Cities and Provinces
Government
Natural Resources
Geography Vocabulary
Canada and the World
100

This is Canada's most populous province...and the one you live in.

What is Ontario?

100

This is the title given to the leader of the federal government of Canada.

Who is the Prime Minister?

100

This resource, found in abundance in the Boreal Forest, is used to make paper.

What is Timber (or wood, or trees)?

100

These are the four main points on a compass: North, South, East, and West.

What are Cardinal Directions?

100

In terms of total land area, Canada is the __________ largest country in the world.

What is Second? (After Russia)

200

This city is the capital of Canada and is located in Ontario.

What is Ottawa?

200

These are the three levels of government in Canada.

What are federal, provincial and municipal?

200

These "Great" bodies of water contain about 20% of the world’s surface fresh water.

What are the Great Lakes?

200

This part of a map explains what the different symbols and colors stand for.

What is a Legend (or Key)?

200

When Canada buys goods from another country—like bananas or electronics—it is called this.

What is Importing?

300

This province is the only one in Canada where French is the only official language.

What is Quebec?

300

This level of government is responsible for local services like garbage collection and libraries.

What is Municipal?

300

This type of resource, like wind or solar energy, can be replaced naturally over time.

What is a Renewable Resource?

300

This is the imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South Poles.

What is the Equator?

300

Canada is a member of this group of 56 countries, most of which were formerly part of the British Empire.

What is the Commonwealth?

400

These three provinces—Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba—are known by this collective name.

What are the Prairie Provinces?

400

This is the building in Ottawa where federal laws are debated and passed.

What is the Parliament Buildling?

400

This massive physical region covers half of Canada and is famous for its rocks and minerals.

What is the Canadian Shield?

400

This term describes the weather patterns in a specific area over a long period of time.

What is Climate?

400

Because Canada is so wide, it is divided into this many different time zones.

What is Six?

500

This is the newest territory in Canada, created in 1999 as a homeland for the Inuit.

What is Nunavut?

500

This person represents the British Monarch (the King) in Canada at the federal level.

Who is the Governor General?

500

This resource is extracted from the "Oil Sands" in Alberta and is a major Canadian export.

What is Crude Oil (or Oil or Petroleum)?

500

This is the study of the Earth’s physical features and how humans interact with them.

What is Geography?

500

This is the current name of the trade agreement between Canada, the USA, and Mexico that allows goods to move easily across North America.

What is CUSMA (or the USMCA)?