Science 9 – Climate in Canada Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Heartland, Ontario:

Heartland, Ontario is known to be one of Canada’s largest power centers for retail shops and speciality services. First off, where is Heartland in Canada? It’s found in the southwest of both Québec and Ontario with service industries as the main industry in Heartland. This is because of it’s convenient location and population of around 3 million people and 79% of the province’s employment and economy.

That’s half of the country’s manufacture workers and half the country’s total amount of production found in Heartland. With around 98 billion dollars in manufacturing sales and over 190 storefronts, that is 2 million square feet of real estate (about the size of West Virginia).

Heartland is such a great place to live and work for multiple reasons, such as the good fertile soil and landscaping, along with a rocky and mineral-rich center and fertile farmland in the south with grassy lowlands from the north. There are numerous jobs in cultivate crops, mine minerals, manufacture automobiles, design software, information and communication technologies, biotech, medical devices, and on the edge technology.

All of this makes Heartland the ultimate place to eat, shop, and work.

Causes:

The problem with all of these industries found in Heartland, that means that there are lots of natural hazards to be found. That can be heat and cold temperatures rising and descending at insane rates. Not only that, but there’s also the rising air and ocean temperatures causing more and more natural disasters every year.

Effects:

A lot of effects on Heartland can be easy and gradual changes of sea level rise and plant species migration or dying, adaptations, and preventions of new opportunities in the northern parts of Canada for its economic development. In the summer, the temperature can be as high as 30°C (86°F) and as low as -40°C (-40°F) in the winter. That is a big difference from what is was 10 years ago. With these rates, the temperatures won’t stop rising and sinking every year.

Cites:

“JavaScript Is Required to View This Site.” Ontario.ca, https://www.ontario.ca/page/about-ontario.

(Ontario Climate Change and Health Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Guidelines, 2006)

Warren, F.J. and Lemmen, D.S. (2014): Synthesis; in Canada in a Changing Climate: Sector Perspectives on Impacts and Adaptation, (ed.) F.J. Warren and D.S. Lemmen; Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, p. 1-18.