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Q: Students in Kitchener, Q: Which backyard structure would Q: Wooden nesting boxes placed Ontario, have restored, on their you install to attract purple martins, around a schoolyard help birds that school grounds, a portion of which locally agile birds that eat thousands of bugs a would normally nest in: a) winter, b) holes endangered ecosystem? day? a) a nesting platform, b) a multi-unit in trees, c) barns, d) all of the above a) temperate rainforest, b) tundra, birdhouse, c) a winter bird roost, d) all of (A: b, holes in trees) c) Carolinian forest, d) all of the above the above (A: b, a multi-unit birdhouse) Q: Île Brion Provincial Ecological (A: c, Carolinian forest) Q: Which Provincial Park in the Reserve protects primitive forests Q: The willow trees in Katannilik City of Calgary, Alberta, is one of typical of the Magdalen Islands maritime Territorial Park on Baffin Island, the largest urban parks in North landscape. In which province is this eco- , are the tallest trees in the America? (A: Fish Creek Provincial Park) logical reserve located? (A: Quebec) region and can be as tall as: Q: Which National Park protects a Q: About how many square kilo- a) 3.6 metres, b) 9.6 metres, c) 15.6 very rich, 515 million-year-old fossil metres of Canadian wilderness are metres, d) 21.6 metres (A: a, 3.6 metres) deposit known as the Burgess Shales? currently set aside as National Parks and Q: You might visit natural hot (A: Yoho, British Columbia) National Park Reserves? a) 22,000, springs here, at ’s first b) 229,700, c) 2,200,000 (A: b, 229,700 Q: Nahanni National Park Reserve National Park. (A: Banff, Alberta) square kilometres) was declared as a World Heritage Q: Which spectacular Site in 1978 by the United Nations Q: The Ramsar Convention on Newfoundland National Park is Educational, Scientific and Cultural Wetlands is the only global environ- also listed as a World Heritage Site by Organization. In which Province or mental treaty that deals with a particular the United Nations Educational, Territory is this reserve located? ecosystem. It lists: a) wetlands of interna- Scientific and Cultural Organization? (A: Northwest Territories) tional importance, b) endangered species, (A: Gros Morne) c) endangered ecosystems (A: a, wetlands of international importance)

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Q: Why should you clean old nests Q: A school group in Prince Q: Which of the following animals out of your bird boxes every fall? Edward Island installed bat roosts could a bird-bath in your backyard a) as a courtesy to the birds, b) so the in a nearby park. What do these simple attract? a) songbirds only, b) birds and birds will fit, c) to get rid of dangerous structures give bats? a) a place to rest, small mammals, c) birds and amphibians, parasites (A: c, parasites) b) a place to find insects, c) a place to d) all of the above (A: d, all) get nectar (A: a, a place to rest) Q: What type of legally protected Q: Who worked to protect the area, used for recreation and Q: What type of protected area springs and delicate mineral for- wilderness preservation, is the responsi- preserves representative and special mations at Coal River Springs Territorial bility of provincial and territorial govern- ecosystems, plants, and animals? Park in the Yukon? a) the Liaird First ments? a) National Parks, b) Provincial or a) Ecological Reserves, b) municipal parks, Nations, b) the Yukon government, Territorial Parks (A: b, Provincial or c) your backyard (A: a, Ecological Reserves) c) the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Territorial Parks) d) all three groups (A: d, all) Q: Name at least one National Q: Which of the following species Park that is entirely above the Q: Which National Park in Ontario are endangered and protected in Arctic Circle. (A: any of the following: overlooks Georgian Bay and protects National Parks? a) the black bear, b) the Tuktut Nogait, Aulavik, Auyuittuq, some of the diverse ecology of the Niagara whooping crane, c) the snow goose, Quttinirpaaq, Sirmilik, Vuntut, Ivvavik, and Escarpment? (A: Bruce Peninsula, Ontario) d) the spotted salamander (A: b, the Ukkusiksalik) Q: About how many hectares world- whooping crane—the remaining species Q: How many countries have wide are designated as Wetlands of have healthy populations across Canada) signed a global environmental International Importance by the Ramsar Q: The Ramsar Convention on treaty, called the Ramsar Convention on Convention on Wetlands? a) 122, Wetlands has identified how many Wetlands, to designate sites as Wetlands b) 122,691, c) 122,845,699 (A: c, 122,845,699 Wetlands of International Importance in of International Importance? a) 41, hectares as of December 2004) the world? a) 13, b) 138, c) 1,401 b) 144, c) 82 (A: b, 144 countries as of (A: c, 1,401 wetlands as of December 2004) December 2004) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: If you wanted to provide a Q: To create a hibernating place Q: Each spring, students near backyard hiding place for small for toads in your backyard, you Lindsay, Ontario, place signs on the wild animals you could make a pile of: should fill a hole with soft sand to which roadside to warn motorists to watch for a) rocks, b) brush, c) logs, d) any of the depth? a) 10 centimetres, b) 1 metre, which wild animals? a) turtles, b) polar three (A: d, any) c) 2 metres, d) any depth is good bears, c) mosquitoes, d) all of the above (A: b, 1 metre) (A: a, turtles) Q: Which Territorial Park in Nunavut protects four distinct Q: Which activities are permitted Q: What is the best way to travel plant communities, including snowpatch, in the undisturbed alpine and sub- through a fragile ecological dwarf shrub/heath, and grasslands tun- alpine ecosystems protected by British reserve such as Alberta’s Kennedy dra communities? (A: Katannilik Territorial Columbia’s Gladys Lake Ecological Coulee? a) all terrain vehicle, b) bike, Park) Reserve? a) photography, b) fishing, c) hike, d) all of the above (A: c, hike) c) camping, d) all of the above Q: Which National Park is located Q: Which National Park, known as (A: a, photography) in both a province and a territory? “Land’s End,” is found at the east- (A: Wood Buffalo, Alberta/Northwest Q: Which National Park protects ern tip of the Gaspé Peninsula? Territories) the unique plants and animals of (A: Forillon, Quebec) the most southern point in mainland Q: Which Ramsar-designated Q: Which government agency Canada? (A: Point Pelee, Ontario) Wetland of International looks after Canada’s responsibility Importance is the largest wetland com- Q: Which government agency to protect Ramsar-designated Wetlands plex in the Yukon, provides important looks after Canada’s responsibility of International Importance? (A: the habitat for hundreds of thousands of to protect World Heritage Sites? Canadian Wildlife Service, part of migratory birds and contains more than (A: Parks Canada) Environment Canada) 2,000 ponds and marshes scattered on a northern Canadian plain? (A: )

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Q: If you wish to create habitat in Q: What is the minimum size for a Q: As a rule, which of the following your schoolyard for a local animal, good backyard or schoolyard habi- are better to plant for local wildlife? what habitat components should you tat project? a) 10 square metres, b) 100 a) plants native to a region, b) specially consider? a) food, b) water, c) shelter, square metres, c) no minimum (A: c, no developed plants, c) exotic plants from d) space, e) all of the above (A: e, all) minimum) warm countries (A: a, native plants) Q: What are the main purposes of Q: About how many pairs of Q: What is the largest Migratory Nova Scotia’s Nature Reserves, such seabirds gather at Newfoundland’s Bird Sanctuary in Canada, at 11.2 as Bornish Hill? a) recreation, b) scientific Witless Bay Seabird Ecological Reserve to million hectares? (A: research, c) protect representative exam- breed each year? a) 1,000,000 pairs, Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Nunavut) ples of natural ecosystems (A: b and c) b) 500,000 pairs, c) 2,000 pairs Q: At which Provincial Park in (A: a, 1,000,000 pairs) Q: What types of areas, protected Ontario can you join park staff by Canadian law, are part of a Q: What types of areas are pro- every August to howl for the eastern nationwide system of representative nat- tected as part of a national net- wolf? (A: Algonquin Provincial Park) ural areas of Canadian significance? work to protect migratory birds and their Q: Which Arctic coastal wetland (A: National Parks and/or National Park habitat? a) Migratory Bird Sanctuaries, plain in Nunavut is a Ramsar-desig- Reserves) b) National Wildlife Areas, c) both nated Wetland of International (A: c, both) Q: Which Ramsar-designated Importance and is also a Migratory Bird Wetland of International Q: Which Ramsar-designated Sanctuary and serves as summer nesting Importance near Edmonton, Alberta, is Wetland of International grounds for up to 2 million birds? designated a vital area for migrating Importance is one of the world’s largest (A: Dewey Soper Migratory Bird shorebirds and waterfowl, and is threat- freshwater delta and is actually made up Sanctuary) ened by agricultural