This region is known for its oil and gas industry.
What is the Interior Plains?
100
This region is located primarily in British Columbia & the Yukon.
What is the Western Cordillera?
100
Despite its warmer climate, this region is lightly populated because it is so mountainous.
What is the Western Cordillera?
100
This region is known for how flat it is. However, much of it is actually made up of rolling hills, and deep, wide river valleys.
What is the Interior Plains?
200
This region is a result of the North American Plate colliding with Europe and northern Africa during the formation of Pangaea.
What is the Appalachians?
200
This region contains lots of minerals and as a result has a large mining industry. In fact, it is often called 'Canada's storehouse of metallic minerals'.
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
This region is located in southern Ontario and Quebec.
What is the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands?
200
This region is the most densely popualted landform region in Canada.
What is the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands?
200
This region contains barren mountains (some over 2500 m in height).
What is the Innuitian Mountains?
300
This region formed when the North American Plate collided with the Pacific Plate after Pangaea broke apart.
What is the Western Cordillera?
300
This region grows a lot of grain!!
What is the Interior Plains?
300
This landform region is located just east of the Western Cordillera.
What is the Interior Plains?
300
Not a lot of people live in this region because part of it is swampy and much of the region remains frozen most of the year.
What is the Hudson Bay - Arctic Lowlands Region?
300
This region contains many lakes, forests, rivers, and rocky outcrops.
What is the Canadian Shield?
400
This region formed in the middle of the Mesozoic era when the North American plate moved northward.
What is the Innuitian Mountains?
400
This region is known for its abundance of manufacturing industries. They locate in this region because the region also contains key transportation routes.
What is the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands?
400
This landform region is located where mountains formed during the collision of plates that ultimately formed Pangaea.
What is the Appalachians?
400
Settlement in this region occurs mostly along deep harbours, in fertile river valleys, and along the coast.
What is the Appalachians?
400
Glaciation has created a rolling landscape in part of this region. This region is known as Canada's "industrial and urban" heartland.
What is the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands?
500
During this region's formation, it was often covered by shallow seas. Sediments from the Shield and Rocky Mountains were deposited into these seas and later compressed into sedimentary rock.
What is the Interior Plains?
500
This region plays host to a large shipping industry (due to its deep harbours), mining, and farming (due to its fertile river valleys).
What is the Appalachians?
500
This landform region covers parts of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec?
What is the Hudson Bay - Arctic Lowlands?
500
Very few people live here due its ccccold climate and the fact that much of it is covered by snow year-round!!
What is the Innuitian Mountains region?
500
This region has rolling mountains and hills due to erosion. It also has long bays and river valleys.