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Geography
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cordillera | a chain of mountains |
| Province | a region of a country, tract, or district |
| Timberline | the altitude of a mountain system at and above which trees do not grow |
| Chinook Winds | a wind phenomen in North America that causes dramatic warming during the winter |
| Overfishing | to exhaust the usable fish supply in certain waters |
| Parliamentary System | a representative government led by a parliament and a prime minister |
| Prime Minister | the executive of a parliamentary republic |
| Multiculture | the view that all cultures are equally valid and no culture is better than another |
| Quebecois | French speaking Canadians that live in Quebec |
| First Nations | the native peoples of Canada |
| Animist | religious belief that describes spiritual powers to animals, plants, and other aspects of nature (someone who follows this religion) |