run-off and of three neighbouring river deltas? drought? (A: ) (A: Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: You can best improve your Q: What living things are best to Q: Good diversity of wildlife habi- backyard soils to help wildlife by keep urban backyards and school- tat can be created in your school- adding: a) pesticides, b) fertilizer, c) nat- yards cool on hot, dusty days? a) grass yard by: a) planting different types of ural compost (A: c, natural compost) and flowers, b) trees (A: b, trees) plants, b) planting different sizes of plants, c) arranging plants in different Q: One main reason for the Q: Chum salmon swim several groups, d) all of the above (A: d, all) Yukon’s Fishing Branch Ni’iinlii’njik thousand kilometres upriver from Park is to protect habitat for which the Bering Sea to spawn in which Q: The brown thrasher that is pro- species of bear? a) the black bear, b) the Territorial Park in the Yukon? (A: Fishing tected in Alberta’s Kennedy Coulee polar bear, c) the grizzly bear (A: c, the Branch Ni’iinlii’njik Park) Ecological Reserve is: a) a fighting type grizzly bear) of fish, b) a bush-loving bird, c) an Q: At which latitude would you aggressive rattlesnake (A: b, bird) Q: Which is the smallest find Canada’s northernmost Migratory Bird Sanctuary in National Park? a) 49oN, b) 60oN, c) 82oN Q: What types of protected areas Canada, at 0.08 hectares (about twice (A: c, 82 degrees North) are created to preserve and main- the size of a large gymnasium)? tain important habitat and unique lands Q: Which Ramsar-designated (A: Christie Islet, British Columbia) for wildlife? a) National Wildlife Areas, Wetland of International b) zoos, c) Migratory Bird Sanctuaries Q: This high-Arctic site in Nunavut Importance is second-largest in the (A: a, National Wildlife Areas) is a Ramsar-designated Wetland of world (as of July 2002), the nesting International Importance and a National ground for almost the entire global Q: Which Ramsar-designated Wildlife Area. It is home to the Peary population of Ross’ goose and is located Wetland of International caribou and the muskox, but is named in Nunavut? (A: Queen Maud Gulf Importance, located near the northern for which other large mammal? (A: Polar Migratory Bird Sanctuary) limit of the boreal forest, is the last nat- Bear Pass National Wildlife Area) ural nesting area in the world for the endangered whooping crane? (A: Whooping Crane Summer Range, Alberta/Northwest Territories) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: Which time of year is best for Q: When you plant a tree seedling Q: How soon should you water a planting trees and shrubs? a) win- for wildlife, the root collar (the lit- tree you just planted? a) immedi- ter, b) spring, c) summer (A: b, spring) tle swelling at the base of the stem) ately, b) within two days, c) within a should be: a) below ground level, b) at week (A: a, immediately) Q: Manitoba’s Lake St. George ground level, c) above ground level, Caves Ecological Reserve protects Q: Churn Creek Protected Area d) doesn’t matter (A: b, at ground level) the province’s largest hibernating site protects significant grassland (hibernaculum) for: a) bats, b) red-sided Q: The Dr. J. Murray Speirs ecosystems and rare wildlife that occur in garter snakes, c) bears, d) all of the Ecological Reserve, which is located the “rain shadow” (characterized by hot, above (A: a, bats) in Altona Forest near Toronto, protects a dry summers and cold, low-snowfall win- large block of mature urban forest that ters) of this province’s coastal mountains. Q: Name two species of birds at is very important for: a) migrating birds, (A: British Columbia) risk that live in National Parks in b) forest nesting birds, c) wildlife travel, Canada. (A: any of the following: the Q: Which predatory ocean mam- d) all of the above (A: d, all) whooping crane, the peregrine falcon, the mal might you see while exploring harlequin duck, or the piping plover) Q: In addition to elk, what large Gulf Islands National Park? (A: the orca, grazing mammal is Elk Island or killer whale) Q: Invading carp are threatening National Park famous for? (A: bison) habitat of the bigmouth buffalo Q: The basins and beaches of fish (a Canadian “species of special con- Q: Drought is threatening the which Ramsar-designated Wetland cern”) in which Ramsar-designated habitat of the piping plover and of International Importance on Lake Wetland of International Importance other shorebirds and waterfowl at which Manitoba have served as a rest area for and Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Ramsar-designated up to 2 million migrating ducks and