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What is climate?
The long term characteristics of weather.
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Define a natural resource.
Occurs naturally in nature and is used to our benefit.
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What province is growing the fastest in Canada?
Alberta
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Identify the six essentials that must be on every map.
Title, Scale, Legend, Date of Publication, Direction, Border
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What province is most densely populated?
PEI
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In 1867 was Canada more urban or rural?
Urban
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What is the Prime Meridian?
Lines of Longitude on a map that joins the North and South poles.
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Name five great lakes.
Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario, Superior
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Identify six factors that affect climate.
Latitude, Ocean Currents, Wind, Elevation, Relief, Near Water
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Name all the capitals of the provinces in Canada.
- British Columbia: Victoria
- Alberta: Edmonton
- Saskatewan: Regina
- Manitoba: Winnipeg
- Ontario: Toronto
- Quebec: Quebec City
- Nova Scotia: Halifax
- New Brunswick: Fredericton
- PEI: Charlottetown
- Newfoundland and Labrador: St. Johns
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What body of water lies north of Ontario, west of Quebec, and east of Manitoba?
Hudson's Bay
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In which ecozone is Courtice located?
Mixedwood Plains
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Through which city does the Prime Meridian run through?
Greenwich, UK
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Name the four major sources of energy in Canada.
Electricity, Coal, Gasoline, and Natural Gas
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What is Stewardship?
Responsibility to the environment
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What is the green house effect?
When heat is trapped by the earth's atmosphere.
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Name three types of rocks in the rock cycle?
Sedimentary, Metamorphic, Igneous
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In what directions do the lines of longitude run?
East and West
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How long does it take a renewable resource to replenish it's self?
100 years.
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List three natural resources.
Oxygen, water, coal, fish, trees, the sun, peach, rivers, soil, etc.
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Name two top visible minorities.
Blacks, Filipinos, Latin Americans, Arabs, Southeast Asians, West Asians, Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese.
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Name two atmospheric conditions.
Temperature, Precipitation, Humidity, Wind Speed/Direction, Air pressure.
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