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1
The Innuition Mountains were created when the North American plate ...
pushed against the Mexican Plate
pushed against the Pacific Plate
pushed against the Arctic Plate
pushed against Europe / Africa
2
True/False: The Innuition Mountains has the smallest number of people than any other Region
True
False
3
"Blue Mountain" is part of the Niagara _____________ highland.
Ski
Escarpment
Casino
Falls
4
This photo, taken in New Brunswick's Fundy National Park is an example of:
All of the above
Flowerpots
Wave erosion
A Tourist site
5
Some of the oldest fossils on earth have been found at this location:
Mistaken Point, Newfoundland
Cavendish, PEI
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Fredericton, New Brunswick
6
This landform region has the oldest rocks at 3.96 billion years.
Canadian Shield
Innuition Mountains
Western Cordillera
Appalachian Mountains
7
The Great Lakes Lowland Regions has _____ % of Canada's Population
60
40
25
50
8
The 3 Mountain Regions of Canada are called . . .
Western Cordillera / Innuitions / Appalachians
Innuition / Cascade / Blue
Rockies / Coastal / Columbia
Rockies / Appalachian / Columbia
9
What has been and still is one of the greatest challenge for Canadian engineers?
Finding flat land for cities
Finding wood for buildings
Communicating with people because of the high mountains
Creating roads or rail lines from east to west
10
The Bay of Fundy is most famous for its highest ______ in the world!
Trees
Rock Cliffs
Mountains
Tides
11
The Appalachian Mountains were created when North America was pushed up against . . .
The Pacific Plate
Arctic Plate
Europe / Africa
The Equator
12
The Interior Plains is famous for:
Ranching
Mining
All of the Above
Farming
13
The Canadian Shield a few billion years ago was . . .
Under the ocean
A mountain that was up to 12km high
Pushed up against Pangaea
At the equator
14
After the last ice age, the river valleys in the Western Cordillera contained:
Killer Wales (orca's)
Igneous rocks
Fjords
Oil deposits
15
The Great Lakes Region is known as Canada's _______ heartland
Industrial
Automobile
Assembly
Transportation
16
The Atlantic Coast of Canada is most famous for:
Forestry
Fishing
Dancing
Rick Mercer
17
The last ice age pushed the Appalachians down, the land sank when the ice melted it created a
Drowned Coastline
Morraine
Coal Mine
Fjord
18
One of Canada's most popular and beautiful tourist routes goes around Cape Breton Island, named
The Cartier Loop
John A. MacDonald Path
Cabot Trail
Champlain's Way
19
What is the smallest landform region within Canada by size?
Appalachian Mountains
Atlantic Region
Great Lakes / St. Lawrence Lowlands
Innuition Mountains
20
What is the largest landform region within Canada by surface area?
The Hudson Bay / Arctic Lowlands
The Western Cordillera
The Canadian Shield
The Interior Plains
21
The Western Cordillera contains some of the last _____ south of the Arctic region
Fishing villages
Glaciers
Gold mines
Polar bears
22
The Canadian shield consists of many . . .
Trees
Metallic Minerals
All of the Above
Lakes
23
The Interior Plains region is comprised mainly of _____________ rock.
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
24
This image is an example of:
Stalacmites
Human Sculptors
Stalactites
Differential Erosion
25
The Hudson Bay Arctic Lowland has few people because
There are no roads or farms
It is so far north
All of the above
It is very swampy when not frozen
26
Today the Grand Banks also contain another valuable resource for Newfoundlander's, it is...
Hibernia oil fields
Whale watching tours
Dinosaur fossils
Iceberg tours
27
The St. Lawrence occurred as a result of double faulting where the middle land to drop-called:
Rift Valley
Depressed River
Canyon
Drowned River
28
The grain and oil seeds grown in the Interior Plains gave this region the nickname: Canada's __
Grainlands
Breadbasket
Cereal Region
Wheat Fields
29
Which of Canada's Landform Regions is the furthest north?
Hudson Bay / Arctic Lowland
Innuition Mountains
Western Cordillera
Canadian Shield
30
The Western Cordillera, in Canada, is comprised of 3 mountain ranges, they are:
Rockies / Columbia / Cascade
Rockies / Columbia / Coastal
Rockies / Columbia / Sierra Nevada
Rockies / Appalachian / North Face
31
One occupation you don't normally find on the Canadian Shield is . . .
Mining
Tourism
Farming
Fishing
32
The most famous animal in the Hudson Bay Arctic Region is the . . .
Elk
Moose
Polar Bear
Caribou
33
True / False: The Appalachian Mountains are the
oldest
current mountain region of Canada.
False
True
34
The process of extracting minerals from other rock bits is called . . .
Smelting
Sedimentation
Weathering
Erosion
35
The Great Lakes St Lowlands region was gouged out by and has sediments left from:
A Giant Tsunami
Earthquake
Mountain Erosion
Glaciers
36
The fishing is so good of the Coast of Newfoundland, because of the Continental Shelf called:
The Grand Banks
Cape Cod
A fisherman's paradise
Anglers Way