Saskatchewan? (A: ) Wetland of International Importance? geese? (A: , Manitoba) (A: ) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: What might happen if a tree Q: What is a good way to raise Q: Why did students at a seedling’s roots dry out while you community awareness of special Saskatchewan prairie school plant are planting it? a) it will thrive, b) it may wild spaces? a) writing letters or articles, rows of hardy trees around the school- die (A: b) b) creating a newsletter, c) organizing a yard? a) to create a play area, b) to cre- festival, d) creating a display, e) all of ate a windbreak and provide shelter for Q: This Provincial Park in the above (A: e, all) wildlife (A: b) Newfoundland has boreal forests, bogs, and marshes, and a special plant Q: What representative ecosystem Q: Which of the following is typi- called “Labrador tea.” (A: La Manche) is protected in Bornish Hill Nature cal of Alberta’s Kennedy Coulee Reserve in Nova Scotia? a) tall-grass Ecological Reserve? a) aspen trees, Q: Which National Park protects prairie, b) alpine tundra, c) old-growth b) poplar trees, c) sugar maple trees one of the world’s largest polar hardwood forest, d) boreal forest (A: a and b—sugar maples are not typical bear denning areas? (A: Wapusk, (A: c, old-growth hardwood forest) of this area) Manitoba) Q: Which National Park protects Q: Which National Parks protect Q: Which Ramsar-designated nesting sites for the endangered remaining habitats for the endan- Wetland of International piping plover along its 25 kilometres of gered Newfoundland marten? (A: Gros Importance north of Winnipeg, coastal sand dunes? (A: Kouchibouguac, Morne and Terra Nova) Manitoba, was once drained for farm- New Brunswick) land until it was less than half a percent Q: To be recognized as a of its original 47,000-hectare size? Q: Which Ramsar-designated Biosphere Reserve by the United (A: ) Wetland of International Importance Nations Educational, Scientific and was established as a National Wildlife Cultural Organization, an area must: Reserve in Quebec solely to protect the a) protect biodiversity, b) allow human greater snow goose? (A: Cap Tourmente) uses, c) do environmental research and education, d) all of the above (A: d, all)

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Q: Students at Mary Johnson Q: Why is it important to leave Q: Students at a Nova Scotia school Public School in Kitchener, Ontario, small plants and shrubs growing in made this important discovery gave wildlife a helping hand when they: the understory of a forest? a) to provide when they studied a local woodlot: a) lots a) created a trail, b) removed asphalt pleasant campsites, b) to provide wildlife of garbage, b) a rare plant found from the schoolyard, c) planted native habitat (A: b, to provide wildlife habitat) nowhere else in the province, c) a new plants, d) all of the above (A: d, all) spot for swings, d) all of the above Q: The great diversity of plant life (A: b, a rare plant) Q: Which rare type of forest does at Coal River Springs Territorial Quebec’s Île Brion Ecological Reserve Park, Yukon, is partly due to: a) fertile Q: At which Provincial or Territorial protect? a) southern hardwood, b) tall soil, b) year-round cool springs, c) year- Park could you descend from the and stunted white spruce, c) giant red round hot springs (A: b, cool springs) prairie into the “badlands,” a strange cedar, d) all of the above? (A: b, spruce) world of pinnacles, “hoodoos,” buttes, Q: You might see Canada’s largest and coulees? (A: Dinosaur Provincial Park, Q: The 85,000 members of the marine reptile as it follows its Alberta) Bluenose West caribou herd return food, jellyfish, near Cape Breton to this National Park in the Northwest Highlands National Park. What is it? Q: Name the National Park with Territories each year to give birth. (A: the leatherback seaturtle) the most species of wildlife at risk. (A: Tuktut Nogait) (A: Point Pelee in southern Ontario is home Q: Which Quebec Ramsar-desig- to over 60 species at risk listed by the Q: Which Ramsar-designated nated Wetland of International Committee on the Status of Endangered Wetland of International Importance features about 100 islands Wildlife in Canada) Importance straddles the Quebec-United and several large bays, and is an unusual States border and protects about 30 rare example of a Biosphere Reserve since it Q: Which 32-kilometre-long sandy plant species in its diverse habitats? includes a major waterway in an indus- spit juts into Lake Erie and is a (A: Lac Saint-François, Quebec) trialized area? (A: Lac Saint-Pierre) Ramsar-designated Wetland of International Importance where