1. “Where you live determines how you live.”
Canadian Regions
“Where you live determines how you live.”

2. Size Canada is huge!... Only Russia is larger.
Canada is 4800 km north-south
5000km west to east
“Space, land, and winter – these are the overwhelming realities of Canada.” ~ Wade Davis, ethnobotanist and writer, Shadows in the Sun (1992)

3. Isolation
90% of Canada is so far north that the growing season does not allow for agriculture, (crops)
Except for the USA, Canada is far away from other countries
“Canada is so big as to seem invisible.”
~ Brian Moore, novelist, Canada (1963, 1968)

4. Canadian Provinces and Territories
Take a moment to fill in the names of all the provinces and territories, as well as their capital cities. Make sure to use a capital letter!

6. Physical Regions of Canada
Canada has 7 distinct surface landforms:
Canadian Shield
Western Cordillera
Appalachians
Innuitians
Great Lakes
Interior Plains
Lowlands

7. Tons of rock, bogs, muskeg and lake basins
CANADIAN SHIELD
Largest region
Tons of rock, bogs, muskeg and lake basins
Soils are poor, thin, acidic, or non- existent
Forestry & mineral mining, (gold, copper, nickel, uranium)

8. CANADIAN SHIELD

9. Western Cordillera
Pacific mountain system and the interior Rocky Mountains
Much erosion, peaks over 3000 m, and large valleys
Some soil, but only in valleys
Forestry, minerals, (gold), and hydroelectric power

10. Western Cordillera

11. APPALACHIANS Older mountains, peaks up to 1200 m high
Soil is mostly poor and swampy (except in the PEI lowlands)
Coal a major resource

12. APPALACHIANS

13. INNUITIANS Located in the far, isolated north
Mountain area comprised of glaciers and ice fields

14. INNUITIANS

15. GREAT LAKES – ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS
Small region resting on sedimentary rocks
Fertile soil, construction material, hydroelectric power

16. GREAT LAKES – ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS

17. INTERIOR PLAINS Rests on sedimentary rocks
Flat areas, rolling hills, valleys created by glacial meltwater
Thick, glacial-lake soils in the southern area
Elevation increases from east to west
Several minerals, farming, oil and gas

18. INTERIOR PLAINS

19. Level area near Hudson Bay and a series of islands
LOWLANDS
Level area near Hudson Bay and a series of islands
Swampy muskeg, other poorly drained areas, frozen ground
Few natural resources … some fossil fuels

20. LOWLANDS