Canada Fun Facts
This animal is on the Canadian nickle
The Beaver
Find the area of a triangle with base 10 cm and height 6 cm.
What is 30 cm²?
The largest mammal on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
This animal is a national symbol of China and loved by kids around the world.
What is the panda?
The hottest layer of Earth is called this.
What is the core?
This Canadian City is home to the largest underground shopping mall in the world.
Toronto
A parallelogram has a base of 9 cm and height of 5 cm. What’s the area?
What is 45 cm²?
This reptile has been on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs.
What is the crocodile?
On Lunar New Year, kids in China often receive these red envelopes with money
What are hóngbāo (red packets)?
This gas is the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
Every July, this city hosts a famous rodeo called the Stampede.
Calgary
You’re designing a triangular banner with sides 7 cm, 9 cm, and 10 cm. What is its perimeter?
What is 26 cm?
This mammal lays eggs.
What is the platypus?
This long holiday in October is also called "Golden Week" in China.
What is National Day?
The process by which plants release water vapor into the air.
What is transpiration?
This Canadian invention makes it easier to carry milk, and sometimes maple syrup in schools.
The milk bag
A trapezoid has base lengths 6 cm and 12 cm, and a height of 5 cm. What’s the area?
What is 45 cm²?
This Arctic mammal’s tusk is actually a tooth.
What is a narwhal?
This popular app from China is used for chatting, paying for things, and even games.
What is WeChat?
The movement of tectonic plates causes this type of natural disaster.
What are earthquakes?
This is Canada's oldest National Park
Banff National Park
An irregular shape is made of a rectangle (6×4 cm) and a triangle (base 6 cm, height 3 cm). What’s the total area?
What is 33 cm²?
These insects are responsible for pollinating one-third of the food we eat.
What are bees?
This delicious dish is often served in bamboo steamers and includes dumplings like siu mai and har gow.
What is dim sum?
This is the term for permanently frozen ground.
What is permafrost?
This Canadian coffee shop is known for "Roll up the Rim"
Time Hortons
A triangle has an area of 42 cm². If the base is 7 cm, find the height.
What is 12 cm?
This type of fish can generate electric fields to navigate and hunt.
What is the electric eel?
These tiny water-filled toys are launched during summer and called "water bombs" or "shui qiu" in Mandarin.
What are water balloons?
This is the line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This famous Canadian tower was once the tallest structure in the world.
The CN tower
A parallelogram has an area of 72 cm² and base of 8 cm. Find the height.
What is 9 cm?
This organism lives in coral reefs and can change gender during its lifetime.
What is a clownfish?
This famous wall is so long it can be seen stretching across mountains and deserts.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This is the process of breaking down rocks by wind, water, or ice.
What is weathering?
This Canadian city has un underground city or shops and passagesways used mostly in the winter.
Montreal
You build a garden in the shape of a trapezoid: bases are 10 m and 14 m, and height is 6 m. What’s the area?
What is 72 m²?
This bird migrates from the Arctic to Antarctica, one of the longest migrations known.
What is the Arctic tern?
Many kids learn this beautiful art form that involves black ink, brushes, and Chinese characters.
What is calligraphy?
These underground layers hold water and can be tapped into by wells.
What are aquifers?
This strnage law in Souris PEI says its illegal to build what thing taller than 30 inches.
A snowman.
A complex figure has a triangle (base 12 m, height 4 m) and a parallelogram (base 10 m, height 5 m). Find the total area.
What is 24 + 50 = 74 m²?
This mammal can survive high altitudes by changing the shape of its red blood cells, and lives on the Tibetan Plateau.
What is the yak?
This festival includes mooncakes and celebrates the moon, family, and a woman named Chang’e.
What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?
This ocean current keeps northwestern Europe warmer than other areas at similar latitudes.
What is the Gulf Stream?