Canada: Vocabulary Flashcards
Vast treeless land found in the Arctic
Tundra
Dividing a large area into smaller sections based on geographical or cultural differences
Regionalism
A slow down in an economy
Recession
A smaller part of a larger country
Province
The leader of a country that has a Parliamentary Democracy.
Prime Minister
A large grassland
Prairie
How much people there is in a given area
Population Density
Oil
Petroleum
Permanently frozen ground
Permafrost
A democratic form of government in which candidates are elected to a parliament.
Parliamentary Democracy
The process of becoming a citizen of a country
Naturalization
The first people who settle in a piece of land
Indigenous
A large block of ice that can create rivers
Glacier
The term Canada uses for its Native population
First Nations
Having control over your own country
Dominion
A wide variety of something
Diversity
A monarchy shares power with a democratically elected government.
Constitutional Monarchy
A large area of exposed bedrock surrounding Hudson Bay in Canada
Canadian Shield
A person who speaks two languages
Bilingual
Self-rule
Autonomy
The always cold region of the Earth from the Arctic/Antarctic Circles to the poles.
Arctic
