Thoughtful Stuff
- Where do you see most of the highways?
- Where do most of the people live?
- Why are there so few roads in the middle of Australia?
- What draws people to the more heavily populated areas?
Map these places
On the map provided (or the one linked to), identify the following geographic features of Canada
| Cities |
Rivers/Lakes |
Mountains |
Provinces/Territories |
- Victoria
- Vancouver
- Whitehorse
- Edmonton
- Calgary
- Regina
- Saskatoon
- Winnipeg
- Toronto
- Ottawa
- Iqaluit
- Montreal
- Quebec
- St. John
- Fredericton
- Halifax
- Charlottetown
- St. John's
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A. Fraser River
B. North Saskatchewan River
C. South Saskatchewan River
D. Nelson River (these three are a linked system)
D. Red River
E. Ottawa River
F. St. Lawrence River
G. Hudson Bay
H. James Bay
I. Gulf of St. Lawrence
J. Mackenzie River
- Lesser Slave Lake
- Great Slave Lake
- Great Bear Lake
- Lake Winnipeg
- Lake Superior
- Lake Huron
- Lake Erie
- Lake Ontario
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- Rocky Mountains
- Laurentian Mountains
- Saint Elias Mountains
- Columbia Mountains
- Canadian Shield
- Appalachian Mountains
|
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Saskatchewan
- Manitoba
- Ontario
- Quebec
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Prince Edward Island
- Yukon
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
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Deep Questions to Answer
After you have mapped out all the things asked for, looked closely at your map and try to answer a few questions. - Where are the major population centres?
- Is there any similarity in their locations?
- From what you know of Canadian history, which cities were established first? Why were those the first?
- Which cities were established later?
- Why were those the next group of communities to be established?
- In what areas do most people live?
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