The Seven Years' War
Québec
Potpourri
Regions
Cities
100
The war pitted these two European rivals against each other
What are France and the United Kingdom?
100
This city, Québec's largest, has the second-largest Jewish population in North America
What is Montréal?
100
A slowly moving mass of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow
What is a glacier?
100
The type of region constructed by one's own beliefs
What is a perceptual region?
100
This U.S. city boasts the second-largest port facility on the East Coast
What is Baltimore?
200
The decade the war began
What is the 1750s?
200
The name of the 1960s nationalistic movement in Québec
What is the Quiet Revolution?
200
The water route that connects New York City with the American interior
What is the Erie Canal?
200
The type of region with distinct borders that has a certain degree of homogeneity of one or more characteristics
What is a formal region?
200
This planned city designed by Pierre L'Enfant was built on land ceded by the state of Maryland
What is Washington, D.C.?
300
Often described as a world war, much of the fighting took place in these two world regions
What are Europe and Eastern North America?
300
The Act invoked in 1970 following the kidnapping of Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte
What is the War Measures Act?
300
The imaginary line formed by points along eastern U.S. rivers that were the limit of accessibility for ocean-going ships
What is the Fall Line?
300
The type of region defined by having a core and a periphery
What is a functional region?
300
Founded by William Penn, this city was the largest and most important American city in colonial times
What is Philadelphia?
400
The number of years the war lasted
What is nine?
400
One of two symbols on Québec's provincial flag
What are the fleur-de-lis and the Christian cross?
400
The drainage basin of a single river system
What is a watershed?
400
One cultural criteria used to define regions
What are population, language, religion, politics, economic development, etc.?
400
This Canadian city is the home of the Royal Navy
What is Halifax?
500
Located off the coast of Newfoundland, these two islands were all that was left of the defeated country's North American empire following the end of the war
What are St. Pierre and Miquelon?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What are the Roman Catholic church, the French language, and/or French legal traditions?
500
The study of the patterns of landforms on the Earth's surface
What is geomorphology?
500
One physical criteria used to define regions
What are landforms, climate, precipitation, ecosystems, biomes, etc.?
500
This city, the oldest English-founded city in North America, was founded in 1497 by John Cabot
What is St. John's?