Canada Political/Landforms
Which of the following landforms are not in Canada? a. Rocky Mountains b. Appalachian Mountains c. Baffin Islands
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
These are the 3 oceans that surround Canada.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans?
This is the Province or Territory where the Inuit were relocated to.
What is Nunavut?
This group of people was looking for a route from Europe to Asia when they arrived off the eastern coast of Canada in the late 1400s. Who was the explorer?
Who are the British? Who is John Cabot?
Native groups who traveled to Canada first through the Bering Land Bridge. How many groups did they consist of? What was the most prominent group?
What are the First Nations? What is 12? What is the Inuits?
This is the area of land that surrounds the Hudson Bay in the center of Canada.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This is the body of water that runs northward into the Arctic Ocean.
What is the Mackenzie River?
This war defined the US-Canadian border and was the first step in unifying all Canadians.
What was the War of 1812?
Instead of a trade route, Europeans found these resources that they did not possess back home, peaking their interest to stay along the coast of Canada.
What are the fish and fur trades?
This is the word for the form of government Canada has today headed by a Prime Minister.
What is a Federation?
Which of the Following is not a territory of Canada? a. Manitoba; b. Yukon; c. Nunavut
What is Manitoba?
The primary river on the East Coast of Canada where the French traversed in discovering Canada, also a major trade route for the country.
What is the Saint Lawrence River?
This Law gave French Canadians in Quebec the right to continue practicing the Catholic religion and allowed French civil law.
What is the Quebec Act?
In 1534, this person arrived in eastern Canada and claimed the land for France, naming it New France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
These are the two primary religions of Canada. These are the two primary languages of Canada. This language is the most widely spoken in Canada.
What are Protestantism and Catholicism? What are English and French? What is English?
This is the capital of Canada. Point to where it is on the map.
What is Ottawa?
These are the two lakes located in the Northwest Territories (from North to South).
What are The Great Bear Lake and The Great Slave Lake?
These were the first four provinces of Canada.
What are Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia?
The French were also interested in the fur trade near Hudson Bay. Who built the first permanent settlement for the French in the New World capitalizing on this trade with the Inuits?
What is Samuel de Champlain?
These two parts of Canada were unified in 1841, establishing the "Province of Canada" (from north to south).
What are Lower Canada, and Upper Canada?
There are this many provinces and this many territories in Canada. *Bonus Points for naming all of them*
What is 10 provinces and 3 territories?
What are the five Great Lakes from left to right? Label them on the map.
What is Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Huron, and Lake Erie.
In what year was the Transcontinental Railroad built? Whose land was it built on?
What was 1886? Who are the Inuit (First Nations)?
These people were the first European Settlers to settle into Canada (excluding the Inuit).
What are the Norse Invaders?
This Statute made Canada a free and equal member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, granting them their legislative independence from the British.
What is the Statute of Westminster?