| A | B |
|---|
| provinces | regional political division similar to states |
| glaciers | giant slow-moving sheets of ice |
| tundra | vast rolling treeless plain in high latitiude climates in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in the summer |
| prairie | rolling, inland grassy area with very fertile soil |
| Cordillera | group of mountain ranges that run side by side |
| newsprint | type of paper used for printing newspapers |
| dominion | self-governing nation that accepts the British monarch as head of state |
| Parliamentary Democracy | government in which voters elect representative to a lawmaking body which chooses a Prime Minister to head the government |
| Prime Minister | official who heads the government in a parliamentary democracy |
| bilingual | refers to a country that has two official languages |
| Nunavut | "our land" Inuit territory created in 1999. Government and mineral rights under Inuit control |
| autonomy | self-governing |
