A World of Words: Canada - Middle School and High School

O Canada! Review this vocabulary list and explore the largest country in North America. You'll learn about the geography of Canada's provinces and territories, natural resources such as lumber and minerals, and the Canadian government, including parliament and the prime minister.
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  1. aboriginal
    relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
  2. acid rain
    precipitation with toxic gas emissions combined with water
  3. agriculture
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
  4. Alberta
    one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada
  5. alluvial
    relating to deposits carried by rushing streams
  6. Appalachian Mountains
    a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States
  7. arctic
    extremely cold
  8. Arctic Ocean
    ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole
  9. Atlantic Ocean
    the 2nd largest ocean
  10. autonomy
    political independence
  11. bilingual
    using or knowing two languages
  12. border
    a line that indicates a boundary
  13. boreal
    toward or located in the north
  14. British Columbia
    a province in western Canada
  15. Calgary
    the largest city in southern Alberta
  16. Canadian dollar
    the basic unit of money in Canada
  17. Canadian Shield
    a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
  18. chamber
    a deliberative or legislative or administrative assembly
  19. climate
    the weather in some location averaged over a period of time
  20. coast
    the shore of a sea or ocean
  21. coastal
    of or relating to the shoreline
  22. colonialism
    exploitation by a stronger country of a weaker one
  23. colony
    a geographical area controlled by a distant country
  24. Columbia River
    a North American river
  25. commonwealth
    a political system in which power lies in a body of citizens
  26. curling
    a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target
  27. deforestation
    the state of being clear of trees
  28. democratic
    based upon the principles of social equality
  29. dominion
    a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
  30. economy
    the system of production and distribution and consumption
  31. Edmonton
    the capital of the province of Alberta
  32. export
    sell or transfer abroad
  33. extraction
    taking out something
  34. federal
    of a government with central and regional authorities
  35. forestry
    the science of developing and caring for wooded areas
  36. fossil fuel
    energy-producing substance derived from preserved organisms
  37. French Canadian
    a Canadian descended from early French settlers and whose native language is French
  38. glacier
    a slowly moving mass of ice
  39. gold rush
    a large influx of people to an area rich in precious metal
  40. habitable
    fit to be lived in
  41. Halifax
    provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia
  42. highland
    elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
  43. Hudson Bay
    an inland sea in northern Canada
  44. hydroelectricity
    electricity produced by water power
  45. ice hockey
    a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
  46. immigration
    movement of people into a country or area
  47. import
    bring in from abroad
  48. independent
    free from external control and constraint
  49. indigenous
    originating where it is found
  50. industrialization
    the development of commercial enterprise
  51. Inuit
    a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic
  52. Labrador
    the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada
  53. Lake Erie
    the 4th largest of the Great Lakes
  54. Lake Huron
    the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes
  55. Lake Ontario
    the smallest of the Great Lakes
  56. Lake Superior
    the largest freshwater lake in the world
  57. Laurentian Highlands
    a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
  58. Laurentian Plateau
    a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
  59. livestock
    any animals kept for use or profit
  60. lumbermill
    a mill for dressing logs and lumber
  61. Mackenzie River
    a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea
  62. Manitoba
    one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada
  63. manufacturing
    the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
  64. maritime
    bordering on or living near the sea
  65. Metis
    a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry
  66. mining
    the act of extracting ores or coal from the earth
  67. mineral
    a solid inorganic substance occurring in nature
  68. monarch
    a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right
  69. Montreal
    a city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world
  70. NAFTA
    an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico; became effective in 1994 for ten years
  71. Native American
    pertaining to Indigenous people in living in the Americas or to their culture or languages
  72. natural gas
    a fossil fuel in the gaseous state
  73. natural resource
    material in the environment that can be used by people
  74. Newfoundland
    an island in the north Atlantic
  75. North America
    a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
  76. Northwest Territories
    a large territory in northwestern Canada
  77. Nova Scotia
    the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns
  78. Nunavut
    an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago
  79. Ontario
    a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada
  80. Ottawa
    the capital of Canada
  81. Pacific Ocean
    the largest ocean in the world
  82. parliament
    a legislative assembly in certain countries
  83. parliamentary democracy
    a democracy having a parliament
  84. permafrost
    ground that is permanently frozen
  85. plateau
    a relatively flat raised area of land
  86. prairie
    a treeless grassy plain
  87. precipitation
    the falling to earth of any form of water
  88. prime minister
    head of government, especially of a parliamentary democracy
  89. Prince Edward Island
    an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
  90. province
    the territory in an administrative district of a nation
  91. Quebec
    the largest province of Canada
  92. Quebec City
    the French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec
  93. runoff
    the occurrence of surplus liquid exceeding capacity
  94. Saint John River
    a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy
  95. Samuel de Champlain
    French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)
  96. Saskatchewan
    one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada
  97. secession
    formal separation from an alliance or federation
  98. senate
    assembly possessing high legislative powers
  99. separatist
    an advocate of secession or independence from a larger group
  100. settler
    a person who resides in a new colony or country
  101. St. Lawrence River
    a North American river
  102. St. Lawrence Seaway
    a seaway involving the Saint Lawrence River and the Great Lakes that was developed jointly by Canada and the United States; oceangoing ships can travel as far west as Lake Superior
  103. technology
    the practical application of science to commerce or industry
  104. telecommunication
    (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance
  105. territory
    a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
  106. timber
    the wood of trees prepared for use as building material
  107. topography
    the configuration of a surface and its features
  108. Toronto
    the provincial capital and largest city in Ontario
  109. transportation
    a facility for the movement of passengers or goods
  110. tundra
    a vast treeless plain where subsoil is permanently frozen
  111. urbanization
    the social process whereby cities grow
  112. Vancouver
    a port city in southwestern British Columbia on an arm of the Pacific Ocean opposite Vancouver Island; Canada's chief Pacific port and third largest city
  113. Winnipeg
    the capital and largest city of Manitoba
  114. Yukon
    a territory in northwestern Canada
  115. Yukon River
    a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea
Created on Fri Jan 13 14:22:09 EST 2017 (updated Wed Apr 05 17:01:16 EDT 2017)

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