Beautiful British Columbia (BC)
Amazing Alberta (AB)
Sunny Saskatchewan (SK)
Marvellous Manitoba (MB)
Geography Vocabulary
100

This is the capital city of British Columbia

Victoria

100

What is its capital?

Edmonton 

100

This is the capital city of Saskatchewan.

Regina

100

What is its capital?

Winnipeg

100

These are three common types of moving or sitting water you can find on a map of Canada.

rivers, lakes, and oceans

200

This is the ocean on the west coast of British Columbia.

Pacific Ocean


200

These two beautiful and famous national parks are located in the mountains of Alberta.

Banff and Jasper

200

Saskatchewan is famous for growing huge amounts of this food crop.

wheat

200

This town in northern Manitoba is called the "polar bear capital of the world"

Churchill


200

These are two high, rocky landforms that you can climb. One is very big and steep, and the other is smaller and easier to walk up.

mountains and hills

300

Most of British Columbia is covered by these high, rocky geographic features, including the Rockies.

Mountains

300

This big Alberta city is a financial center and is famous for its cattle ranches and farms

Calgary

300

 Even though it can get as cold as $-40^\circ\text{C}$ in the winter, Saskatchewan is known as the most what place in Canada?

sunniest place

300

Manitoba has more than 38,000 lakes, but this one is the largest.

Lake Winnipeg

300

This vocabulary word describes a large, thick river of ice that moves very slowly down a mountain.

glacier

400

 Most people in British Columbia live in this part of the province, close to the United States.

South

400

Most of the land in Alberta is flat plain, but this high mountain range is in the southwestern part of the province.

Rocky Mountains

400

This city is the largest city in Saskatchewan, but it is not the capital. Its called Saskatoon, but what is its population?

a. 380 000

b. 580 000

c. 880 000

a. 380 000

400

 In the far north of Manitoba near Hudson Bay, the trees disappear and the ground is always frozen. This area is called the what?


a. prairie

b. tundra

c. pampa 

Tundra 

400

This is a deep, low area of land between two mountains or hills, often with a river running through it.

valley

500

What background do most people that live in BC have? 


European 

  • White: 59.6%
  • Chinese: 12.1%
  • South Asian: 9.8%
  • Filipino: 4.2%
  • Indigenous: 3.9%
  • Southeast Asian: 2.4%
  • Latin American: 1.9%
  • Black: 1.4%
  • Arab: 0.7%
  • Other / Multiple Ethnicities: 4.0% [1]
500

Alberta is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, who was the daughter of this famous British Queen.

Queen Victoria

500

The name Saskatchewan comes from a Cree word that describes this important geographic feature.

fast-flowing river

500

 Winnipeg is home to a famous national museum that teaches people about respecting other people. It is called the Canadian Museum for what?

Human Rights

500

This word describes a piece of land that has water all around it, like Vancouver sits on top of this.  

Island