1. CANADA – PHYSICAL FEATURES
Use the map on page 39 in the CRCT Test Prep book to help you identify the locations of important physical features. Place numbers on the map below to correspond with the locations of each feature.
1. Atlantic Ocean 4. Hudson Bay 7. Great Lakes 10. Rocky Mountains
2. Arctic Ocean 5. St. Lawrence River 8. Alaska
3. Pacific Ocean 6. Canadian Shield 9. USA

2. Physical Features of Canada – Page 39
Sharing its entire southern border with the United States, Canada is just ________________of the United States.
Connecting the northern Atlantic to Canada, the ______________________________extends far into the central part of the country.
One of Canada’s most important rivers is the _________________________which stretches from Lake Ontario in the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
The St. Lawrence was historically important because it allowed ______________________to travel deep in to North America by water.
Today the St. Lawrence is important as a source of __________________water as well as providing a route for ____________________.
6. Four of the five _____________________________(all except Lake Michigan) form part of the border with the United States.
7. Covering a large part of eastern and central Canada, the _________________________________________is an area with ancient , rocky, thin soil, rolling hills, and an abundance of lakes, rivers and _________________________resources.
8. In the west, the _________________________________________________are an extension of the mountain chain that runs 3,000 miles from new Mexico in the USA to British Columbia in Canada.
Canadian Shield explorers fresh Great Lakes Hudson Bay mineral north
Rocky Mountains St. Lawrence trade

3. Location, Climate, Population, and Physical Features
CANADA
Location, Climate, Population, and Physical Features
Instructions: Read the pages indicated in the CRCT Test Prep book to fill-in the blanks using the words found in the word bank for each section.
Location, and Population – Page 42
Canada is the __________________country in the western hemisphere, and ________________largest in land area in the entire world.
Canada’s ___________________border stretches across the United States and it shares part of its ___________________border with the state of Alaska.
Bounded by three oceans, the ________________is to the north, the ____________________to the east, and the ________________to the west.
Canada’s population density is quite __________, that is, there are very __________people compared to its total size.
Most Canadians live along its ______________________border, within 100 miles of the United States.
Most Canadians live in ______________areas (cities or towns), with only 20 % living in ______________areas.
The __________________________________________________connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean, thereby providing an important transportation route from the _____________________portion of the country to the east.
Canada has excellent ________________________and ______________________________that also carry goods to both the east and west coasts.
Nine major seaports help with international ________________.
Arctic Atlantic central few highways largest low Pacific railroads rural second
southern southern St. Lawrence River urban trade western

4. Climate, and Population – Page 43
The _________________of Canada keeps most people living in just a few areas.
The humid continental climate of the southeastern part of the county has warm to hot ____________________and cold ____________________.
The _______________________part of the country has a very cold subarctic to arctic climate.
There can be up to 60 inches of precipitation a year, exceeding 100 inches of ________________in the eastern part of the country.
The humid continental climate in _______________________and ______________________Canada allows for a long growing season and makes this area important for the production of canola, wheat, and other grain crops.
The _____________________coast’s climate is very rainy and temperate.
Being moderated by the ocean, summers are ____________________and winters ______________________along the Pacific coast than in other parts of the country.
The _______________________parts of Canada have cold temperatures year round, and for this reason, very few people ______________in this part of the country.
central climate cooler live northern northern Pacific snow southern summers warmer winters