Existant Biomes In Each Physiographic Region:
Arctic:
-Subarctic
-Tundra
Cordillera:
-Grassland
-Parkland
-Open Woodland
-Coniferous Forest
-Coast and Interior Forest
-Tundra
Interior plains:
-Grassland
-Parkland
-Open Woodland
-Coniferous Forest
-Tundra
The Canadian Shield:
-Subarctic
-Mixed Forest
-Open Woodland
-Tundra
St. Lawrence Lowlands:
-Coniferous Forest
-Mixed Forest
Appalachians:
-Open Woodland
-Coniferous Forest
-Mixed Forest
Describing The Biomes:
Subarctic- swampy; scattered coniferous trees mixed with tundra vegetation. Wildlife: caribou, lemmings, and snowy owls.
(The Mackenzie Mountains, Yukon-Northwest Territories)
Tundra- treeless landscape mostly low shrubs, mosses, and lichens. Polar bears, seals, walruses, muskox, and Arctic foxes survive here.
(Keewatin area, Churchill, Manitoba)
Open woodland- scattered evergreen trees, shrubs, and grass. Caribou, martens, bears, geese, beaver, and lynx all live here.
(Woodland West)
Coniferous forest- Evergreens such as spruce, fir, pine, and aspen. Wildlife: deer, moose, black bears, fur-bearing animals, hawks, eagles, wild ducks. This are contain infertile soil.
(Alberta)
Coast and interior forest- Wet and mild climate. The slopes of mountains above the treeline have Tundra and Arctic vegetation; there is short grass and plants. There is an abundant wildlife: cougars, mountain sheep, bears, moose, and birds.
(Boughton Island, Central Coast B.C.)
Mixed forest- softwood trees: hemlock and cedar & hardwood trees: maple, birch, oak, and ash. There is the same wildlife as in the coniferous forest. Soil is more fertile in mixed forests than in coniferous forests.
(Algoma Highlands, Ontario)
Parkland- long grasses, clumps of aspen and cottonwood trees; the wildlife is the same as in the coniferous forest and grasslands.
(Alberta)
Grassland- short grasses, not enough moisture for trees… Wildlife: antelope, gophers, and wild fowl. The soil here is more fertile than in the forest regions.
(Frenchman River Valley and Three Sisters Butte, West Block)
The Formation of Physiographic Regions:
Cordillera: Formed by the collision of the North American and Pacific plates.
Interior plains: Made up of soil that was carried down by rivers from the Canadian Shield and deposited at it’s edge. Then, they turned into flat lands, river valleys and rolling hills.
The Canadian Shield: Used to be a volcanic mountain range. Over time, weathering and erosion have worn land down to a landscape of flat, bare rocks, lakes, and wetlands.
St. Lawrence Lowlands: Formed when ice sheets retreated and pushed soils to make lowlands. When the ice sheets melted, huge lakes were created all over the St. Lawrence region.
Appalachians: Range of mountains that were worn down by glaciers and erosion. It made a diverse landscape of rolling hills, valleys, small mountains, highlands, and coastal fjords.
