QUIZ ANSWERS
1. d) Grasslands National Park, Sask. 2. b) 2,050 kilometres 3. a) British Columbia. B.C. = 675 km.; Saskatchewan = 630 km. 4. c) Exclave (part of a state or territory separated by a foreign territory) 5. False. The border strays from the 49th by more than 200 metres. 6. b) 912 7. a) The Northwest Angle 8. True. Algeria’s oblique border with Mauritania and Mali is the world’s second longest, at 1,200 kilometres. 9. Three: New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia 10. b) 6 metres 11. c) Peace Garden State. The International Peace Garden was built in 1932 . 12. d) The summit of the Rocky Mountains. For a few decades, the territory to the west (Oregon Country) was a huge area of “joint occupancy.” 13. c) Blackfoot. The western plains’ Blackfoot cultures developed thousands of years ago around the buffalo hunt. 14. b) Fifty-four forty or fight! For Oregon Country’s northern border, at 54°40’ N. 15. d) There was no Canadian prime minister (until Sir John A., in 1867, of course!) 16. b) Manifest Destiny. Although the term wasn’t coined until 1845, the sentiment was thriving well before. 17. False. The original plan was to divide the territories using the major northand south-draining watersheds. 18. False. Indigenous people referred to the border as the Medicine Line because of its apparent power to stop pursuing American soldiers. 19. a) United States. Britain gained around 30,000 km2, versus the U.S.’S 120,000 km2. 20. True. This was proposed by HBC in 1714 as the boundary between their operating region and French territory. 21. True. Mongolia’s population density is less than two people per km2. 22. False. It crosses Chile, Argentina and the Kerguelen Islands. 23. a) 12. Canada, United States, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. 24. d) Carpathian Mountains 25. b) Sakhalin, Russia, is 76,400 km2; Vancouver Island is 31,285 km2. 26. b) 4,572 kilometres 27. True 28. b) Kazakhstan has about 2,880 kilometres of the 49th parallel 29. c) Kazakhstan 30. a) South. But only by a few kilometres. 31. False. The parks formed the world’s first international peace park. 32. c) British Columbia and Quebec 33. True 34. c) 800,000 35. d) Presenting a valid passport or a Nexus card 36. b) Once. Only at the OntarioManitoba border. 37. a) Minnesota. Almost 350,000 Minnesotans visit Canada each year. 38. 1. New York (4 million); 2. Washington (3.2 million); 3. Maine (1 million); 4. North Dakota (700,000) 39. b) busiest crossing (8,000 trucks and 68,000 travellers every day) 40. d) Crown of the Continent 41. d) Lobster fishing. The island’s waters are an economic “grey zone.” 42. b) 45th parallel 43. d) 90 44. a) Quebec (32 border crossings) 45. d) a and b 46. c) Shorter growing season 47. b) The Alaska Panhandle. The “Alaska boundary dispute” was settled in the years after the Klondike Gold Rush. 48. True. 60 North is the most famous. 49. c) 13. Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.