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Canada’s Landform Regions
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Landform Region Map
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Canada has three basic types of landforms.1. Shield 2. Highlands 3. Lowlands
They form a pattern.
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The Creation of Canada’s Landforms!
The next few slides contain a series of hand drawn images illustrating the creation of Canada’s Landform regions.
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1. Precambrian Canada
Erosion
Deposition Deposition
TransportationTransportation
Plate Collision
Folded Mountains
2. Paleozoic Canada
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Landforms not seen (in the back) - Hudson Bay Lowlands, - Arctic Lowlands, - Innuitian Mountains
Western Cordillera
Interior Plains
Canadian Shield
Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
Appalachians
4. Cenozoic Canada
Plate Collision
3. Mesozoic Canada
Glaciers!!! – ended about 20 000 years ago
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Western Cordillera
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Western Cordillera
• Mountains of the Yukon• Notice the jagged peaks• If you looks carefully,
you will also see glaciers
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Western Cordillera
• One of the large glaciers found in the Yukon
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Western Cordillera
• A glacier-fed lake in Jasper National Park in Alberta
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Western Cordillera
• Jasper National Park• The valley is U-shaped
because it was carved by a glacier, not the river you see here
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Western Cordillera
• The Coast Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop in this picture of North Vancouver, BC
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Interior Plains
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Interior Plains
• Farmland near the Red River in Southern Manitoba
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Interior Plains
• The meandering Red River in Southern Manitoba
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Interior Plains
• The Cypress Hills in Southern Saskatchewan
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Interior Plains
• The Qu’Appelle Valley in Southern Saskatchewan
• A rare change from the flat landscape in this region
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Interior Plains
• Cows graze in a rocky field
• These rocks, deposited by glaciers, are called moraine
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Arctic Lowlands
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Arctic Lowlands
• Tundra in Nunavut• Notice the flat land and
strewn rocks
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Arctic Lowlands
• The flat, exposed land of Prince Patrick Island in the Northwest Territories
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Arctic Lowlands
• Another image of Prince Patrick Island in the NWT
• The flat land allows melting water to cover a vast area
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Innuitian Mountains
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Innuitian Mountains
• The dramatic cliffs of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
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Innuitian Mountains
• A glacier and its melt water on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
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Innuitian Mountains
• Red rocks and barren landscape on Melville Island
• Melville Island is divided between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories
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Canadian Shield
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Canadian Shield
• Lake near Port Cartier, Quebec
• Rounded hills in the background
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Canadian Shield
• Exposed rock along the lakeshore
• Notice the scratches in the rock
• They were caused by glaciers
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Canadian Shield
• Boulder field in the Northwest Territories
• More evidence of glaciation
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Canadian Shield
• A boulder in the Northwest Territories
• It was deposited here by a retreating glacier
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Canadian Shield
• Exposed rock near Abitibi, Quebec
• The scratches are the result of a glacier
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Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
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Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
• Typical farm in Ontario
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Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
• The city of Toronto from the air
• Notice the lack of hills• Also notice the smog
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Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
• Farmland near Toronto
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Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
• Southern Ontario from the air
• Notice the flat horizon
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Hudson Bay Lowlands
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Hudson Bay Lowlands
• A wetland known as a muskeg in Northern Manitoba
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Hudson Bay Lowlands
• The watery terrain outside Churchill, Manitoba
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Hudson Bay Lowlands
• The water-filled landscape near Fort Severn, Ontario
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Hudson Bay Lowlands
• A forested bog outside Gilliam, Manitoba
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Appalachian Mountains
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Appalachian Mountains
• Rocky shoreline at West Dover, NS
• The boulders were deposited by glaciers
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Appalachian Mountains
• Valley in Cape Breton• Notice the rounded
mountains
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Appalachian Mountains
• Aspy Bay in Cape Breton
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Appalachian Mountains
• Cape Breton Highlands• The mountains have
been flattened by erosion
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