Canadas Landform Regions
Western Cordillera facts
young, tall and jagged, not highly populated, in the valleys there is some mining and some agriculture, made up of the following parts: eastern mountains (banff is there), interior plateau, coast mountains (Whistler).
features of Interior Plains ("prairies")
1) formed from ancient tropical seas 2) lots of wheat fields - deep, rich soil so much wheat grows (Canada's "breadbasket") 3) most of oil and gas comes from here- Alberta 4) most but not all of it is flat (has three escarpments too!)
which 3 landform regions have mountains?
Appalachian, Innuitian, Western Cordillera
Old mountains that have gotten smaller because of weathering
Appalachians
name the 7 regions
Canadian Shield, Interior plains, Great lakes-st lawrence lowlands, Hudson bay-arctic lowlands, Appalachians mountains, Innuitian Mountains,Western cordillera.
Two landform regions that have young mountains
Innuitian, Western Cordillera
facts of Innuitian mountains
North american plate, moved northward, young mountains, jagged and tall, over 250 metres in same places. minerals.
facts of Appalachian Mountains
contained coal, sedimentary, old 300 million years old, have been reduced in size due to weathering
features of the canadian shield
farming, largest region of canada, mining, tourism, cottages, and resorts towns, sudbury
features of Innuitian Mountains
farthest north locations formed during mesozoic era, jagged+tall, over 250 m, some minerals.
features about hudsons bay arctic lowlands
flat, swampy, cold, agriculture is impossible
facts about the Canadian shield
formed during precambrian, used to be a mountain, has many lakes filled with minerals,the foundation of canada's geography
Western Cordillera features
mountains that stretch from the alberta/bc border to pacific ocean, over 700 km wide, young mountains so they are tall and jagged, created when the pacific plate forced under north american plate pushed rocks up, 3 parts to it
facts of great lakes-st lawrence lowlands
moved away from the appalachians, sedimentary formed at the bottom of the valley, urban heartland (most populated), where toronto and montreal
features of Appalachian Mountains
stretch from georgia to maritimes and newfoundland, formed during paleozoic era, began sedimentary rock, old
facts about the Interior Plains
was a shallow tropical sea for millions of years. alberta has most of canada's oil and gas
features about great lakes -st lawrence lowlands
the region formed via faulting, rift valley formed, agriculture, warm climate, flat rich soil, rolling hills