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Q: Students in Kitchener, Q: Which backyard structure would Q: Wooden nesting boxes placed Q: If you wanted to provide a Q: To create a hibernating place Q: Each spring, students near Q: You can best improve your Q: What living things are best to Q: Good diversity of wildlife habi- Q: What might happen if a tree Q: What is a good way to raise Q: Why did students at a , have restored, on their you install to attract purple martins, around a schoolyard help birds that backyard hiding place for small for toads in your backyard, you Lindsay, Ontario, place signs on the backyard soils to help wildlife by keep urban backyards and school- tat can be created in your school- seedling’s roots dry out while you community awareness of special Saskatchewan prairie school plant school grounds, a portion of which locally agile birds that eat thousands of bugs a would normally nest in: a) winter, b) holes wild animals you could make a pile of: should fill a hole with soft sand to which roadside to warn motorists to watch for adding: a) pesticides, b) fertilizer, c) nat- yards cool on hot, dusty days? a) grass yard by: a) planting different types of are planting it? a) it will thrive, b) it may wild spaces? a) writing letters or articles, rows of hardy trees around the school- endangered ecosystem? day? a) a nesting platform, b) a multi-unit in trees, c) barns, d) all of the above a) rocks, b) brush, c) logs, d) any of the depth? a) 10 centimetres, b) 1 metre, which wild animals? a) turtles, b) polar ural compost (A: c, natural compost) and flowers, b) trees (A: b, trees) plants, b) planting different sizes of die (A: b) b) creating a newsletter, c) organizing a yard? a) to create a play area, b) to cre- a) temperate rainforest, b) tundra, birdhouse, c) a winter bird roost, d) all of (A: b, holes in trees) three (A: d, any) c) 2 metres, d) any depth is good bears, c) mosquitoes, d) all of the above plants, c) arranging plants in different festival, d) creating a display, e) all of ate a windbreak and provide shelter for Q: One main reason for the Q: Chum salmon swim several Q: This Provincial Park in c) Carolinian forest, d) all of the above the above (A: b, a multi-unit birdhouse) (A: b, 1 metre) (A: a, turtles) groups, d) all of the above (A: d, all) the above (A: e, all) wildlife (A: b) Q: Île Brion Provincial Ecological Q: Which Territorial Park in ’s Fishing Branch Ni’iinlii’njik thousand kilometres upriver from Newfoundland has boreal forests, (A: c, Carolinian forest) Q: Which Provincial Park in the Reserve protects primitive forests Nunavut protects four distinct Q: Which activities are permitted Q: What is the best way to travel Park is to protect habitat for which the Bering Sea to spawn in which Q: The brown thrasher that is pro- bogs, and marshes, and a special plant Q: What representative ecosystem Q: Which of the following is typi- Q: The willow trees in Katannilik City of Calgary, Alberta, is one of typical of the Magdalen Islands maritime plant communities, including snowpatch, in the undisturbed alpine and sub- through a fragile ecological species of bear? a) the black bear, b) the Territorial Park in the Yukon? (A: Fishing tected in Alberta’s Kennedy Coulee called “Labrador tea.” (A: La Manche) is protected in Bornish Hill Nature cal of Alberta’s Kennedy Coulee Territorial Park on Baffin Island, the largest urban parks in North landscape. In which province is this eco- dwarf shrub/heath, and grasslands tun- alpine ecosystems protected by British reserve such as Alberta’s Kennedy polar bear, c) the grizzly bear (A: c, the Branch Ni’iinlii’njik Park) Ecological Reserve is: a) a fighting type Reserve in Nova Scotia? a) tall-grass Ecological Reserve? a) aspen trees, Q: Which National Park protects Nunavut, are the tallest trees in the America? (A: Fish Creek Provincial Park) logical reserve located? (A: Quebec) dra communities? (A: Katannilik Territorial Columbia’s Gladys Lake Ecological Coulee? a) all terrain vehicle, b) bike, grizzly bear) of fish, b) a bush-loving bird, c) an prairie, b) alpine tundra, c) old-growth b) poplar trees, c) sugar maple trees Q: At which latitude would you one of the world’s largest polar