Nunavut and its environmental attributes Nunavut is a place where not very much exists. It is in the north, where only ice, snow, and small shrubs exist. In this PowerPoint I will show you what Nunavut is like in more detail. Starting with some information about it’s climate

Coppermine Climate Info

Baker Lake Climate Info

Yellowknife Climate Info

Now I know that you’re looking at this information and saying “what is this” So lets make it clearer with some Climate graphs.

Climate Graph of Coppermine

Climate Graph for Yellowknife

Climate Graph for Baker Lake

As you can see, Nunavut doesn’t get a lot of rain, most of it is snow, since it is up north. As for it’s climate, it doesn’t go very high above 10º celsius. Proving yet again how cold Nunavut. Apart from the summer, it’s temperature is mostly below 0º. This concludes the climate part of the project, now to move on to the landform part.

Nunavut’s Landforms Nunavut is part of 3 different landforms. The inuitian mountains, the arctic lowlands, and part of the canadian shield. Nunavut is mostly the arctic lowlands, where it is mostly snow and ice.

In the 1st picture, this shows the type of terrain in very deep Nunavut, as you can see, it’s all ice. In the 2nd picture, were not as deep anymore, around the middle, and in the 3rd picture were around the border, of the tundra landform.

What is tundra? What is tundra? The word comes from “ tundar ” meaning treeless plain. Tundra is characterized by treeless areas, dwarfed shrubs and miniature wildflowers adapted to a short growing season. The Northwest Territories can be divided into two main tundra vegetation regions. Arctic Tundra and Taiga and Coniferous forest. In all of these types of tundra there are at least 834 different flowering plants that grow in the Northwest Territories but the main vegetation is grasses, mosses and lichens.shrubswildflowers

Arctic TundraArctic Tundra The arctic is basically like a desert with no trees, until it comes to the tree line more southerly. Arctic tundra covers about half of the mainland area of the North West Territories and all the islands in the arctic that lie in the arctic zone. The vegetation here is mosses, lichens, dwarfed shrubs where it is extremely cold.

Dwarf Birch Lichens Cushion Plants MossTrees and shrubs in Mackenzie Valley

Taiga (Coniferous) Forest Taiga forest is located south of the tundra. Fir and spruce trees grow well here and are the starting line of the tree line. Taiga forest occupies a lot of Canada, but not most of the North West Territories, as seen below. There are bogs and marshes, these are there because its wet and rainy year around. The main trees there are pine, fir, and spruce which branches are broken off from the snow

Northerly Taiga Southerly Taiga