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Grade 6 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 8

The Atlantic Region

Provinces, coasts, weather and people.

What your child practises

Practises where the Atlantic region is, its physical features and weather, and the cultural, ethnic and linguistic groups who live there. It follows the Grade 6 social studies skill descriptors on geography in the New Brunswick curriculum.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Geography: Methods and Tools, Geography: Human Systems and Interactions · locating the Atlantic region, its physical features and weather, and its cultural groups

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What can you learn from a population map?

    • how deep the ocean is
    • when a holiday is
    • where more or fewer people live
    • how tall the trees are

  2. Question 2

    Compared with the middle of Canada, the weather on the Atlantic coast is usually…

    • much hotter
    • frozen all year
    • milder because of the ocean
    • always dry

  3. Question 3

    On a map, what does a scale bar help you find?

    • the real distance between places
    • the direction of the wind
    • the age of a city
    • the weather

  4. Question 4

    Which four provinces make up the Atlantic region?

    • New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba
    • Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta and Yukon
    • New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Nunavut and Alberta

  5. Question 5

    On a map, which direction is the Atlantic region from the Prairies?

    • west
    • south
    • north
    • east

  6. Question 6

    Which Atlantic city has a famous port and is New Brunswick’s oldest incorporated city?

    • Saint John
    • Moncton
    • Edmundston
    • Bathurst

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