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This landform region covers more than half of Canada and is known for its ancient rock, thin soils, and many lakes.
What is the Canadian Shield?
What is Latitude in lowern?
This LOWERN factor explains why cities closer to the equator tend to be warmer year-round.
Short, tough grasses and lichens grow here due to permafrost and extremely short summers.
What is the Tundra?
This name of this type of climate relates to N in lowern, and includes Toronto and Ottawa, known for hot summers and cold snowy winters.
What is the Continental Climate?
This LOWERN factor explains why Vancouver is much wetter than Calgary.
What is Relief (mountain barrier effects)?
This region contains the youngest mountains in Canada, formed by tectonic plate collision along the western edge of the country.
What are the Western Cordillera?
What are Winds and Air Masses?
Systems like polar winds or westerlies influence temperature and precipitation.
This vegetation region contains cone-bearing trees like spruce and pine, covering much of the Canadian Shield.
What is the Boreal Forest?
This climate region includes Vancouver and has mild winters, cool summers, and heavy rainfall.
What is the Pacific Maritime?
This landform region is associated with fishing villages and rugged coastlines.
What are the Appalachians?
Flat, fertile lands created by sediment deposits over millions of years make this region Canada’s agricultural heartland.
What are the Interior Plains?
What is Elevation?
Cities at higher elevations are colder due to thinner air.
Grasses and small shrubs dominate this region because of low precipitation.
What are the Prairies (Grasslands)?
Very cold, dry air dominates this region, which includes Nunavut and the northern Arctic islands.
What is the Arctic Climate?
This landform region includes fertile valleys and fjords carved by glaciers along the Pacific coast.
What is the Western Cordillera?
This region includes the oldest mountains in Canada, now heavily eroded and located near the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This factor describes how proximity to large bodies of water moderates temperatures.
What is Ocean Currents?
This region includes giant Douglas firs, red cedars, and mild, wet conditions. Also contains the only rainforest.
What is the West Coast Forest?
This climate region includes the prairies and features low precipitation and extreme temperatures.
What is the Prairie Climate?
This northern mountain region is made of young, rugged mountains similar in age to the Western Cordillera but contains no significant trees due to its harsh Arctic climate.
What are the Innuitian Mountains?
This region is located in the far North (not all the way) and includes flat, low-lying tundra shaped by glaciation and permafrost.
What are the Hudsons Bay Arctic Lowlands?
What is Relief?
This factor affects rainfall due to orographic precipitation and rain shadows.
This region features a mix of deciduous and coniferous trees and is located in southern Ontario and Quebec.
What is the Mixed Forest?
This landform region is Canada’s smallest but most densely populated, containing fertile soils, major cities like Toronto and Montreal, and important agricultural land.
What are the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands?
Name all of the landform regions with proper spelling
Canadian Shield
Interior Plains
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands
Hudson Bay–Arctic Lowlands
Appalachian Mountains
Western Cordillera
Innuitian Mountains