Quizlet MPCS7thGeographychs4and5

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  1. How many provinces are there in Canada?: 10
  2. How many territories are there in Canada?: 3
  3. What are 3 landforms that Canada shares with the United States?: 1) Appalachian Highlands and the Laurentian Highlands 2) the Great Plains 3) Rocky Mountains
  4. What are groups of mountain ranges that run side by side called?: cordilleras
  5. What are the names of the 10 provinces?: 1) Newfoundland and Labrador 2) Nova Scotia 3) New Brunswick 4) Prince Edward Island 5) Quebec 6) Ontario 7) Manitoba 8) Saskatchewan 9) Alberta 10) British Columbia
  6. What are the names of the territiories in Canada?: Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territory, and the Nunavut Territory
  7. What country did Vikings land in arond 1,000 A.D. finding grizzly bears roaming the western regions?: Canada
  8. What forms the major waterway linking central Canada with the Atlantic Coast?: the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes
  9. What is a landform that is shared by Canada and the United States?: the Rocky Mountains
  10. What is a prairie?: rolling, inland grassy area with fertile soil
  11. What is a province?: a regional political division in Canada as this country does not have states
  12. What is a tundra?: an area of vast rolling, treeless plains in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in summer.
  13. What is Canada's largest city?: Toronto
  14. What is the country with the second largest land area?: Canada
  15. What is the name of the horseshoe-shaped region that is wrapped around the Hudson Bay?: Canadian Shield
  16. What is the term for a sheet of ice that once covered most of Canada?: glacier
  17. Where does the world's longest undefended border lie?: between Canada and the United States
  18. Which territory came into being in 1999 and is the homeland of the Inuit?: Nunavut