names of the three Canadian Territories (100 bonus points if you are able to identify them from West to East).
What are Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut?
400
The Canadian Shield is a large geographical region that surrounds the Hudson Bay. Most of it is made of large amounts of this form of exposed rock.
What is Igneous Rock?
400
This type of map of Canada would display the country itself, its provinces and territories, and its cities, but it would NOT display physical features like mountains, forests, or climate.
What is a Political Map?
500
Physical boundaries are often used to help people create political boundaries. An example of this concept in action is Canada is this.
What are the Rocky Mountains (physical boundary between British Columbia and Alberta/Northwest Territories and Yukon)?
OR
What is the St. Lawrence River (physical boundary between Canada and the northeastern United States)?
500
The names of the 5 Canadian Provinces that Mr. Jenkins pointed out as the most important to recognize (200 bonus points if you are able to identify them from West to East).
What are British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador?
500
The names of all 5 Great Lakes from West to East.
What are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario?
500
Surprise Trivia! This province of Quebec is distinct from the others for a few reasons. Its primary spoken language is French instead of English, and its primary religion is Catholic Christian instead of Protestant Christian. There has been a movement for this province to become its own country for many years.
What is Quebec?