migrat- ing bats, monarch butterflies, and tun- dra swans stop over? (A: Long Point National Wildlife Area, Ontario) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: When an insect infestation Q: The nature trail created by stu- Q: Students at École Tuxedo Park killed many trees near their nature dents at Newport Station District in Winnipeg, Manitoba, created trail, Nova Scotia students: a) cried, Elementary School in Nova Scotia is used three native habitats, among them was b) cleaned them up, c) studied them for by: a) tourists, b) students from the a) a rainforest, b) an oak savannah, c) a the government (A: c, studied them) school, c) students from other schools, maple forest, d) all of the above (A: b, an d) all of the above (A: d, all) oak savannah—rainforests and maple Q: At which Provincial Park in forests are not typical in this area) Manitoba could you visit a moun- Q: At which Provincial Park in Nova tain that rises 245 metres above the sur- Scotia could you watch the world’s Q: At which Provincial Park in rounding prairie? (A: Turtle Mountain) highest tides from the top of 180-metre Ontario could you paddle 2,100 sea cliffs rising from the Bay of Fundy? kilometres of canoe routes through Q: At which National Park could (A: Cape Chignecto Provincial Park) thousands of lakes and rivers in the you witness the fall migration of Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest region? thousands of monarch butterflies as they Q: At which National Park might (A: Algonquin Provincial Park) begin their 3,000-kilometre journey you see a colony of endangered south? (A: Point Pelee, Ontario) black-tailed prairie dogs? (A: Grasslands, Q: Where might you see the nest Saskatchewan) of the black-legged kittiwake, a Q: Eel grass beds, which dominate seabird of Quebec’s Forillon National half (3,800 hectares) of this Prince Q: During the fall migration, mil- Park? a) floating on the ocean, b) on the Edward Island Ramsar-designated lions of migrating shorebirds visit beach, c) on a cliff face (A: c, cliff face) Wetland of International Importance, this Ramsar-designated Wetland of feed migratory waterbirds and large nest- International Importance in New Q: Which Provincial Park in ing colonies of herons. (A: ) Brunswick to feast on the world’s high- Alberta is also a World Heritage est density of tiny mud shrimp? Site because of its features such as fos- (A: Mary’s Point) sils, badlands, and cottonwood trees? (A: Dinosaur Provincial Park)

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Q: What special feature keeps the Q: Students at a New Brunswick Q: The students at Windsor’s habitat healthy at École Tuxedo school created piles of brush in a Concord Public School in Ontario Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba? a) in-ground local forest to: a) clean it up, b) reduce have won awards for their habitat proj- sprinkler systems, b) hidden cameras, risk of fire, c) create homes for wildlife ects from: a) local organizations, b) the c) a rainwater collection and conserva- (A: c, create homes for wildlife) Canadian Wildlife Federation, c) the tion system, d) all of the above United Nations, d) all three (A: d, all) Q: In which Provincial Park in (A: c, rainwater conservation) Saskatchewan would you find over Q: At Coal River Springs Territorial Q: What type of landscape would 100 kilometres of shifting dunes—the Park, Yukon, plants growing near the you expect to find in most of largest active sand surface in Canada? cliff-side, terraced pools of spring water Quebec’s Mont Tremblant Provincial (A: Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial become coated with “tufa” made of: Park? a) deciduous forest, b) coniferous Wilderness Park) a) stone, b) mud, c) ice, d) insects (A: a, forest, c) rainforest, d) alpine meadows stone) Q: You can drive the famous Cabot (A: a, deciduous forest) Trail and experience breathtaking Q: Name three large predators Q: At which National Park in the Atlantic views from the cliffs in which protected in Jasper National Park, Northwest Territories could you National Park in Nova Scotia? Alberta. (A: any of the following: grizzly visit “Head Hill,” with over 500 muskox (A: Cape Breton Highlands) bear, black bear, wolf, cougar, coyote, skulls left by Inuit hunters in the late wolverine) Q: Which of the following ecosys- 1800s? (A: Aulavik) tems are protected in Clayoquot Q: Redberry Lake, designated as a Q: What does “UNESCO” stand for Sound Biosphere Reserve, which is locat- Biosphere Reserve by the United in UNESCO Biosphere Reserve? (A: ed on Vancouver Island, British Nations Educational, Scientific