Wednesday, May 6, 2009

After Port Royal - Champlain Continues~

Questions(Please use complete sentences for full marks)

1. Find a map of the St. Lawrence River. Explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 setnences.

The St. Lawrence River is from the Kingston to the pass of the Matane. The upper river is from the Kingston to the Cornwall. The lower river is from the Cornwall to the Trois Rivieres. The St. Lawrence River is near the Quebec. The general direction is down to up.










2. Find a photograph of the St. Lawrence River you like. Explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 sentences.
The St. Lawrence River is not only near the land, but also have a island at the center of the river, it is under the blue sky , it's quiet, not much storm. People loves this view, it makes them feel relax and comfortable, they have so much their innermost thoughts and feelings want to tell the river.There is also have a towering in the river. I like it because it's looks peaceful~
3. Why did Champlain choose to use a river for transportation? Explain in 3-5 sentences.
If you look at the map of the the St. Lawrence River, you will find that it is along the land, at the edge of the Quebec. River is very useful for him. He can go anywhere that he wants. He can't use the transportation for the land, because it is not convenient if he wants to cross the river to the other side of the land that decollated by the river, for this reason, if he use car or houses, he should changes to use ships. Therefore, a river for transpotation is better.



4. Find a picture of Champlain's habitation at Quebec. Explain what you see in 5-8 sentences.


This is a picture of Champlain's habitation at Quebec. Although it's just have black painted showed on the yellow paper, it's looks grate and gives me the feel of powerful. Here is really big, there is the place for check what's going on outside, two flours of the building, the flat is the best symbol for Champlain. He is very clever, there is a moat around his habitation, which is might used to make the attrack from enemies are getting slower, in this way, they can against enemies faster.



5. The fort was a natural fort because Quebec had towering cliffs.

a.Find a picture of towering cliffs in Quebec. Search in Google using "quebec and towering cliffs".

http://z.about.com/d/gocanada/1/0/N/5/-/-/Gros_Morne.jpg

http://images.google.cn/imglanding?imgurl=http://www.canada-photos.com/data/media/11/cape-chignecto-provincial-park_385.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.canada-photos.com/cape-chignecto-provincial-park-nova-scotia-385-pictures.htm&usg=__BYXrsdiUPr9aD62qpfqspvlb4JU%3D&h=312&w=468&sz=42&hl=zh-CN&tbnid=u5_2VQVLia3ALM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquebec%2Band%2Btowering%2Bcliffs%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dzh-CN%26sa%3DG&q=quebec+and+towering+cliffs&gbv=2&sa=G&start=0#start=3


http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/152/white-cliffs-beach_16244.jpg

b. Why are the cliffs a natural fort important? Explain in 3-5 sentences.

Look at the picture up front this question, as the first picture, if here have something happen, like people fight to each other, people won't get any hugh hurt, the only thing that will happen is the cliffs is bombed by human, so that's the reason why it is very useful. As the picture three, if there have any people that comes from other countries who is going to have a war with the people lived on the cliffs, people down attrack up, up people can save their life! Amazing !

2. Can you find a picture of a moat? Post it.

http://www.sinc-ic.org/graphics/moat.jpg