This region has permafrost all year long, only allowing small plants to grow.
What is the Arctic?
100
The captial city of this province is Toronto
What is Ontario?
100
This tells us what the map is showing
What is a title?
100
Hydro-electric power is generated from falling water. This is one place in Ontario where lots of power is created
What is Niagara Falls?
100
What is the job of a conservationist?
What is promoting the preservation of areas which are significant in their natural state?
200
This region was created by glaciers during the last Ice Age.
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
This is the smallest province
What is Prince Edward Island?
200
This gives us direction on a map
What is a compass?
200
We can make bread from this natural resource which is produced mostly in the Interior Plains.
What is wheat?
200
Name one way that people have damaged the earth
What is littering, polluting waterways, using up natural resources, destroying native vegetation, farming methods,overusing water supplies, polluting the atmosphere?
300
This is the region that Kitchener-Waterloo is located in. It has plains and hills, forests with both deciduous and coniferous trees and hot humid summers.
What is the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
300
They call this province the 'rock'
What is Newfoundland and Laborador?
300
Only this is coloured blue on a map
What is water?
300
Pulp and paper is made from this natural resource.
What are trees?
300
Name one organization that helps to protect the environment.
What is the World Conservation Union, Greenpeace and the WWF (World Wildlife Fund)?
400
This region has mountain ranges which were created millions of years ago when folds of rocks pushed up on each other.
What is the Cordillera?
400
This territory borders Alaska
What is the Yukon?
400
This uses symbols to tell us what different things are on a map
What is a legend?
400
A non-renewable resource cannot be replaced once it has been used up. Name one non-renewable resource that is produced in Canada.
What is oil, natural gas, minerals, coal?
400
What is the purpose of a provincial park?
What is protect the environment while still allowing people to see and enjoy the natural beauty?
500
Name all six of the geographical regions in Canada
What is the Cordillera, the Interior Plains, the Arctic, the Canadian Shield, the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Appalachian Highlands?
500
This was the last province or territory to be established in Canada.
What is Nunavut?
500
These are the invisible lines that surround the earth and help us to locate different places on a map
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
500
This resource is found by digging deep below the earth and helps us produce things like coins.
What are minerals?
500
Name one thing that people can do to change their lifestyles.
What is saving energy by buying energry-efficient electrical goods, saving water by fixing leaking faucets, riding a bike or walking to school, recycling, donating clothes and household items to charities?