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How many provinces and territories are in Canada?
10 provinces and 3 territories
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Where do most Canadians live?
Near the St. Lawrence River
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What is the largest city in Canada?
Toronto
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What are Canada's major economic activities?
Manufacturing, farming, and service industries.
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Where is the leading manufacturing region of Canada?
Ontario
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Where is Canada's main Pacific port?
Vancouver
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Who heads the government in Canada?
The Prime Minister
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What type of government does Canada have?
Parliamentary Democracy
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What is the highest peak in Canada:
Mt. Logan
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What kind of economy does Canada have?
A free market economy
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What territory was created in 1999 as a homeland for Canada's Inuit people?
Nunavut
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The soil of the Canadian Shield is poor, but rich in__________?
mineral resources
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To open the Great Lakes to shipping, Canada and the US built___________?
The St. Lawrence Seaway
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What are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward island known as?
Maritime Provinces
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Which city is Canada's center of manufacturing, finances, and communication?
Toronto
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What city is the national capital of Canada?
Ottawa
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Who explored and colonized Canada?
British and French
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Who chooses Canada's top government official?
representatives in Parliment
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Many people in Quebec want the province to become___________.
an independent country
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A self governing nation (Canada) that accepts the British monarch as head of state
Dominion
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What is a group of mountain ranges that run side by side?
Cordillera
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What is a rolling, inland grassy area with fertile soil
Prairie
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Vast rolling, treeless plains in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in summer
Tundra
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Name 4 mineral resources found in the Canadian Shield.
iron ore, copper, nickel, and gold
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Define province
A regional political division
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Who were the first people to live in Canada, before European settlers?
Inuit and other Native North Americans
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What does Nanavut mean?
"our land"
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Which province is the world's leading producer of newsprint?
British Columbia
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What kind of economy does Canada have?
Free market
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Of what religion are most Canadians?
Roman Catholic or Protestant
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Who won control of Canada after the wars in the 1600s and 1700s
British
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In 1867, Britian united with the Canadian colonies to form what?
The Dominion of Canada
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