Ch. 2 Canada My World Geography

amount of rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls in an area

• tundra
• weather
• stars
• precipitation

area with limited vegetation (moss & shrubs) and freezing temps last through the winter and summer (rarely gets higher than 50F)

• snow
• precipitation
• compromise
• tundra

soil that never thaws

• tundra
• dominion
• glaciers
• permafrost

area where waters mix and stir up nutrients from ocean floor, providing a good space for plankton and then fish eat the plankton

• leaves falling
• Canada
• snow
• mixing zone

establishing comon ideas that people agree to follow

• province
• power
• violence
• compromise

Native groups who lived south of the Arctic region in Canada, sharing similar lifetsyles

• reservations
• Native Americans
• Indians
• First Nations

area of Canada claimed for France (1534) near the St. Lawrence River

• Minnesota
• Alaska
• New Amsterdam
• New France

territory under control of a larger country

• states
• regions
• counties
• province

territory that governs itself but is still tied to its colonizing country

• places

• regions

• melting pot

• dominion

people from different areas retain their cultural identity

• food
• religion
• countries
• cultural mosiac