Zack, Max
Cordillera: I think people should visit Barkerville. For the reason of history and gold. History goes back till the forty-niners a baseball team called after the same year that the Gold Rush started.
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Interior Plains: The Calgary Stampede Rodeo is a place where you go get a thrill of watching other people getting pounded on by huge angry bulls. Its a place you go to have fun and enjoy the show.
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Canadian Shield: There isn’t much to do here. But if you like the outdoors and hiking and camping this is the place to do it.
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St. Lawrence Lowlands: The Most visited site is the Fredric Remington Museum. it has many interesting facts and you get to learn lots about history.
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Appalachians: The Loop Trail is very famous because is displays much history about the Appalachians. I personally like hiking and I would recommend this is to you also.
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Arctic: The North Pole. I would definitely go o see the north pole if I was just passing by the Arctic.
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Topography and Vegetation
The Topography of the Appalachian region is an extension of the Appalachian Mountains, it began in the southeastern United States and end in the maritime provinces of Canada. The landscape looks like rolling hills, valleys, small mountains, highlands, and coastal fjords, what is left of an older mountain range worn down by glaciers and by millions of years of erosion. Igneous rock is present as a result of ancient volcanic activity, as is metamorphic rock, which is formed by hear and pressure. You will also find, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Tundra, and Mixed Forest in the Appalachian region.
The Canadian Shields Regions topography, stretches from the arctic islands south to the United States boarder, and east across Labrador. The shield had once been a volcanic mountain range, over hundreds of years of erosion and weathering, not to forget about the glaciers, that all had worn down the landscape to bare rocks, wet and flat lands, also lakes. After millions of years of erosion and weathering, especially the action of the glaciers, it has worn down the land to a landscape of flat, bare rocks, lakes, and wetlands. You will also find, Open Woodland, Coniferous Forest, Tundra, Subarctic, and Mixed Forest in the Canadian Shield region.
The Arctic Regions topography includes mountains, plains, and lowlands. The pressure at the northeastern part of the Canadian Shield pushed up the sedimentary rock to form, Fold Mountains. The lowlands are composed of sedimentary rock, they have deposits of oil and natural gas. The possibility of increase shipping through the arctic waters has raised concerns among the Inuit, who rely on the wildlife of the regions for their food and clothing, the Canadian government and environmentalist have the same fear. You will also find, Tundra and Subarctic in the Arctic region.
The St. Lawrence Lowlands this region was mostly formed by retreating sheets of ice that mostly covered Canada in ice age. The ice sheets pushed soil from the shield to where the lowlands are today. As the ice melted giant lakes formed, larger lakes remanded as bluffs. Between the old shore lines and the present lakes, fertile areas of well-drained sandy soils were left behind. These areas now make up the rich agricultural land around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. You will also find, Coniferous Forest, Mixed Forest in the St. Lawrence Lowlands region.
The Interior Plains region stretches from the Canadian shield to the Cordillera Mountains, the interior plains were formed as soils carried by rivers from the Canadian shield were deposited at its edge. These deposits formed horizontal layers of sedimentary layers to form large deposits of fossil fuels, natural gas, oil and evaporites such as potash are some of those. The wide, grassland and flat spaces were ideal for grazing animals such as bison, later it was turned into vast farms and cattle ranches. The “Dirty Thirties,” as the 1930s became known, saw the ruin of crops due to drought, The wend blew the soil away, creating large dust storms, because the large areas were so dry. You will also find, Parkland, Grassland, Coast and Interior Forest, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Tundra in the Interior Plains region.
The Cordillera region is made up of parallel mountain ranges separated by a series of plateaus, trenches, and valleys in British Columbia and the Yukon. The diverse landscape, which also includes dormant volcanoes, glaciers, and ice fields, are all a part of the vast chain of mountains that stretches from Alaska to chile. The youngest landforms in Canada were formed when play collision caused the earths crust to buckle, pushing and folding volcanic rock into mountains. This plate movement is called plate tectonics, also caused the formation of trenches, valleys, plateaus.Erosion from rivers and glaciers created the rugged, mountainous landscape seen today. You will also find, Coast and Interior Forest, Grassland, Parkland, Tundra, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Subarctic in the Cordillera region.
Human-Environmental Interaction
| Numbers Employed by Industry (By Thousand) | Agriculture | Forestry, Mining, Fishing, Oil and Gas | Manufacture | Services |
| Cordillera | 305.1 | 372.6 | 1,711.0 | 5,459.2 |
| St.Lawrence Lowlands | 79.8 | 28.6 | 737.2 | 5,511.7 |
| Interior Plains | 58.9 | 178.4 | 148.8 | 121.6 |
| Canadian Shield | 54.0 | 30.1 | 483.5 | 182.0 |
| Appalachians | 3.9 | 2.6 | 5.7 | 3.5 |
| Arctic | 1,451.0 | 1,297 | 2,295.0 | 896.0 |
| GDP by Industry | Agriculture | Forestry, Mining, Fishing, Oil and Gas | Manufacture | Services |
| Cordillera | 3,736.0 | 1,672.0 | 4,561.0 | 1,371,8.0 |
| St. Lawrence Lowlands | 5,041.5 | 7,901,200.0 | 75,140,600.0 | 450,950.6 |
| Interior Plains | 142,923 | 25,516 | 15,095,675 | 86,720,046 |
| Canadian Shield | 2.1% | 1.5% | 12.2% | 15.0% |
| Appalachians | 25,902 | 133,563 | 171,563 | 1,165,327 |
| Arctic | 30.o | 1,109.1 | 15.8 | 91.5 |
Population/Topography:
The topography affects where people choose to live because it take a lot more resouces and cost to get up into the mountains or hills let alone get electricity and running water there too.
More people tend to live on flatter land.
Population/Climate:
The majority of people like to live on flatter land.
The climate around the flatter lands are more moderate and cooler.
Citations:
“Google.” Google. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. <https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1368&bih=599&q=topographic map of canada&oq=topographic map of canada&gs_l=img.3…0.0.1.744.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0….0…1ac..64.img..2.9.2262.iz7-kELj8fQ>.
“Gross Domestic Product at Basic Prices, by Industry (monthly).” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/gdps04a-eng.htm>.