Grassland Study Quiz

The Grassland Region is part of an enormous plain that stretches from

• Canada to the United States

• Canada to Mexico

• Canada to England

• Calgary to Winnipeg

This is an area that was poor for travelling through and was avoided by wagon trains.

• Goodlands

• Funlands

• Badlands

• Avoidlands

In the Grassland Region most of the water is used for

• Agriculture

• Lawns and gardens

• Meat packing industry

• Oil production

The area of Alberta that was thought to be great for growing crops but was found to suffer from droughts was called

• Roberts corner

• Palliser's Triangle

• Kevin's Cubby

• Peter's predicament

Often water is not found in places where we need it. To solve this Farmers use

• Prayer

• Interpretative dance

• Irrigation

• Irritation

Oil and gas are called this type of resource

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

When we looked at a picture of early Calgary these were missing

• Cars

• Trees

• Towers

• All of the answers mentioned

A problem that has occurred because of changes we have made to the land in the region is

• Many of the native animals are gone or endangered

• Houses are expensive and hard to find

• Gasoline is cheaper for our cars

• It is easier to travel around the city.

Fort Calgary was built by this group

• Hudson's Bay Company

• Texas Rangers

• North West Mounted Police

• Tsuu T'ina First Nation Members

The arrival of this lead to a large number of immigrants settling in the Grassland Region

• Airports

• Trains

• Buses

• Ranches