Arctic Region: The Canadian Shield pushed sedimentary rock due to pressure thus creating Fold Mountains. It includes lowlands, plains, and mountains such as the Innuitian Mountains which cover the east part of the arctic. West is covered in lowlands. Due to global warming the ice has melted leaving mineral deposits.
(Selkirk Mou
ntains)
Cordillera Region: Includes mountain ranges, trenches and valleys. It also holds, glaciers, ice fields and volcanoes that stretch on the mountain range from Alaska to Chile. It was formed when plates collides and earth’s crust felt apart. It holds mineral deposits; gold, copper, and coal. Rich fertile soil was the result of minerals carried downstream.
(Mount Waddington)
Interior Plains Region: Before the plains were what they are today, the area has a tropical climate. Water brought in carried plants and animals and over time they became embedded into the sedimentary layers, forming deposits of fossil fuels (natural gas, oil & evaporates eg. Potash) the plains were created as soils washed up at the brim of the Canadian Shield and soon began to build up. Flat with rolling hills, rivers and valleys. Flat grasslands were there before they evolved to boreal forest.
(Saskatoon prairie)
Canadian shield region: They are hard, rigid blocks, surrounded by younger continental land forms.This region once was a volcanic mountain range and over millions of years weathering and erosion have worn the land down to a landscape of flat, bare rock, lakes and wetlands. The shield is composed of many valuable minerals such as diamonds, gold and lead.
Stoney Lake, Ontario
The St. Lawrence Lowlands are between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, and extend along the banks of the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City.This region was formed by the retreating ice sheets that covered most of Canada. The ice sheets pushed soils from the Shield onto the area where the lowlands are today. The fertile land allowed First Nations people, such as the Huron, to practice a stable agricultural economy, and later European immigrants established farms and orchards. The St. Lawrence lowlands may be small but the are a home for almost half of Canada’s population because of the agriculture.
St. Lawrence River
The Appalachian region is an extension of the Appalachian mountains,which begin in the southeastern United States and end in the Maritime provinces of Canada. It has a varied landscape of rolling hills, valleys, small mountains, highlands, and coastal fjords. Lots of coal and minerals, fishing resources, big forests and farmland encouraged the creation of numerous communities along the coast and in the river valleys of the Appalachian region.
Rolling Hills, Nova Scotia
By: Essly & Jed