region and can be as tall as: Park) Reserve? a) photography, b) fishing, c) hike, d) all of the above (A: c, hike) aggressive rattlesnake (A: b, bird) hardwood forest, d) boreal forest (A: a and b—sugar maples are not typical Q: Which National Park protects a Q: About how many square kilo- Q: Which is the smallest find ’s northernmost bear denning areas? (A: Wapusk, a) 3.6 metres, b) 9.6 metres, c) 15.6 c) camping, d) all of the above (A: c, old-growth hardwood forest) of this area) very rich, 515 million-year-old fossil metres of Canadian wilderness are Q: Which National Park is located Q: Which National Park, known as Migratory Bird Sanctuary in National Park? a) 49oN, b) 60oN, c) 82oN Q: What types of protected areas Manitoba) metres, d) 21.6 metres (A: a, 3.6 metres) (A: a, photography) deposit known as the Burgess Shales? currently set aside as National Parks and in both a province and a territory? “Land’s End,” is found at the east- Canada, at 0.08 hectares (about twice (A: c, 82 degrees North) are created to preserve and main- Q: Which National Park protects Q: Which National Parks protect Q: Which Ramsar-designated You might visit natural hot (A: Yoho, ) National Park Reserves? a) 22,000, (A: Wood Buffalo, Alberta/Northwest Q: Which National Park protects ern tip of the Gaspé Peninsula? the size of a large gymnasium)? tain important habitat and unique lands nesting sites for the endangered remaining habitats for the endan- Q: Q: Which Ramsar-designated Wetland of International springs here, at Canada’s first b) 229,700, c) 2,200,000 (A: b, 229,700 Territories) the unique plants and animals of (A: Forillon, Quebec) (A: Christie Islet, British Columbia) for wildlife? a) National Wildlife Areas, piping plover along its 25 kilometres of gered Newfoundland marten? (A: Gros Q: Nahanni National Park Reserve Wetland of International Importance north of Winnipeg, National Park. (A: Banff, Alberta) square kilometres) the most southern point in mainland b) zoos, c) Migratory Bird Sanctuaries coastal sand dunes? (A: Kouchibouguac, Morne and Terra Nova) was declared as a World Heritage Q: Which Ramsar-designated Q: Which government agency Q: This high-Arctic site in Nunavut Importance is second-largest in the Manitoba, was once drained for farm- Canada? (A: Point Pelee, Ontario) (A: a, National Wildlife Areas) New Brunswick) Q: Which spectacular Site in 1978 by the United Nations Q: The Ramsar Convention on Wetland of International looks after Canada’s responsibility is a Ramsar-designated Wetland of world (as of July 2002), the nesting land until it was less than half a percent Q: To be recognized as a Newfoundland National Park is Educational, Scientific and Cultural Wetlands is the only global environ- Importance is the largest wetland com- Q: Which government agency to protect Ramsar-designated Wetlands International Importance and a National ground for almost the entire global Q: Which Ramsar-designated of its original 47,000-hectare size? Q: Which Ramsar-designated Biosphere Reserve by the United also listed as a World Heritage Site by Organization. In which Province or mental treaty that deals with a particular plex in the Yukon, provides important looks after Canada’s responsibility of International Importance? (A: the Wildlife Area. It is home to the Peary population of Ross’ goose and is located Wetland of International (A: ) Wetland of International Importance Nations Educational, Scientific and the United Nations Educational, Territory is this reserve located? ecosystem. It lists: a) wetlands of interna- habitat for hundreds of thousands of to protect World Heritage Sites? Canadian Wildlife Service, part of caribou and the muskox, but is named in Nunavut? (A: Importance, located near the northern was established as a National Wildlife Cultural Organization, an area must: Scientific and Cultural Organization? (A: Northwest Territories) tional importance, b) endangered species, migratory birds and contains more than (A: Parks Canada) Environment Canada) for which other large mammal? (A: Polar Migratory Bird Sanctuary) limit of the boreal forest, is the last nat- Reserve in Quebec solely to protect the a) protect biodiversity, b) allow human (A: Gros Morne) c) endangered ecosystems (A: a, wetlands 2,000 ponds and marshes scattered on a Bear Pass National Wildlife Area) ural nesting area in the world for the greater snow goose? (A: Cap Tourmente) uses, c) do environmental research and of international importance) northern Canadian plain? endangered whooping crane? education, d) all of the above (A: d, all) (A: Old Crow Flats) (A: Whooping Crane Summer Range, Alberta/Northwest Territories) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA

Q: Why should you clean old nests Q: A school group in Prince Q: Which of the following animals Q: If you wish to create habitat in Q: What is the minimum size for a Q: As a rule, which of the following Q: Which time of year is best for Q: When you plant a tree seedling Q: How soon should you water a Q: Students at Mary Johnson Q: Why is it important to leave Q: Students at a Nova Scotia school out of your bird boxes every fall? Edward Island installed bat roosts could a bird-bath in your backyard your schoolyard for a local animal, good backyard or schoolyard habi- are better to plant for local wildlife? planting trees and shrubs? a) win- for wildlife, the root collar (the lit- tree you just planted? a) immedi- Public School in Kitchener, Ontario, small plants and shrubs growing in made this important discovery 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 what habitat components should you tat project? a) 10 square metres, b) 100 a) plants native to a region, b) specially ter, b) spring, c) summer (A: b, spring) tle swelling at the base of the stem) ately, b) within two days, c) within a gave wildlife a helping hand when they: the understory of a forest? a) to provide when they studied a local woodlot: a) lots birds will fit, c) to get rid of dangerous structures give bats? a) a place to rest, small mammals, c) birds and amphibians, consider? a) food, b) water, c) shelter, square metres, c) no minimum (A: c, no developed plants, c) exotic plants from should be: a) below ground level, b) at week (A: a, immediately) a) created a trail, b) removed asphalt pleasant campsites, b) to provide wildlife of garbage, b) a rare plant found Q: Manitoba’s Lake St. George parasites (A: c, parasites) b) a place to find insects, c) a place to d) all of the above (A: d, all) d) space, e) all of the above (A: e, all) minimum) warm countries (A: a, native plants) ground level, c) above ground level, from the schoolyard, c) planted native habitat (A: b, to provide wildlife habitat) nowhere else in the province, c) a new Caves Ecological Reserve protects Q: Churn Creek Protected Area get nectar (A: a, a place to rest) d) doesn’t matter (A: b, at ground level) plants, d) all of the above (A: d, all) spot for swings, d) all of the above Q: What type of legally protected Q: Who worked to protect the Q: What are the main purposes of Q: About how many pairs of Q: What is the largest Migratory the province’s largest hibernating site protects significant grassland Q: The great diversity of plant life (A: b, a rare plant) area, used for recreation and Q: What type of protected area springs and delicate mineral for- Nova Scotia’s Nature Reserves, such seabirds gather at Newfoundland’s Bird Sanctuary in Canada, at 11.2 (hibernaculum) for: a) bats, b) red-sided Q: The Dr. J. Murray Speirs ecosystems and rare wildlife that occur in Q: Which rare type of forest does at Coal River Springs Territorial wilderness preservation, is the responsi- preserves representative and special mations at Coal River Springs Territorial as Bornish Hill? a) recreation, b) scientific Witless Bay Seabird Ecological Reserve to million hectares? (A: Queen Maud Gulf garter snakes, c) bears, d) all of the Ecological Reserve, which is located the “rain shadow” (characterized by hot, Quebec’s Île Brion Ecological Reserve Park, Yukon, is partly due to: a) fertile Q: At which Provincial or Territorial bility of provincial and territorial govern- ecosystems, plants, and animals? Park in the Yukon? a) the Liaird First research, c) protect representative exam- breed each year? a) 1,000,000 pairs, Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Nunavut) above (A: a, bats) in Altona Forest near Toronto, protects a dry summers and cold, low-snowfall