Geography
Canada
Cape Breton
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The world's smallest desert is located in this territory.

What is the Yukon?

This desert is located in Carcross, Yukon covering approximately 600 acres.

100

This city is the polar bear capital of the world.

What is Churchill Manitoba?

Polar bears outnumber the people.

100

The name of the plane that took its first flight in Baddeck in 1909.

What is the Silver Dart?

100

Julius Ceasar was the emperor of this empire.

What is the Roman Empire?

100

The hottest planet.

What is Venus?

Venus's thick atmosphere traps heat creating a runaway greenhouse effect - making it the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead.

200

The imaginary line in the middle of the earth.

What is  the equator?

200

This province has the second highest number of French speaking people.

What is New Brunswick?

200

It was a memorable year for the Margarees when the highway between Southwest Margaree and East Margaree was completed and electricity finally arrived.

What is 1939?

200

The organ that controls all the other organs.

What is the brain?

200

The planet that rains diamonds.

What is Neptune?

The eighth planet from the sun, has some extreme weather. Scientists believes that it's so hot and pressurized on Neptune that it can rain diamonds How cool it would be to see a diamond shower!

300

They allow geographers to analyze more data at once and to get updates more often so they can track change.

What is satellite images and computers?

300

Canada's national animal.

What is the beaver?

The beaver became the national symbol of Canada in 1975. It seems like a strange choice but the beaver played a large role in building the nation.  The country was built on the fur trade and the beaver was in high demand for its pelt

300

The oldest settlement in Cape Breton.

What is Judique?

In 1717, Michael Mor Macdonald spent his first winter using his upside down boat as shelter.

300

The amount of sides a quadrilateral has.

What is 4?

300

The four planets in our solar system that have rings.

What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?

Saturn, which has by far the largest ring system, was known to have rings for a long time. It was not until the 1970s that rings were discovered around the other gas planets.



400

The name of the world's largest desert.

What is the Antarctic Polar Desert?

It covers 1.4 million square kilometers

400

The biggest area of water in Canada that is not the ocean.

What is the Hudson Bay?

400

The length of the Margaree River.

What is 120km?

400

The amount of centimeters in a meter?

What is 100?

400

The coldest planet in our solar system.

What is Uranus?

Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the solar systme; a very chilly -224 degrees C.   The temperature on Neptune is still very cold, of course - usually around -214C but Uranus beats that,

500

The imaginary lines going up an down and measuring W/E.

What is longtitude?

500

The name of the 3 recognized Indigenous populations of Canada.

What is First Nations, Inuit and Metis?

500

The tree below the creamery was victim to this disease.

What is Dutch Elm Disease?

500

The capital of Australia.

What is Canberra?

500

The first Canadian to travel to space.

Who is Marc Garneau?  

The year was 1984. 

Garneau is a Quebec City native with a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and a background in the Canadian Navy.