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Interactive gSlide set with maps of Landforms, Climate, Vegetation, Permafrost, Ecozones AND Climate Graphs from across Canada.
- Canadian Shield
- Western Cordillera
- Canadian Arctic
- Appalachian Region
- Interior Plains
- Hudson Bay Lowlands
- St. Lawrence Lowlands
With an area close to 5 million km2, the Canadian Shield covers 48 per cent of Canada's land surface (including freshwater lakes and Arctic islands). Even if the portion of the Shield found in the Arctic is excluded, the Canadian Shield remains the largest physiographic region in Canada. Almost all of Quebec and Ontario, much of Manitoba and northe...
The Western Cordillera is about 800 km wide and extends from southern British Columbia north to the Yukon and the Beaufort Sea. While most of the Western Cordillera lies within these regions it also extends into southwestern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The total area covered by this physiographic region is 1.6 million km2(16 per cent of ...
Canada's Arctic is located north of the Arctic Circle and comprises 2.1 million km2 (21 per cent of the country’s land area). The Arctic is Canada’s most complex physiographic region, in part because it overlaps with other regions, namely the Canadian Shield, Western Cordillera and Interior Plains. These three regions of overlap may be considered s...
The Appalachian Region is 360,000 km2or about 3.6 per cent of Canada's land surface. It lies between the St. Lawrence Lowlands to the northwest and the Atlantic Continental Shelf to the east and southeast. Like other mountain regions, its terrain is a mosaic of uplands and lowlands, the characters, boundaries and shapes of which reflect the complex...
The Interior Plains area of Canada encompasses 1.8 million km2, or 18 per cent of Canada's land surface. The region lies between the Canadian Shield and the Western Cordillera. The plains are distinguished by vast expanses of sedimentary bedrock consisting mainly of poorly consolidated shales, siltstones and sandstones. Bedrock relief plays a role ...
The Hudson Bay Lowlands encompass 320,000 km2, or 3.2 per cent of Canada's land surface. It is a sedimentary basin, 40 per cent of which lies in the middle of the Canadian Shield. The remaining 60 per cent lies beneath the waters of Hudson Bay and James Bay. Apart from the Sutton Ridges in the northeast of the lowland, the bedrock terrain is comple...
The St. Lawrence Lowlands (180,000 km2, or 1.8 per cent of Canada's land surface) lie between the Canadian Shield to the north and the Appalachian Region to the east and southeast. This is the smallest of Canada’s seven physiographic regions yet by far the most densely populated (see also Human Geography and Canada; Human Settlement in Canada). Maj...
Sep 10, 2024 · This map shows the terrestrial ecozones of Canada. An ecozone is an area of the Earth’s surface that represents a large ecological zone and has characteristic landforms and climate. There are 20 basic ecozones: fifteen terrestrial and five marine.
These are the physiographic regions of Canada: The landscape of the Shield has been levelled by many long periods of erosion and presents an even, monotonous skyline interrupted by rounded or flat-topped summits and ranges of hills.
Explore the seven regions of Canada in which climate and geology have given rise to an array of unique landforms and geographic oddities
Oct 3, 2021 · Take a look through this story map to explore your landform region! Continue through to find your landform region and fill in your table. Click a region on the map to see its name. The Western Cordillera covers most of British Columbia and the Yukon Territories, as well as small parts of Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
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Physiographic regions are large areas that share similar relief and landforms shaped by common geomorphic processes and geological history. Physiographic regions are often used to describe Canada’s geography to show regional differences in climate, vegetation, population and the economy.