win- protect? a) southern hardwood, b) tall soil, b) year-round cool springs, c) year- Park could you descend from the ments? a) National Parks, b) Provincial or a) Ecological Reserves, b) municipal parks, Nations, b) the Yukon government, ples of natural ecosystems (A: b and c) b) 500,000 pairs, c) 2,000 pairs large block of mature urban forest that ters) of this province’s coastal mountains. and stunted white spruce, c) giant red round hot springs (A: b, cool springs) prairie into the “badlands,” a strange Q: At which Provincial Park in Q: Name two species of birds at Territorial Parks (A: b, Provincial or c) your backyard (A: a, Ecological Reserves) c) the Nature Conservancy of Canada, (A: a, 1,000,000 pairs) is very important for: a) migrating birds, (A: British Columbia) cedar, d) all of the above? (A: b, spruce) world of pinnacles, “hoodoos,” buttes, Q: What types of areas, protected Ontario can you join park staff risk that live in National Parks in Q: You might see Canada’s largest Territorial Parks) d) all three groups (A: d, all) b) forest nesting birds, c) wildlife travel, and coulees? (A: Dinosaur Provincial Park, Q: Name at least one National by Canadian law, are part of a Q: What types of areas are pro- every August to howl for the eastern Canada. (A: any of the following: the Q: Which predatory ocean mam- Q: The 85,000 members of the marine reptile as it follows its d) all of the above (A: d, all) Alberta) Q: Which of the following species Park that is entirely above the Q: Which National Park in Ontario nationwide system of representative nat- tected as part of a national net- wolf? (A: Algonquin Provincial Park) whooping crane, the peregrine falcon, the mal might you see while exploring Bluenose West caribou herd return food, jellyfish, near Cape Breton are endangered and protected in Arctic Circle. (A: any of the following: overlooks Georgian Bay and protects ural areas of Canadian significance? work to protect migratory birds and their harlequin duck, or the piping plover) Q: In addition to elk, what large Gulf Islands National Park? (A: the orca, to this National Park in the Northwest Highlands National Park. What is it? Q: Name the National Park with Q: Which Arctic coastal wetland National Parks? a) the black bear, b) the Tuktut Nogait, Aulavik, Auyuittuq, some of the diverse ecology of the Niagara (A: National Parks and/or National Park habitat? a) Migratory Bird Sanctuaries, grazing mammal is Elk Island or killer whale) Territories each year to give birth. (A: the leatherback seaturtle) the most species of wildlife at risk. plain in Nunavut is a Ramsar-desig- Q: Invading carp are threatening whooping crane, c) the snow goose, Quttinirpaaq, Sirmilik, Vuntut, Ivvavik, and Escarpment? (A: Bruce Peninsula, Ontario) Reserves) b) National Wildlife Areas, c) both National Park famous for? (A: bison) (A: Tuktut Nogait) (A: Point Pelee in southern Ontario is home nated Wetland of International habitat of the bigmouth buffalo Q: The basins and beaches of Q: Which Quebec Ramsar-desig- d) the spotted salamander (A: b, the Ukkusiksalik) (A: c, both) to over 60 species at risk listed by the Q: About how many hectares world- Q: Which Ramsar-designated Importance and is also a Migratory Bird fish (a Canadian “species of special con- Q: Drought is threatening the which Ramsar-designated Wetland Q: Which Ramsar-designated nated Wetland of International whooping crane—the remaining species Committee on the Status of Endangered Q: How many countries have wide are designated as Wetlands of Wetland of International Q: Which Ramsar-designated Sanctuary and serves as summer nesting cern”) in which Ramsar-designated habitat of the piping plover and of International Importance on Lake Wetland of International Importance features about 100 islands have healthy populations across Canada) Wildlife in Canada) signed a global environmental International Importance by the Ramsar Importance near Edmonton, Alberta, is Wetland of International grounds for up to 2 million birds? Wetland of International Importance other shorebirds and waterfowl at which Manitoba have served as a rest area for Importance straddles the Quebec-United and several large bays, and is an unusual