Cordillera Region
Coast and interior forest, Coniferous Forest, grassland, parkland, tundra, subarctic. This picture was taken in the Yukon and it shows how the mountains folded.
Interior Plains Region
Coniferous forest, grassland, open woodland, tundra, parkland. This picture was taken on Alberta and it represents the Interior plains because it is a flat grassland.
St. Lawrence Lowlands Region
Mixed forest, This picture represents the lowlands because you can see how the weathering and the erosion shaped the landscape.
Canadian Shield Region
Coaniferous forest, tundra, Subarctic , mixed forest, This picture is from Nunavut and it shows the tundra region of the Canadian Shield.
Arctic Region
Subarctic, tundra. You can see in this picture how all the sedimentary rock pushed up and formed mountains.
Appalachian Region
open woodland, coniferous forest. This picture is a good way to show the Appalachians because they have very small mountains and lots of rolling hills.
Remember that this section was to focus on the vegetation. You’ve listed the biomes for each physiographic region but you want to find an image that highlights the biome. What types of plant life would we expect to see in these images for the different biomes?