Canada

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What is Canada's oldest business?

Hudson's Bay Company

3rd largest lake

Hurn

Name the Great Lakes

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

What is Canada's biggest resource?

Hydroelectric power

What are Canada's two official songs?

O' Canada, God Save the Queen

St. Lawrence River starts in Lake _______ and ends in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Ontario

One of the world's leading ____ producers

Ore

What is the capital of Canada?

Ottawa

Duties are exercised on the advice of the _____

PM

_______ is one of Canada's most natural resources

Paper

Canada is governed by a _____ _________ and __________

Prime minister and Parliament

Where did Canada get their motto?

Psalms 72:28

Canada is ___________________

Self governing

What consists of 105 members appointed by the Governor General?

Senate

Arctic Islands cold temperatures limit most ____ growth

Tree

NF is a result of difference between the elevation of lakes ____ and _______

Erie and Ontario

Larger than _________

Europe

Most Canadians are of ________ descent

European

_________ processing=a leading industry

Food

Southern part of Canadian Shield has softwood ______ supplying the pulp for the _______ industry

Forest, paper

What covers 1/3 of Canada?

Forests

Official motto _____ __ ____

From Sea to Sea

Where is the most heavily fished areas in the world?

Grand Banks

What is the largest lake entirely within canada?

Great Bear Lake

What is the 7th largest freshwater lake?

Great Ber Lake

What is the largest group of fresh water lakes in the world?

Great Lakes

_____ ______ and the canals make up the St. Lawrence Seaway

Great Lakes

What lake was named for the slavery Indians?

Great Slave

What is the worlds 9th largest freshwater lake?

Great slave

More than _____ of the coastline is along the Arctic Ocean

Half

British monarch is recognized as ____ __ _____

Head of state

Who sailed through the Hudson Strait and discovered Hudson Bay?

Henry Hudson

Who's crew set him adrift in Hudson Bay to die?

Henry Hudson

The Canadian Shield is mostly made up of _____

Hills

The Canadian part of Niagara Falls is called...

Horseshoe Falls (170 ft. High, and 2,000 ft. Wide)

What is the largest bay that is entirely within Canada?

Hudson Bay

While looking for the Northwest Passage Henry Hudson discovered ______ ___

Hudson Bay

Arctic Islands have a tundra or ______ climate

Icecap

The niagara fall is in ______ and ______ ______

Canada and United States

Canadian scientists designed a robotic arm called the _____________ fr the US space shuttle Challenger

Canadarm

What mountain range is in the west?

Canadian Rockies

What is a horseshoe shaped region that covers from Labrador in the northeast to the Arctic Ocean in the northwest?

Canadian Shield

______________ ___________ is where majority of minerals lie

Canadian Shield

Each province has its own ___________ and system of ___________

Capital, government

Who became the first modern explorer to discover the ew World

Christopher Columbus

Canada has the longest _________ of any country in the world

Coastline

Canada's climate is ____

Cold

Canada is a member of the __________________________________

Commonwealth of Nations

Warm ocean ________ keep ice from forming around the island

Currents

Southern Ontario is an area of _____ population

Dense

What are the two official languages of Canada?

English and French

Who discovered the Gulf of St. Lawreawrene?

Jacques Cartier

What explorer wanted to find a sea route to India

JohnCabot

____________ __________________ from Ontario became a missionary to China

Jonathan goforth

Who is the current PM?

Justin Trudeau

Comes from the Iroquois word _________

Kanata

Vancouver Island is the _______ island in North America

Largest

Who discovered the North American continents?

Leif Ericson

What were American colonists called who moved to Canada because they didn't want to fight against their king?

Loyalists

What are the Mounties motto?

Maintain the right

What is the Canadian symbol?

Maple leaf

_______ _____________ became the first Canadian to enter space when he went on a challenger research mission

Marc garneau

William Oiler influenced ________ progress

Medical

What is the only Great Lake hat doesnt touch canada

Michigan

Vancouver has the _______ climate in all of Canada

Mildest

____________ is off the east coast in the North Atlantic

Newfoundland

World leader in the manufacturing of ____________

Newsprint

Largest world producer of _________ and _______

Nickel and zinc

What is red, eleven-point maple leaf on a white field flanked by red bars on each side

The Canadian flag

Hard work and dedication to justice have earned them saying ______________________________

The Mounties always get their man

Prime minister's duties are similar to those of the__________________

U.S. President

What is Canada's largest trading partner?

US

________ is the capital of British Columbia

Victoria

Colonists in canada did not join in the American _____________________

War for Independence

Vancouver is the largest island on North America's ____ coast

West

From the ______ Ocean to the northern border of the ___

Arctic, US

Contain __ of the earth's freshwater supply

1/5

Canada is divided by _____ provinces and ____ territories

10, 3

Majority of Canadians live within _______ miles of the US border

100-200

Covers about _____ of North America

40%

Alert is ___ miles from the North Pole

500

Why did the French and Indian War end?

A treaty that gave most of france's North American possessions to Britain

The military base of ______

Alert

What is the American part of Niagara Falls called?

American Falls (180 ft high, 1000 ft across)

What mountain range is in the east?

Appalachian Mountains

__________ industry is a major business

Automobile

The Governor General i selected by the ______________

Canadian PM

Why did the French and Indian War start?

England and France both wanted to same land

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is between the island ____ __ _________ and the mainland on the east coast

Ille d'Anticosti

What group of Indians make their living by hunting and fishings

Inuits

What is the largest freshwater lake in the world?

Lake Superior

4th largest lake

Lake michigan

_______ __________, fundamentalist pastor, defended the Bible against liberalism

T. T. Shields

_________________ are sparsely populated and have capitals,but their governments are not as independent

Territories

Canadian North is one of the least ____ and ________ areas in the world

Used, deserted

________ is a world leader in trade

Canada

Canada lies within the ______ ______

Arctic Circle

The Arctic Islands lie within the ______ ______

Arctic Circle

Extends from the ________ Ocean to the _______ Ocean

Atlantic, Pacific

The Arctic Island includes three of the world's largest islands

Baffin Island, Victoria Island, and Ellesmere Island

What is the national animal?

Beaver

Canada recognizes the ____________ monarch as head of state

British

Where does the majority of lumber come from?

British Columbia

Governor general- personal representative of the ____________________

British monarch

Hudson Bay borders the provinces of ______, _______, and ________, and the territory of the ________ ______

Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba, and the Canadian Shield

Canadians led in using cobalt in _________ to treat cancer

Radiation

Deepest snow in the _______ Mountains

Rocky

Formed in 1873 to stop men from the US who were crossing the border and causing trouble Among the Canadian Indians by selling illegal whiskey to them; within three months the Mounties had restored order

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Mounties)

Who helped build the first French settlement in the New World in 1608

Samuel Champlain

Canada has poor ____ conditions

Soil

Victoria is on the ____________ tip of the island

Southeastern

Loyalists funded the city of __. ____, ___ ___________

St. John, New Brunswick

What is the largest inland seaway n the world?

St. Lawrence

What does "Kanata" mean in the Iroquois language?

village


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