Q: The Ramsar Convention on treaty, called the Ramsar Convention on Convention on Wetlands? a) 122, designated a vital area for migrating Importance is one of the world’s largest (A: Dewey Soper Migratory Bird and Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Saskatchewan Ramsar-designated up to 2 million migrating ducks and States border and protects about 30 rare example of a Biosphere Reserve since it Q: Which 32-kilometre-long sandy Wetlands has identified how many Wetlands, to designate sites as Wetlands b) 122,691, c) 122,845,699 (A: c, 122,845,699 shorebirds and waterfowl, and is threat- freshwater delta and is actually made up Sanctuary) Saskatchewan? (A: ) Wetland of International Importance? geese? (A: , Manitoba) plant species in its diverse habitats? includes a major waterway in an indus- spit juts into Lake Erie and is a Wetlands of International Importance in of International Importance? a) 41, hectares as of December 2004) ened by agricultural run-off and of three neighbouring river deltas? (A: ) (A: Lac Saint-François, Quebec) trialized area? (A: Lac Saint-Pierre) Ramsar-designated Wetland of the world? a) 13, b) 138, c) 1,401 b) 144, c) 82 (A: b, 144 countries as of drought? (A: ) (A: Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta) International Importance where migrat- (A: c, 1,401 wetlands as of December 2004) December 2004) ing bats, monarch butterflies, and tun- dra swans stop over? (A: Long Point National Wildlife Area, Ontario) SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA SPECIAL PLACES TRIVIA GAME

Q: When an insect infestation Q: The nature trail created by stu- Q: Students at École Tuxedo Park Q: Since 1989, students of a Q: A Prince Edward Island school Q: Which of the following is your Q: What do you call the activity of Q: To best help wildlife, you Q: True or false? All trees, shrubs, killed many trees near their nature dents at Newport Station District in Winnipeg, Manitoba, created Windsor, Ontario, school planted provided a safe method of local best choice for reducing garbage? gathering information about your should plant trees or shrubs: a) in and plants need lots of sunlight, so trail, Nova Scotia students: a) cried, Elementary School in Nova Scotia is used three native habitats, among them was thousands of trees and picked up tons of bug control by: a) slapping mosquitoes a) recycling used packaging, b) re-using schoolyard before you improve wildlife neat, straight rows, b) in clumps and the more sunny the spot in which you b) cleaned them up, c) studied them for by: a) tourists, b) students from the a) a rainforest, b) an oak savannah, c) a garbage to restore: a) a schoolyard, b) a for three weeks, b) installing bat houses, packaging, c) reducing the amount of habitat there? a) research, b) inventory, patches, c) individually (A: b, in clumps plant them, the better they will grow. the government (A: c, studied them) school, c) students from other schools, maple forest, d) all of the above (A: b, an healthy river system, c) a local golf c) spraying insecticide daily, d) all of the packaging you buy and recycling used c) all of the above (A: c, all) and patches) (A: false—some plants grow best in shade) d) all of the above (A: d, all) oak savannah—rainforests and maple course (A: b, river system) above (A: b, installing bat houses) packaging (A: c, reducing and recycling) Q: At which Provincial Park in Q: Aboriginal people who once Q: As part of a provincial system Q: Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Sand forests are not typical in this area) Manitoba could you visit a moun- Q: At which Provincial Park in Nova Q: At which Provincial Park and Q: How did the First Nations peo- Q: Which Provincial Park takes its lived in Dinosaur Provincial Park, of protected areas, Alberta’s Dunes Provincial Wilderness Park NOTE TO TEACHER In this activity, students will be able to identify different types of protected areas, tain that rises 245 metres above the sur- Scotia could you watch the world’s Q: At which Provincial Park in World Heritage Site could you find ple of British Columbia’s Churn name from the French word for Alberta, referred to the fossilized Dinosaur Provincial Park helps preserve protects