Provinces and Territories
This is the province where Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, is located.
What is Ontario?
This region is known for its flat land and rich soil, perfect for farming.
What are the Interior Plains?
Trees used to make paper and furniture come from this type of natural resource.
What is forestry?
Cities are examples of this type of land use.
What is urban?
This is the name for the symbol that shows direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
This province is known for its large oil sands and prairie landscapes.
What is Alberta?
This region has tall, jagged mountains and is located in the west.
What is the Western Cordillera?
Alberta is most famous for this natural resource used for fuel.
What is oil?
Farming and agriculture are examples of this type of land use.
What is rural?
This direction is between north and east.
What is northeast?
This territory is home to the capital city Iqaluit.
What is Nunavut?
This physical region has rocky ground and many lakes, and covers much of Ontario.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This resource is mined from the ground and includes gold, copper, and diamonds.
What are minerals?
This is one way people change the land to make it useful for them.
What is building roads or farming?
The line that separates the United States from Canada is called this.
What is the border?
These two provinces are connected by the Bay of Fundy.
What are New Brunswick and Nova Scotia?
The St. Lawrence Lowlands region is important because of this major feature.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
The Atlantic region relies heavily on this renewable natural resource.
What is fish (or fishing)?
Cutting down too many trees without replanting causes this environmental issue.
What is deforestation?
This is used to find distances on a map.
What is a map scale?
This is the only officially bilingual province in Canada. What are the other two provinces that are also bilingual?
What is New Brunswick? Quebec and Ontario have many bilingual speakers but Quebecs official language is French and Ontario is English
This region in Canada is mostly made up of frozen tundra.
What is the Arctic region?
This resource, found in British Columbia, helps generate hydroelectric power.
What is water?
People protect the land by doing this instead of throwing away resources.
What is recycling or conservation?
These are imaginary lines that run east-west across the globe.
What are lines of latitude?