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This term refers to water falling from clouds; rainfall, snow, sleet or hail
What is precipitation?
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This factor accounts for a place's position with regard to north/south and how that place receives solar heat
What is latitude?
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The Northernmost and generally coldest climate region
What is the Arctic?
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This Canadian city struggles with homelessness and large numbers of people living/sleeping in the streets
What is Vancouver?
100
This type of boat is an invention of the Inuit
What is the kayak?
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This term refers to atmospheric conditions over a long period of time
What is climate?
200
This factor influences temperature with places usually being colder the higher they are above sea level
What is elevation?
200
Canada's warmest year-round climate region
What is the Temperate West Coast?
200
The Haida and Salish were native peoples who created these massive artworks on Canada's West coast
What are totem poles?
200
This phenomenon common in Canada's north is formally known as aurora borealis
What are the Northern Lights?
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This is the term for on who studies and predicts weather patterns
What is a meteorologist?
300
The Jet Stream and the Polar Vortex are examples of these...
What are air currents?
300
The largest climate region in Canada
What is the subarctic?
300
The term for indigenous people of Canada's arctic
What is Inuit?
300
Helicopter Canada is a sweet movie produced by this national film-making authority
What is the National Film Board?
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Precipitation that results from the sun's warming of the earth's surface and heating the air above, causing condensation and eventually rain
What is convectional precipitation?
400
Saint John, NB and Vancouver, BC have very different climates but they are both influenced by this factor
What is proximity to large bodies of water? (oceans)
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This region includes the Atlantic provinces as well as southern Quebec and southern Ontario
What is the Temperate East Coast?
400
This is Canada's most northern permanent settlement
What is Arctic Bay, Nunavut?
400
A poem by Robert Service that deals with survival, death and the strangeness of Canada's north during the Klondike Goldrush
What is the "Cremation of Sam McGee"
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This is a device that measure atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
500
Relief Precipitation is a direct result of these physical landforms
What are mountains?
500
Along with the right physical conditions, the long, hot summers in this region allow for excellent farming, particularly wheat growing operations
What is the Semiarid Prairie?
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This machine is an invention of Joseph Armand Bombardier and the Quebec Company that bears his name
What is the snowmobile?
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Author who wrote "To Build a Fire" - a short story about freezing to death in the arctic
Who is Jack London?