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Which province has the highest population in Canada?
Ontario
Name the 4 main cardinal directions
North, South, East, and West
How many provinces/territories does Canada have?
13
Canada can be divided into 5 different categories. Name the 4 other ones.
1. Atlantic Canada
2. C______ C________
3. P _______ P __________
4. N__________ T____________
5. W______ C________
Central Canada, Prairie Provinces, Northern Territories, West Coast (Pacific Region)
Name 5 different ethnicities you can run into while walking on the streets in Canada.
English, Irish, Scotties, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Columbian, Venezuelans, Iranian, Jamaican, Indian, Nigerian, and more...
Which provinces are part of the Atlantic Canada?
Which provinces are part of Central Canada?
Quebec and Ontario
Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
Which provinces are part of the Prairie Provinces?
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
Which province is in West Coast Pacific Region?
British Columbia
What is the name for French-speaking Canadians?
Francophones
What are two languages spoken in Central Canada?
Which province speaks which language?
Ontario - English
Quebec - French
Northern Territories occupy almost ___% of Canada's land. How much percentage is it?
40%
What does the word prairie mean?
Grassland. (Flat with few trees)
(there are also mountains, lakes, shorelines, and large cities).
Why is British Columbia called the West Coast Pacific Region?
Because the entire Pacific ocean coast line is in British Columbia.
Which ONE province in Atlantic Canada is officially bilingual (= French and English are both official languages) ?
New Brunswick
A v______ m________ is defined by Canadian law as someone who is not white and non-indigenous.
Visible minority
What is tundra?
Why is it difficult to live on tundra and how to people here survive?
Tundra is a barren land, no plants, that grows very little.
It is difficult to live because there's no food they can grow on this land. (No agriculture)
In order to survive, they have to learn how to hunt and stay warm.
Which ethnic group of people have lived in the Prairie provinces for the longest time? Which animal is crucial for their survival? (Food source)
The Indigenous People.
Bison (Buffalo) is crucial for their survival.
Which ethnic group highly populates B.C? And why is that so?
B.C. has the most concentrated population of Chinese in Canada because a lot of them came over during the Gold Rush.
What is Acadia and who are the Acadians?
Acadia is what French immigrants called the provinces in Atlantic Canada.
Acadians are people that lived in Acadia. (In the Atlantic provinces before Canada was a country).
Bill 101 ensures that French is spoken as their first language. According to this law, how do they have to make the signs in Quebec?
Must be written in French. If English is written, it has to be smaller than French.
Why are there so many Europeans in Yukon?
And which ethnic group has the highest population in Nunavut? Why is that?
Yukon has many Europeans because over 100,000 Europeans came over to at the Klondlike Gold rush.
Nunavut is mostly populated with the Inuit Peoples because they are experts are surviving at surviving in Arctic conditions.
Why are the prairie provinces called the breadbasket of Canada? And what culture is popular in the prairie provinces?
They produce massive amount of wheat, which is contributed to other parts of Canada and countries around the world.
Cowboy culture is popular in the Prairie Provinces.
What is a Totem Pole and who was it built by?
Totem pole is a monumental carving for representing and remembering ancestry, history, people, or events.
It was built by coastal First Nations, including Haida.