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