rare and endemic plants. Endemic rounding prairie? (A: Turtle Mountain) highest tides from the top of 180-metre Ontario could you paddle 2,100 one of the world’s richest beds of fos- Creek Protected Area prevent trees from “sleeve” and is an abandoned fishing vil- dinosaur remains as the “grandfathers” which type of natural area? a) grass- means: a) endangered, b) found nowhere characteristics of these special places, and the bodies involved in their protection. sea cliffs rising from the Bay of Fundy? kilometres of canoe routes through silized dinosaur bones? (A: Dinosaur taking over the prairie grasslands that lage, which was wiped out by a huge of which animal? (A: the buffalo) lands, b) rocky mountain, c) boreal for- else, c) smaller than normal (A: b, found Q: At which National Park could (A: Cape Chignecto Provincial Park) thousands of lakes and rivers in the Provincial Park, Alberta) supported them? a) by deliberately burn- tide? (A: La Manche Provincial Park, est, d) all of the above (A: a, grasslands) nowhere else) This activity consists of cards and a game board. The objective is to be the first player you witness the fall migration of Q: Tuktut Nogait National Park, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest region? ing tracts of grasslands, b) by pulling out Newfoundland and Labrador) to complete a circuit on the game board. Players advance only by first correctly thousands of monarch butterflies as they Q: At which National Park might Q: Which National Park protects Northwest Territories, is almost Q: At which National Park Reserve Q: Which is the only inland young trees (A: a) answering a question from one of the game cards. Then, they roll a die to determine (A: Algonquin Provincial Park) the Manitoba Escarpment with its Q: How tall was the 1,850-year-old entirely what kind of ecosystem? a) bore- in the Northwest Territories could National Park in the Maritimes, begin their 3,000-kilometre journey you see a colony of endangered how far they advance. south? (A: Point Pelee, Ontario) black-tailed prairie dogs? (A: Grasslands, Q: Where might you see the nest boreal forest, deciduous forests, grass- Q: Which National Park in New cedar tree found at Bruce Peninsula al forest, b) glacier, c) tundra (A: c, tundra) you paddle a whitewater river with four and a place in which you can canoe Saskatchewan) of the black-legged kittiwake, a lands, and wetlands? (A: Riding Mountain) Brunswick protects fertile saltwater National Park, Ontario? a) 50 metres, great canyons and the spectacular many lakes and rivers? (A: Kejimkujik, Q: Eel grass beds, which dominate Q: Which government department The questions on each card are organized into four categories: local areas protected seabird of Quebec’s Forillon National marshes that are created by the world’s b) 15 metres, c) 1.5 metres (A: c, 1.5 metres) Virginia Falls? (A: Nahanni) Nova Scotia) half (3,800 hectares) of this Prince Q: During the fall migration, mil- Q: Which of the following types of looks after Canada’s World through personal actions, provincial and territorial protected areas, national protected Park? a) floating on the ocean, b) on the highest tides? (A: Fundy) Edward Island Ramsar-designated lions of migrating shorebirds visit wild plants are found in the Niagara Q: The Thousand Islands – Frontenac Heritage Sites? (A: Parks Canada) Q: Which World Heritage Site in Q: Which First Nations people areas, and areas protected internationally. Each category is coded with an icon. The beach, c) on a cliff face (A: c, cliff face) Wetland of International Importance, this Ramsar-designated Wetland of Escarpment Biosphere Reserve in Q: The cliffs of Mont St. Hilaire Arch Biosphere Reserve is an area British Columbia protects the once hunted buffalo for food and icons are spread along the squares in the circuit on the game board and correspond to feed migratory waterbirds and large nest- International Importance in New Q: Which Provincial Park in Ontario? a) Arctic plants, b) rare orchids, Biosphere Reserve are Quebec’s that comprises of islands and islets of the remains of an ancient Haida community clothing by chasing them over the cliffs the question categories on the cards. ing colonies of herons. (A: ) Brunswick to feast on the world’s high- Alberta is also a World Heritage c) 1,000-year-old cedar trees, d) all of the best nesting sites for which rare raptor, Saint Lawrence River. The Frontenac Arch with its spectacular carved memorial at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World est density of tiny mud shrimp? Site because of its features such as fos- above (A: d, all) known as the world’s fastest bird? is a land bridge, which is important for poles? (A: SGaang Gwaii) Heritage Site in Alberta? (A: the Questions are based on knowledge of Canadian wildlife, ecosystems, geography, parks (A: Mary’s Point) sils, badlands, and cottonwood trees? (A: the peregrine falcon) wildlife migrations between the Algonquin Blackfoot Nation) and other protected areas, and actions that help wildlife. (A: Dinosaur Provincial Park) and Adirondack Park regions. In which province is this Biosphere Reserve located? (A: Ontario) PREPARATION Photocopy and cut out the cards. Use heavy paper for best results. Acquire one die (or SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES SPECIAL PLACES two) and enough tokens for all players. Set up the game board with a single stack of TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA TRIVIA cards. Place a token for each player on the “Start/Finish” space.

Q: What special feature keeps the Q: Students at a New Brunswick Q: The students at Windsor’s Q: What simple thing could you Q: What is the best place to dis- Q: Before deciding which trees and Q: True or false? The moisture Q: True or false? The type of soil Q: True or false? All plants grow This educational kit was made possible by the Canadian Wildlife Federation, your habitat healthy at École Tuxedo school created piles of brush in a Concord Public School in Ontario do to control erosion best on a pose of toxic chemicals such as shrubs to plant to attract wildlife in needs of different plants can be found in your yard will affect what better with lots of space. provincial or territorial government, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Canadian Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba? a) in-ground local forest to: a) clean it up, b) reduce have won awards for their habitat proj- local stream bank? a) remove trees along used motor oil, left-over paints, and your schoolyard, you should: a) test the quite different. (A: true) can grow there. (A: true) (A: false—some like to be crowded) the shore, b) plant trees on the bank chemical cleaners? a) a hazardous waste soil, b) find out which plants are native Wildlife Service of Environment Canada, and Parks Canada. sprinkler systems, b) hidden cameras, risk of fire, c) create homes for wildlife ects from: a) local organizations, b) the Q: New Brunswick’s Sugarloaf Q: The important ground lichens Q: To best view wildlife in the (A: b, plant trees on the bank) collection site, b) landfill (A: a, a haz- to your area, c) both (A: c, both) c) a rainwater collection and conserva- (A: c, create homes for wildlife) Canadian Wildlife Federation, c) the Provincial Park protects a natural found at British Columbia’s Churn Northwest Territories’ park system, tion system, d) all of the above United Nations, d) all three (A: d, all) ardous waste collection site) Q: In which Provincial Park in Q: The name of Katannilik Q: What is the best way to get to forest on the edge of which mountain Creek Protected Area are easily damaged staff advise you to: a) be patient, early, (A: c, rainwater conservation) 350 Michael Cowpland Drive Saskatchewan would you find over Q: At Coal River Springs Territorial Territorial Park Reserve on Baffin Q: Which black- and white-diving Newfoundland’s Witless Bay range? (A: the Appalachian Range) by vehicles and can take how long to and quiet, b) go out on rainy days, Kanata, ON K2M 2W1 Island, Nunavut, comes from a word that bird and famous symbol of Seabird Ecological Reserve? (A: by boat) recover? a) several months, b) up to a c) stay in your car? (A: a, be patient, early, Q: What type of landscape would 100 kilometres of shifting dunes—the Park, Yukon, plants growing near the Q: At which National Park could you Tel.: 1-800-563-WILD means: a) flat land, b) many waterfalls, Canadian