Canada Physical Features
The area to the east of the Rocky Mountains is known as the Interior Plains and is supported by which industry?
What is farming?
The population in northern Canada is described as what because of the harsh cold climate and the frozen tundra.
Sparse
In addition to clear-cutting of timber and over mining in the minerals in the Canadian Shield, this is the other environmental issue facing Canada.
What is acid rain
What resource is found in almost all parts of Canada?
Timber
What is the climate like in Canada?
A mild climate with cold winters and hot summers.
What are the three oceans that form Canada's coast and which coast does each one contact or touch?
What is the Pacific on the west coast, the Artic on the north coast, and the Atlantic on the east coast?
A mild climate with plenty of rain would likely have this type of population?
Dense
This occurs when air pollution combines with water molecules in the atmosphere? It also results in loss of habitat to animals, kills fish, pollutes the land, and destroys building.
What is Acid Rain?
What is a main resource you could find in the Canadian Shield?
Minerals
Why do many Canadians live within 100 miles of the United States border?
In the north the climate is harsh.
This river connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
What is the St. Lawrence River
This area of Canada has the highest population distribution.
What is the region near the Great Lakes and the United States' border?
Building factories that pollute less, lower vehicle emissions, regulating industries, and encouraging people to walk or ride a bicycle are ways Canada is reducing what?
What is reducing and air pollution and acid rain?
Nickel, copper, gold, silver, zinc, and uranium are all minerals that can be found throughout which region?
What is the Canadian Shield?
The region around the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River is densely populated, what is the climate like in this area?
What is a mild, temperate climate?
The area known as the Canadian Shield is so important to Canada because it has a lot of what?
What is Minerals
The population around the St. Lawrence river is?
What is Densely Populated?
What is the effect of acid rain in Canada?
What is it pollutes the water, harms fish, kills trees, and damages farm land.
True or False: The Canadian Shield is rich in minerals.
True
In what hemispheres is Canada located?
What is northern and western hemispheres?
This large geographic feature dominates northern Canada.
An area with limited natural resources would likely have what level of population?
What is a low population distribution which is sparsely populated?
This is the main cause of acid rain in the Great Lakes region.
What is burning fossil fuels in factories and vehicles?
What valuable resource supports Canada's economy that comes from the Atlantic, Artic, and Pacific Oceans?
What is Fish or fishing?
Which country forms Canada's southern border?
The United States