Physical Features
High or hilly areas of land.
What are the UPLANDS?
How many CLIMATE ZONES are there in the Canadian Shield? Name them.
East Arctic Zone
West Arctic Zone
Northern Interior Zone
North Laurentian Zone
South Laurentian Zone
These were the first peoples to live in the CANADIAN SHIELD Region.
Who are the CREE, DENE, INNU, and INUIT PEOPLES?
The Canadian Shield is known for producing and exporting this product around the world.
What is PAPER?
These processes must be done by companies to make sure that mining is performed in an environmentally friendly way.
What is reducing harmful gases by adding filters to their chimneys?
These trees, such as maples, lose their leaves once a year.
What are DECIDUOUS TREES?
This climate zone is dry and very cold year-round.
What is the WEST ARCTIC ZONE?
Hundreds of years ago, the first nations' people did these things as a part of their way of life.
What was living along rivers and coastlines to catch fish and sea mammals? They also hunted animals and gathered plants in the region’s thick forests.
These natural resources are a large part of the region.
What are mining and Pulp and Paper?
These elements must be cleaned, by law, once leaving a mine.
What are water, air, and soil?
These are the provinces and territories that make up the Canadian Shield.
What are Nunavut, North West Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador?
This city receives the highest average monthly precipitation. Name the month when this happens.
What is SCHEFFERVILLE during the month of JULY?
These are some of the jobs that exist in the region today.
What are jobs in Healthcare, Mining, and Forestry-related jobs?
This process is used to get metal out of the rock, where the rock is heated at very high temperatures.
What is SMELTING?
A way paper waste can be reused to be more environmentally friendly.
What is using waste to develop friendly fuel for vehicles?
This type of land helps to clean water by trapping harmful chemicals.
What are the WETLANDS?
This climate zone is COLD in the WINTER and HOT in the SUMMER.
What is the SOUTH LAURENTIAN ZONE?
Uranium City, Saskatchewan was named for this reason. Tell what happened to this city.
What is Uranium? When the mines ran out of this valuable mineral, the mines closed and most people moved away.
These minerals are mined in the Canadian Shield Region.
What are iron, gold, silver, uranium, copper, zinc, lead, diamonds, and nickel?
A non-sustainable practice in forestry. Explain.
What is clear-cutting? Clear-cutting is the practice where whole forests are cut down in one area.
These are the two most common physical features of the Canadian Shield region. Name and describe them.
What are the Plateaus and Uplands and Coniferous Trees?
Uplands are high or hilly areas. Plateaus are flat, elevated landforms that rise sharply above the surrounding area.
Coniferous trees have needle-shaped leaves and grow cones.
This climate zone has LONG, COLD WINTERS and SHORT WARM SUMMERS.
What is the NORTH LAURENTIAN ZONE?
Tourists come to visit the Canadian Sheid for these reasons.
What is camping, fishing, and enjoying the scenery?
This is the process of making paper.
What is first, cutting down trees, grinding wood chips into small particles. The particles are then mixed with water and chemicals and mashed into pulp, a soft and wet mixture. This is formed into paper and then recycled once used.
Things we can do as Stewards of the Earth to ensure that we use resources in a conservative way to ensure sustainability.
What is replanting, recycling, repairing, giving time for animal populations to reproduce, cleaning and filtering earth elements, etc.?