Social Studies Canada Vocab

An administrative unit similar to a state.

• territory

• province

• shield

• deciduous

Lands administered by the national government.

• province

• states

• territories

• tundra

A large flat area of relatively flat land compromised of ancient, hard rock.

• tundra

• archipelago

• province

• shield

________ trees produce cones that hold seeds, and they have needles instead of leaves.

• coniferous

• deciduous

• tundra

• shield

_____ trees shed their leaves in the autumn.

• coniferous

• shield

• deciduous

• province

A group of islands.

• deciduous

• tundra

• territory

• archipelago

A flat, treeless plain with permanently frozen ground.

• archipelago

• tundra

• shield

• province

A _________ is an area where fish come to feed in huge numbers.

• archipelago

• fish home

• fishery

• sea territory

In the United States, the ______, or native, peoples who lived in North America before Europeans are called Native Americans.

• Metis

• Canadians

• British

• aboriginal

________ are children of the French and native peoples.

• aboriginal

• Canadians

• originals

• Metis