Glossary

Agriculture - The science of growing food.

Agriculture - The science of growing food.

Arctic - the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole.

Atlantic - The ocean located on the eastern side of North America.

Banks - The land on each side of a river.

Canola - A plant whose seeds are used to make food oil.

Challenges - Many tests or difficult tasks.

Cleared - To remove something entirely from an area or place.

Example: They cleared the trees off the land.

Climate - The kind of weather an area has over a long period of time.

Coastal - Related to an area where the land meets the sea.

Cordillera - a mountain range

Example: Cordillera regions in Western Canada that includes areas of the Rocky Mountains.

Crucial - Extremely important 

Different - Not the same.

Erosion - To wear away.

Famous - Very well known.

Fertile - capable of producing abundant crops or plants.

Example: The fertile soil produced lots of apple trees.

Forestry - The science of growing and caring for trees and forests.

Generate - To produce, create

Glaciers - Large masses of ice that move slowly.

Great Canadian Shield - is the largest mass of exposed rock on the face of the Earth. It includes the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Harvest - To gather crops.

Hemlock - A type of evergreen tree.

Hiking - To take a long walk.

Hydro Electricity - Any electricity that is generated by the flow of water.

Ice Age - An Ice Age is a period of time, typically about 30 million but occasionally as long as 300 million years, during which ice sheets cover at least the Earth's polar areas.

Ice Caps - Smaller glaciers that form in basinlike depressions in a mountain.

Industry - The process of making products by using machinery and factories 

Interior - Located on the inside of something.

Journey - An act of traveling from one place to another.

Landscape - An area of land that has a particular quality or appearance. 

Example: The landscape in the Cordillera region can be mountainous. 

Lowland - A region close to sea level.

Lumber - Wood cut to various lengths and sizes for building houses, furniture.

Maritime - Related to the ocean or the sea; collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Minerals - Inorganic (non-living) substances found naturally in the earth such as iron, copper, or zinc.

Natural Resources - Useful things that we use which are provided by nature.

Off Shore Drilling Rig - A large structure used to house workers and machinery to drill wells in the ocean floor to extract oil or natural gas.

Peninsula - A long, narrow strip of land surrounded by water and connected to the mainland.

Perma Frost - Soil that stays frozen all year.

Pingos - Are hills of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic, subarctic, and Antarctica that can reach up to 70 metres in height and up to 2 kilometres in diameter. The term originated as the Inuit word for a small hill.

Plain - A wide area of flat land.

Polar Ice Pack - Large areas of packed ice formed from sea water in the Arctic regions; also known as polar ice caps.

Potash - A substance used as fertilizer and rich in potassium; an important nutrient for plants.

Pulp - Any thick soup-like mass: Paper is made from wood pulp.

Recreation - Fun things to do such as sports or hobbies.

Referred to - to speak of; to point out.

Region - An area of land that has unique features, such as climate, landforms, and natural resources. 

Example: The Cordillera Region; The Arctic Region

Regions - Several areas of land that are unique from each other such as landforms, climate, and natural resources. For example, Canada has six main regions.

Resources - Useful things.

Example: Our province has many natural resources such as tress, oil, and fruit.

Soil - The top layers of earth in which plants grow.

Surround - To extend all around something; to encircle.

Example: The mountains surrounded the lake.

Tourism - Tourism is the practice of traveling for pleasure. It is also the business of providing tours and services for tourists.

Transport - To move.

Trapping - To hunt animals by catching them in a trap.

Tundra - Treeless flat land found mostly in the Arctic.

Unique - One of a kind.

Uranium - A heavy metallic chemical that is radioactive and used to power nuclear power plants.

Wore Down - Break down over a long period of time

Zinc - A basic metal with many uses.