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Grade 3 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 6

Our Territory: Nunavut

Places, symbols and facts about Nunavut.

What your child practises

Covers Nunavut's regions, capital, communities, symbols and landscape. Some names are written in Inuktitut. Nunavut-only content, written from Government of Nunavut sources; it needs review by Inuit partners.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: Elementary Social Studies (NWT, 1993), Geography · Nunavut's regions, communities, symbols and landscape

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    In summer the sun can stay up all day and all night in the far north. What is this called?

    • Sun dog
    • Polar vortex
    • Northern lights
    • Midnight sun

  2. Question 2

    Rankin Inlet is a hub community in which region?

    • Nunatsiavut
    • Kitikmeot
    • Kivalliq
    • Qikiqtaaluk

  3. Question 3

    Which of these is one of Nunavut's three regions?

    • Nunavik
    • Dehcho
    • Qikiqtaaluk
    • Nunatsiavut

  4. Question 4

    Which kind of land has no tall trees and low plants growing over frozen ground?

    • Prairie
    • Tundra
    • Rainforest
    • Desert

  5. Question 5

    What is Nunavut's territorial bird?

    • Gyrfalcon
    • Canada jay
    • Rock ptarmigan
    • Common loon

  6. Question 6

    Is Nunavut the largest or the smallest of Canada's provinces and territories by area?

    • Smallest
    • Same size as Nova Scotia
    • Same size as Ontario
    • Largest

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