Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 5
Canada’s Landform Regions
Seven regions and the world’s big features.
What your child practises
Practises Canada's seven physiographic regions, including the Appalachian Region where New Brunswick sits, and the major physical features of the world. It follows the Grade 4 social studies skill descriptors on places and regions in the New Brunswick curriculum.
New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Geography: Places and Regions · the importance of major physical features of the world and Canada's seven physiographic regions
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
A plain is…
- a body of water
- a large area of flat land
- a very tall mountain
- a patch of ice
a large area of flat land
Hint: Plains are good for farming.
Question 2
Which Canadian region is the Rocky Mountains part of?
- the Appalachian Region
- the Hudson Bay Lowlands
- the Western Cordillera
- the Arctic Lands
the Western Cordillera
Hint: The Cordillera is a long chain of mountains in the west.
Question 3
Which of these landforms is very tall?
- a lowland
- a bay
- a plain
- a mountain
a mountain
Hint: A mountain rises high above the land around it.
Question 4
Which river is in Egypt and is one of the longest in the world?
- the Wolastoq
- the Mackenzie
- the Nile
- the Amazon
the Nile
Hint: The Nile flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.
Question 5
Which landform region covers most of the Prairie provinces?
- the Canadian Shield
- the Appalachian Region
- the Arctic Lands
- the Interior Plains
the Interior Plains
Hint: The Plains are flat and good for farming.
Question 6
Which region of Canada would you visit to see the Canadian Shield’s thousands of lakes?
- only the Atlantic coast
- only the Arctic islands
- only British Columbia
- central Canada, from Labrador to the Northwest Territories
central Canada, from Labrador to the Northwest Territories
Hint: The Shield is very large and curves around Hudson Bay.