The Cordillera
This rocky region includes a lot of minerals like iron, lead, zinc, silver, copper and nickel.
What are the most commonly mined minerals in the Cordillera?
The Arctic region includes the Arctic Ocean, Baffin Bay, part of Hudson Bay ect.
What are bodies of water in the Arctic?
Found in the badlands, these are tall, thin sandstone pillars.
What are hoodoos?
A common natural disaster in this region.
What is flooding?
This famous landmark is found in New York and Ontario.
What is Niagara Falls?
It is a mini-desert located in the Yukon territory that is considered the smallest desert in the world.
What is the Carcross Desert?
Diamonds, silver, iron, lead, and zinc are common in this region.
What are minerals in the Arctic?
The kind of natural disaster the Plains are known for.
What are tornadoes?
The Canadian Shield is home to many of this body of water.
What are lakes?
This archipelago of 1800 islands is found between the Canadian and US border.
What is Thousand Islands?
It is a Spanish word that means "mountain ranges."
What is cordillera?
A common natural disaster in the Atlantic region.
What are winter storms?
A unique type of wind, these warm, dry winds from the Pacific Coast blow past the Rocky Mountains into the prairies.
What is Chinook?
The theory that tells us that the Canadian Shield was once a very mountainous region.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
Almost 85% of this is made in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands.
What is maple syrup?
These are long, beautiful, narrow bodies of water formed by glaciers that you will find on the west coast of this region.
What are fjords?
This landform is a famous landmark and resides in the Atlantic.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Farther North, you will find a coniferous forest that can survive in difficult conditions, and in poor soil.
What is taiga?
Plate tectonics, glaciation, and erosion happen in this region.
What are natural processes?
This river connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
What is St. Lawrence River?
Many glaciers are present in parts of the cordillera. This glacier can be found in Banff National Park.
What is Peyto Glacier?
A natural wonder of North America in the Atlantic.
What is the Bay of Fundy?
This landform is called a pothole, slough, or marsh when found in the prairies.
What are wetlands?
The Canadian Shield is responsible for a specific kind of mining operation.
What are diamond mining operations?
A government agency administered by the government to protect Canada's 48 national parks.
What is Parks Canada?