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  • 1. What percentage of Canada's population lives in Southern Ontario and Quebec?
A) About 50 percent
B) About 75 percent
C) About 10 percent
D) About 25 percent
  • 2. Which river valley attracted European immigrants and United Empire Loyalists?
A) The Fraser River Valley
B) The Hudson Bay River Valley
C) The Yukon River Valley
D) The lower Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Valley
  • 3. What significant political event took place in the region in 1867?
A) Independence from Britain
B) Establishment of Upper Canada
C) Creation of Lower Canada
D) Formation of the Canadian Confederation
  • 4. What is Southern Ontario's Golden Horseshoe known for?
A) Canada's largest forest area
B) A major agricultural region
C) Canada's industrial and manufacturing heartland
D) The site of the first Canadian Parliament
  • 5. How long is the densely populated urban ribbon in the Lowlands?
A) About 2000 km
B) About 500 km
C) About 1500 km
D) About 1000 km
  • 6. What percentage of North America's freshwater is held by the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region?
A) 30 percent
B) Over 80 percent
C) 10 percent
D) 50 percent
  • 7. What was the economy of the Lowlands valued at in 2014?
A) $CDN 7.2 trillion
B) $CDN 10 trillion
C) $CDN 5.8 trillion
D) $CDN 3.5 trillion
  • 8. What percentage of Canada's agricultural capacity is accounted for by the Lowlands?
A) About 50 percent
B) About 75 percent
C) About 10 percent
D) About 25 percent
  • 9. How many jobs do industries in the Lowlands provide?
A) About 70 million jobs
B) About 20 million jobs
C) About 100 million jobs
D) About 50 million jobs
  • 10. What is the area covered by the Utica shale in the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) About 32,000 square kilometres
B) About 8,000 square kilometres
C) About 24,000 square kilometres
D) About 16,000 square kilometres
  • 11. Which administrative regions include the Central Lowlands subregion?
A) Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
B) Montérégie, Centre-du-Québec and Chaudière-Appalaches
C) Alberta, British Columbia and Newfoundland
D) Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
  • 12. How many species of animals and plants are there in the Lowlands?
A) About 3,500 species
B) About 10,000 species
C) About 5,000 species
D) About 1,500 species
  • 13. Which bird is not characteristic wildlife in the Lowlands?
A) Hawks
B) Eagles
C) Penguins
D) Waterfowl
  • 14. Name a major city located in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands.
A) Montreal
B) Calgary
C) Edmonton
D) Vancouver
  • 15. Which First Nations group is one of the largest in North America?
A) The Mi'kmaq
B) The Inuit
C) The Haida
D) The Cree
  • 16. What was the traditional land of the Mohawk tribe?
A) The Prairies
B) The Arctic Circle
C) The Rocky Mountains
D) The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
  • 17. Which confederacy does the Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk belong to?
A) Cree Confederacy
B) Anishinaabe Confederacy
C) Salish Confederacy
D) Haudenosaunee Confederacy
  • 18. Which ecozone is described as the smallest of Canada's fifteen terrestrial ecozones?
A) Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
B) Boreal forest
C) Canadian Shield
D) Mixedwood Plains Ecozone
  • 19. Which ecozone overlaps with both the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone and the Canadian Shield?
A) Canadian Shield
B) Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
C) Boreal forest terrestrial ecozone
D) Mixedwood Plains Ecozone
  • 20. What type of bedrock outcrops are found in the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) Paleozoic limestone
B) Basalt
C) Granite
D) Sandstone
  • 21. Which physiographic region is bordered by the Eastern Quebec Uplands to the south?
A) The East Lowland
B) The Canadian Shield
C) The Central Lowland
D) The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
  • 22. What geological feature extends from Niagara Falls to Manitoulin Island?
A) The Appalachian Uplands
B) The Frontenac Axis
C) The Niagara Escarpment
D) The Laurentian Highlands
  • 23. Which axis is an exposure of Canadian shield rocks extending to the St. Lawrence River near Kingston?
A) The Appalachian Uplands
B) The Laurentian Highlands
C) The Frontenac Axis
D) The Niagara Escarpment
  • 24. Which island is separated from Newfoundland by stretches of open saltwater?
A) Manitoulin Island
B) Anticosti Island
C) Cape Breton Island
D) Prince Edward Island
  • 25. What contributed to the formation of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence basin about 7,000 years ago?
A) Volcanic activity
B) Desertification
C) The emergence from glacial sheets
D) Tectonic plate movements
  • 26. Which ancient sea contributed to the formation of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence region?
A) Lake Agassiz
B) The Black Sea
C) The Caspian Sea
D) The Mediterranean Sea
  • 27. What type of soils have accreted along the lower St. Lawrence Estuary?
A) Desert soils
B) Peat soils
C) Volcanic soils
D) Alluvial soils
  • 28. Which physiographic region in Eastern Canada does the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands belong to?
