United States and Canada

Question 1

Where does Canada fall in terms of size in the world?

Answer 1

2nd largest country - Russia #1

Question 2

Which 2 countries have the longest undefended border in the world?

Answer 2

The U.S. and Canada

Question 3

What is the difference between a province and a territory?

Answer 3

Provinces are like U.S. States, territories are led by the federal government

Question 4

Where do most people in Canada live?

Answer 4

90% live within 150 miles of the U.S. border

Question 5

What are the 3 territories?

Answer 5

Northwest territories, Yukon, and Nunavut

Question 6

What are the 10 provinces?

Answer 6

Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan

Question 7

What is the Canadian Shield?

Answer 7

A massive plateau that covers northern part of region (Quebec and Ontario)

Question 8

Which 2 provinces are covered mostly by forests?

Answer 8

Quebec and Ontario

Question 9

Where are the Canadian Rockies located?

Answer 9

Eastern edge of British Columbia

Question 10

Which mountain range is higher than the Rockies and located in British Columbia?

Answer 10

Coast Mountains

Question 11

What area of Canada is considered an archipelago?

Answer 11

Nunavut

Question 12

What is Canada’a highest peak?

Answer 12

Mount Logan

Question 13

Which 3 oceans border Canada?

Answer 13

Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic

Question 14

Which ocean is home to the Great Banks and profitable fisheries?

Answer 14

Atlantic

Question 15

Which inland body of water covers most of east central Canada and has Native people living around its shores?

Answer 15

Hudson Bay

Question 16

Which body of water did the U.S. and Canada come together to build and still share?

Answer 16

St Lawrence Seaway

Question 17

Which Great Lake does the U.S. NOT share with Canada?

Answer 17

Lake Michigan

Question 18

Which 2 lakes are located in the Northwest Territories?

Answer 18

Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake

Question 19

Which river starts in the Great Slave Lake and empties into the Arctic Ocean?

Answer 19

Mackenzie River

Question 20

Which river flows through the mountains of British Columbia?

Answer 20

Fraser River

Question 21

Who is the head of the federal government in Canada?

Answer 21

Prime Minister

Question 22

Which city is the government in Canada based?

Answer 22

Ottowa

Question 23

What are the 3 duties of Parliament?

Answer 23

Pass laws, approve and monitor spending, and keep the government accountable

Question 24

Give 2 similarities and 2 differences between the U.S. and Canadian governments?

Answer 24

-Both 3 levels and same types
-Canada led by Prime Minister, U.S. led by president
-Canada has parliament, U.S. has congress

Question 25

Which river runs from Minnesota 2,350 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico?

Answer 25

Mississippi River

Question 26

Which river begins in Pennsylvania and runs to the Mississippi River that also forms a border that separates Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois on the north and West Virginia and Kentucky on the south?

Answer 26

Ohio River

Question 27

The Appalachian Mountains are a long chain of mountains called a ____________.

Answer 27

Parallel mountain range

Question 28

Much of the Southeast has a humid ___________ climate with rainy, hot summers and cold, dry winters?

Answer 28

Subtropical

Question 29

Which region of the U.S. in the northeastern part of the U.S. and is where many of the first colonies of the U.S. were settled?

Answer 29

New England

Question 30

Which region of the U.S. is a long the Atlantic coast and includes Washington D.C.?

Answer 30

Mid-Atlantic

Question 31

Which region of the U.S. is nicknamed “the nation’s breadbasket”?

Answer 31

Midwest

Question 32

Which region of the U.S. is the largest and includes Alabama?

Answer 32

Southeast

Question 33

Which bodies of water are known as the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world?

Answer 33

Great Lakes

Question 34

Which body of water does the U.S. and Canada share?

Answer 34

St Lawrence river

Question 35

What mountain range near the Pacific coast still has active volcanoes?

Answer 35

Cascade Mountains

Question 36

What is the largest salt lake in the Americas, and changes size because of evaporation?

Answer 36

Great Salt Lake (Utah)

Question 37

Which lake was formed when the Hoover dam was built on the Colorado River?

Answer 37

Lake Mead

Question 38

Which river is one of the most important rivers West of the Mississippi, and begins in the Rocky Mountains and flows south and West to empty into the Gulf of California?

Answer 38

Colorado river