Chapter 6: Canada Vocab

What is a province?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and have needles instead of leaves

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn

What is a territory?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and have needles instead of leaves

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn

What are coniferous trees?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and have needles instead of leaves

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn

What are deciduous trees?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and have needles instead of leaves

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn

What is an archipelago?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and have needles instead of leaves

• a group of islands

What is tundra?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and have needles instead of leaves

• a flat, treeless plain with permanently frozen ground

What is a fishery?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• an area where fish come to feed in huge numbers

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn

Who are Métis?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• the children of French and native peoples

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn

What does transcontinental mean?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• describing something that crosses a continent

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn

What is a granary?

• an administrative unit similar to a state

• land administered by the national government

• a building used to store harvested grain

• trees that shed their leaves in the autumn