and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Columbia? a) unlogged rainforest, Cultural Organization, serves as an exam- Cultural Organization) b) mountain peaks, c) open ocean, ple of how humans can live together d) oak savannah? (A: a, b and c) with species of large avian wildlife such as the white pelican. In which province is this reserve located? (A: Saskatchewan) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: Since 1989, students of a Q: A Prince Edward Island school Q: Which of the following is your Windsor, Ontario, school planted provided a safe method of local best choice for reducing garbage? thousands of trees and picked up tons of bug control by: a) slapping mosquitoes a) recycling used packaging, b) re-using garbage to restore: a) a schoolyard, b) a for three weeks, b) installing bat houses, packaging, c) reducing the amount of healthy river system, c) a local golf c) spraying insecticide daily, d) all of the packaging you buy and recycling used course (A: b, river system) above (A: b, installing bat houses) packaging (A: c, reducing and recycling) Q: At which Provincial Park and Q: How did the First Nations peo- Q: Which Provincial Park takes its World Heritage Site could you find ple of British Columbia’s Churn name from the French word for one of the world’s richest beds of fos- Creek Protected Area prevent trees from “sleeve” and is an abandoned fishing vil- silized dinosaur bones? (A: Dinosaur taking over the prairie grasslands that lage, which was wiped out by a huge Provincial Park, Alberta) supported them? a) by deliberately burn- tide? (A: La Manche Provincial Park, ing tracts of grasslands, b) by pulling out Newfoundland and Labrador) Q: Which National Park protects young trees (A: a) the Manitoba Escarpment with its Q: How tall was the 1,850-year-old boreal forest, deciduous forests, grass- Q: Which National Park in New cedar tree found at Bruce Peninsula lands, and wetlands? (A: Riding Mountain) Brunswick protects fertile saltwater National Park, Ontario? a) 50 metres, marshes that are created by the world’s b) 15 metres, c) 1.5 metres (A: c, 1.5 metres) Q: Which of the following types of highest tides? (A: Fundy) wild plants are found in the Niagara Q: The Thousand Islands – Frontenac Escarpment Biosphere Reserve in Q: The cliffs of Mont St. Hilaire Arch Biosphere Reserve is an area Ontario? a) Arctic plants, b) rare orchids, Biosphere Reserve are Quebec’s that comprises of islands and islets of the c) 1,000-year-old cedar trees, d) all of the best nesting sites for which rare raptor, Saint Lawrence River. The Frontenac Arch above (A: d, all) known as the world’s fastest bird? is a land bridge, which is important for (A: the peregrine falcon) wildlife migrations between the Algonquin and Adirondack Park regions. In which province is this Biosphere Reserve located? (A: Ontario) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: What simple thing could you Q: What is the best place to dis- Q: Before deciding which trees and do to control erosion best on a pose of toxic chemicals such as shrubs to plant to attract wildlife in local stream bank? a) remove trees along used motor oil, left-over paints, and your schoolyard, you should: a) test the the shore, b) plant trees on the bank chemical cleaners? a) a hazardous waste soil, b) find out which plants are native (A: b, plant trees on the bank) collection site, b) landfill (A: a, a haz- to your area, c) both (A: c, both) ardous waste collection site) Q: The name of Katannilik Q: What is the best way to get to Territorial Park Reserve on Baffin Q: Which black- and white-diving Newfoundland’s Witless Bay Island, Nunavut, comes from a word that bird and famous symbol of Seabird Ecological Reserve? (A: by boat) means: a) flat land, b) many waterfalls, Canadian wilderness might you hear on Q: Which of the following animals c) cold waters (A: b, many waterfalls) a quiet evening in Algonquin Provincial live in Jasper National Park in the Park in Ontario? (A: the loon) Q: Which National Park in Rocky Mountains of Alberta? a) the killer Saskatchewan protects mixed prairie Q: Name a National Park that pro- whale, b) the Atlantic salmon, c) the grassland ecosystems, one of Canada’s tects boreal forest ecosystems? razon clam, d) the elk (or wapiti)? (A: d, most rare ecosystems? (A: Grasslands) (A: any of the following: Prince Albert in the elk—elk is a large animal that lives Saskatchewan, Pukaskwa in Ontario, or throughout the Rocky Mountains; the Q: How deep are the bison bones Riding Mountain in Manitoba) killer whale lives in the ocean; the razor at the base of the cliff at Head- clam lives in sandy seashores, and the Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Q: L’Anse aux Meadows in Atlantic salmon lives in rivers and the Heritage Site in Alberta? a) up to half a Newfoundland is a culturally Atlantic Ocean) metre, b) up to 1 metre, c) up to 11 important World Heritage Site because metres (A: c, 11 metres) of the 1,000-year-old settlements of Q: What is the term for protected which people? (A: Vikings) areas that are recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization because of their cultural or natural value to the world? (A: World Heritage Sites) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: What do you call the activity of Q: To best help wildlife, you Q: True or false? All trees, shrubs, gathering information about your should plant trees or shrubs: a) in and plants need lots of sunlight, so schoolyard before you improve wildlife neat, straight rows, b) in clumps and the more sunny the spot in which you habitat there? a) research, b) inventory, patches, c) individually (A: b, in clumps plant them, the better they will grow. c) all of the above (A: c, all) and patches) (A: false—some plants grow best in shade) Q: Aboriginal people who once Q: As part of a provincial system Q: Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Sand lived in Dinosaur Provincial Park, of protected areas, Alberta’s Dunes Provincial Wilderness Park Alberta, referred to the fossilized Dinosaur Provincial Park helps preserve protects rare and endemic plants. Endemic dinosaur remains as the “grandfathers” which type of natural area? a) grass- means: a) endangered, b) found nowhere of which animal? (A: the buffalo) lands, b) rocky mountain, c) boreal for- else, c) smaller than normal (A: b, found est, d) all of the above (A: a, grasslands) nowhere else) Q: Tuktut Nogait National Park, Northwest Territories, is almost Q: At which National Park Reserve Q: Which is the only inland entirely what kind of ecosystem? a) bore- in the Northwest Territories could National Park in the Maritimes, al forest, b) glacier, c) tundra (A: c, tundra) you paddle a whitewater river with four and a place in which you can canoe great canyons and the spectacular many lakes and rivers? (A: Kejimkujik, Q: Which government department Virginia Falls? (A: Nahanni) Nova Scotia) looks after Canada’s World Heritage Sites? (A: Parks Canada) Q: Which World Heritage Site in Q: Which First Nations people British Columbia protects the once hunted buffalo for food and remains of an ancient Haida community clothing by chasing them over the cliffs with its spectacular carved memorial at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World poles? (A: SGaang Gwaii) Heritage Site in Alberta? (A: the Blackfoot Nation)

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Q: True or false? The moisture Q: True or false? The type of soil Q: True or false? All plants grow needs of different plants can be found in your yard will affect what better with lots of space. quite different. (A: true) can grow there. (A: true) (A: false—some like to be crowded) Q: New Brunswick’s Sugarloaf Q: The important ground lichens Q: To best view wildlife in the Provincial Park protects a natural found at British Columbia’s Churn Northwest Territories’ park system, forest on the edge of which mountain Creek Protected Area are easily damaged staff advise you to: a) be patient, early, range? (A: the Appalachian Range) by vehicles and can take how long to and quiet, b) go out on rainy days, recover? a) several months, b) up to a c) stay in your car? (A: a, be patient, early, Q: At which National Park could you year, c) over 10 years (A: c, over 10 years) and quiet) visit Canada’s highest peak, Mount Logan at 5,959 metres in height? Q: At which National Park could you Q: You might see “whalebacks” (A: Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon) paddle the Thomsen, one of the on a trip to Georgian Bay Islands most northern navigable rivers in North National Park in Ontario. These are: Q: The World Heritage Site in America? (A: Aulavik, Northwest Territories) a) humpback whales, b) huge, smooth Kluane National Park and Reserve rocks, c) large sturgeon (A: b, rocks) protects some of the world’s fastest gla- Q: Miguasha Park, Quebec, was ciers, and the world’s largest concentra- designated a World Heritage Site Q: Which World Heritage Site and tion of which large mammal? (A: the because of the great scientific value, National Park Reserve has one of Dall’s sheep) richness, and diversity of what feature? the most spectacular wild rivers in the (A: fossils) world, with 1,000-metre-high canyons and a waterfall twice as high as Niagara? (A: Nahanni, Northwest Territories)