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100

The provinces that make up the Canadian Shield in Canada.

What are Alberta, Sask., Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and NFLD (labrador)?

100

What are 2 activities that they do in the winter?

ICE fishing, skiing/snowboarding, snowmobiling, snowshoing, and tobagganning.

100

High, flat areas, surrounded by mountains or cliffs.

What are plateaus?

100

Because of the rock base, water gets trapped in dips and craters.

What is the reason why there are so many lakes and ponds in the Canadian Shield?

100

A forestry method that involves cutting down all the trees in a select area.

What is clear cutting.

200

The percentage of the province covered by the Canadian Shield.

What is over 50%?

200
What are 2 activities they do in the summer?
swiming, waterskiing, jetskiing, sayling, kayaking/canoeing, hiking, biking, bird watching, and fishing.
200

Erosion of large mountains by water, wind and glaciers over millions of years.

Why the Canadian Shield is mostly rocky?

200

The amount of large rivers and the building of large dams, helped produce this type of electricity?

What is hydroelectricity

200
because of this region's geography, building underground pipes that deliver resourses to people can be a challenge. What is causing this specificly?
Bare rock and thin soil
300

The Canadian Shield has about this percentage of Canada's population.

What is 10%

300

The 3 climate zones of the Canadian Shield.

What are the Arctic, Borel and Laurentian.

300

The two mountain ranges in the Canadian Shield.

What are the Torngat Mountains in Labrador and the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec?

300
True or false. A river in the canadian shield was once a highway for the first nations.
true
300
Where is the first diamond mine and when did they discover it?
In Jericho,Nunavut, 1998.
400

The territories that are part of the Canadian Shield.

What are Nunavut and NWT?

400

This zone is the coldest, driest, and gets the least amount of daylight hours in the winter.

What is the Arctic Zone?

400

The area where there are many large wetlands.

What are the Hudson Bay Lowlands.

400
When the Dene Suline traders came to Fort Prince of Whales on Hudson Bay,what type of metal did they bring?
copper
400

The two minerals mined near Sudbury, Ontario.

What are copper and nickel?

500

The large body of water that the Canadian Shield surrounds.

What is Hudson Bay?

500

A short growing season, poor soil, and cold temperatures.

What are the reasons why there is little agriculture in the Canadian Shield.

500

Building roads in the Canadian Shield is difficult not only because of the rock, but also because of the soft, spongy ground known as...

What is muskeg?

500

The smaller of the two "Bays" that are in the Canadian Shield

What is James Bay?

500

Forestry is a main industry here due to this large forest what covers most of the Canadian Shield.

What is the Boreal Forest?