wilderness might you hear on year, c) over 10 years (A: c, over 10 years) and quiet) you expect to find in most of largest active sand surface in Canada? cliff-side, terraced pools of spring water Q: Which of the following animals visit Canada’s highest peak, Mount (613) 599-9594 (Ottawa area) c) cold waters (A: b, many waterfalls) a quiet evening in Algonquin Provincial Quebec’s Mont Tremblant Provincial (A: Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial become coated with “tufa” made of: live in Jasper National Park in the Logan at 5,959 metres in height? Q: At which National Park could you Q: You might see “whalebacks” Fax: (613) 599-4428 Park? a) deciduous forest, b) coniferous Wilderness Park) a) stone, b) mud, c) ice, d) insects (A: a, Park in Ontario? (A: the loon) Q: Which National Park in Rocky Mountains of Alberta? a) the killer (A: Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon) paddle the Thomsen, one of the on a trip to Georgian Bay Islands E-mail: [email protected] forest, c) rainforest, d) alpine meadows stone) Saskatchewan protects mixed prairie Q: Name a National Park that pro- whale, b) the Atlantic salmon, c) the most northern navigable rivers in North National Park in Ontario. These are: Q: You can drive the famous Cabot Q: The World Heritage Site in (A: a, deciduous forest) grassland ecosystems, one of Canada’s tects boreal forest ecosystems? razon clam, d) the elk (or wapiti)? (A: d, America? (A: Aulavik, Northwest Territories) a) humpback whales, b) huge, smooth Trail and experience breathtaking Q: Name three large predators Kluane National Park and Reserve most rare ecosystems? (A: Grasslands) (A: any of the following: Prince Albert in the elk—elk is a large animal that lives rocks, c) large sturgeon (A: b, rocks) Q: At which National Park in the Atlantic views from the cliffs in which protected in Jasper National Park, protects some of the world’s fastest gla- Q: Miguasha Park, Quebec, was Saskatchewan, Pukaskwa in Ontario, or throughout the Rocky Mountains; the Northwest Territories could you National Park in Nova Scotia? Alberta. (A: any of the following: grizzly Q: How deep are the bison bones ciers, and the world’s largest concentra- designated a World Heritage Site Q: Which World Heritage Site and Riding Mountain in Manitoba) killer whale lives in the ocean; the razor visit “Head Hill,” with over 500 muskox (A: Cape Breton Highlands) bear, black bear, wolf, cougar, coyote, at the base of the cliff at Head- tion of which large mammal? (A: the because of the great scientific value, National Park Reserve has one of skulls left by Inuit hunters in the late wolverine) clam lives in sandy seashores, and the Q: Which of the following ecosys- Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Q: L’Anse aux Meadows in Dall’s sheep) richness, and diversity of what feature? the most spectacular wild rivers in the 1800s? (A: Aulavik) Atlantic salmon lives in rivers and the tems are protected in Clayoquot Q: Redberry Lake, designated as a Heritage Site in Alberta? a) up to half a Newfoundland is a culturally (A: fossils) world, with 1,000-metre-high canyons Atlantic Ocean) Q: What does “UNESCO” stand for Sound Biosphere Reserve, which is locat- Biosphere Reserve by the United metre, b) up to 1 metre, c) up to 11 important World Heritage Site because and a waterfall twice as high as Niagara? in UNESCO Biosphere Reserve? (A: ed on Vancouver Island, British Nations Educational, Scientific and metres (A: c, 11 metres) of the 1,000-year-old settlements of Q: What is the term for protected (A: Nahanni, Northwest Territories) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Columbia? a) unlogged rainforest, Cultural Organization, serves as an exam- which people? (A: Vikings) areas that are recognized by the Cultural Organization) b) mountain peaks, c) open ocean, ple of how humans can live together United Nations Educational, Scientific d) oak savannah? (A: a, b and c) with species of large avian wildlife such and Cultural Organization because of © Copyright 2005 as the white pelican. In which province is their cultural or natural value to the www.cwf-fcf.org this reserve located? (A: Saskatchewan) world? (A: World Heritage Sites)