A) Southern Canada
B) Eastern Canada
C) Western Canada
D) Northern Canada
  • 29. Which of these urban areas is NOT a major city in the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) Ottawa-Gatineau
B) Montreal
C) Vancouver
D) Toronto
  • 30. What type of deposits cover the St. Lawrence Lowlands after the Pleistocene glaciations?
A) Surficial deposits
B) Sedimentary rock layers
C) Lava flows
D) Volcanic ash
  • 31. Which of these is a sub-region of the West Lowland?
A) Laurentian Highlands
B) Eastern Quebec Uplands
C) Frontenac Axis
D) Bruce Peninsula
  • 32. Which physiographic region is NOT one of Canada's seven regions?
A) The Cordillera
B) The Interior Plains
C) The Canadian Shield
D) The Rocky Mountains
  • 33. Which of the following is NOT a type of soil found in the area east of the Niagara Escarpment?
A) Lava rock
B) Peat
C) Clay
D) Muck
  • 34. Which physiographic region is located to the north of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) The Cordillera
B) The Canadian Shield
C) The Laurentian Highlands
D) The Hudson Bay Lowland
  • 35. Which sea contributed to the formation of the region along with Lake Agassiz?
A) The Champlain Sea
B) The Beaufort Sea
C) The Labrador Sea
D) The Hudson Bay
  • 36. Which provinces' premiers and Great Lakes governors signed the 2005 water agreement?
A) Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador
B) Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
C) Prince Edward Island, Yukon, Northwest Territories
D) Quebec, Ontario, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
  • 37. What type of shale is found in the Central Lowlands subregion?
A) Devonian shale
B) Utica shale
C) Berea sandstone
D) Marcellus shale
  • 38. Which of these animals is characteristic wildlife in the Lowlands?
A) Kangaroo
B) Giraffe
C) Black bear
D) Polar bear
  • 39. Name a bird species found in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands.
A) Flamingo
B) Parrot
C) Eagle
D) Penguin
  • 40. Which major urban area is located in the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) Vancouver
B) Calgary
C) Edmonton
D) Toronto
  • 41. What type of glacial feature is not found in the West Lowland?
A) Volcanic craters
B) Eskers
C) Lakes
D) Drumlins
  • 42. What type of soil is not found in the West Lowland?
A) Peat
B) Basalt
C) Clay
D) Silt
  • 43. Which physiographic region is not one of Canada's seven?
A) Hudson Bay Lowlands
B) Appalachian Uplands
C) Canadian Shield
D) Interior Plains
  • 44. Which major city is located in the Central Lowland?
A) Trois-Rivières
B) Montreal
C) Ottawa
D) Toronto
  • 45. Which of the following is not a characteristic wildlife species in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) Beaver
B) Black bear
C) Kangaroo
D) Grey wolf
  • 46. Which Indigenous group was traditionally the most easterly tribe of the Iroquoian-speaking Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) Ojibwe
B) Inuit
C) Mohawk
D) Blackfoot
  • 47. What attracted European immigrants and United Empire Loyalists to the lower Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Valley region?
A) Its mountainous terrain
B) Its desert climate
C) Its gold mines
D) Its diversified resource base
  • 48. In what year did the political consolidation of Upper Canada and Lower Canada form the core of the Canadian Confederation?
A) 1800
B) 1957
C) 1901
D) 1867
  • 49. Which of these is a characteristic soil type found in the West Lowland?
A) Basalt
B) Marl
C) Granite
D) Limestone
  • 50. Which major urban area is not located in the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) Montreal
B) Calgary
C) Toronto
D) Ottawa-Gatineau
  • 51. Where does the Frontenac Axis extend to near the St. Lawrence River?
A) Kingston
B) Québec City
C) Toronto
D) Montreal
  • 52. What is the approximate area in square kilometers of the St. Lawrence Lowlands ecoregion?
A) 30,000 km2
B) 60,000 km2
C) 50,000 km2
D) 41,770 km2
  • 53. Which city is not listed as part of the St. Lawrence Lowlands ecoregion?
A) Windsor
B) Ottawa–Gatineau
C) Québec
D) Montréal
  • 54. Which year did the Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement come into force?
A) 2020
B) 2005
C) 2015
D) 2010
  • 55. Which of these animals is not characteristic wildlife in the Lowlands?
A) Black bear
B) Grey wolf
C) Lion
D) Beaver
  • 56. The Cree are one of the largest groups among which group in North America?
A) First Nations
B) Asian immigrants
C) African communities
D) European settlers
  • 57. What type of relief characterizes the area east of the Niagara Escarpment?
A) Mountainous
B) High relief
C) Plateau
D) Low relief
  • 58. Which major urban area is located in both Ontario and Quebec within the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
A) Montreal
B) Toronto
C) Ottawa-Gatineau
D) Quebec City
  • 59. Which aquifers provide drinking water for Trois-Rivières and most other municipalities in the region?
A) Mixedwood Plains Aquifers
B) Great Lakes Aquifer System
C) Canadian Shield Water Reservoirs
D) St. Maurice Delta Complex
  • 60. Name a bird species found in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands.
A) Penguins
B) Eagles
C) Kangaroos
D) Llamas
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