| A | B |
|---|
| Provinces | regional political divisions |
| Glaciers | giant sheets of ice |
| Tundra | vast rolling, treeless plains in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in summer |
| Prairie | a rolling, inland grassy area with fertile soil |
| Cordillera | a group of mountain ranges that run side by side |
| Newsprint | the 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 representatives 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 | referring to a country that has two official languages |
| Autonomy | self-government |
