1. Landform Regions of Canada

2. Two Factors are responsible for the appearance of all landforms in Canada:
The Underlying Geology (The history, composition and structure of the earth’s crust)
The impact of glaciation (the state of being covered by glaciers or massive ice sheets)

3. The 7 Landform Regions: Can be divided into 3 categories:
1) Canadian Shield
2) The Interior Plains
3) Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
4) Hudson Bay – Arctic Lowlands
5) Appalachian Mountains
6) Innuitian Mountains
7) Western Cordillera
Can be divided into 3 categories:
Shield
Lowlands
Highlands

4. What do you see???

5. Shield The Canadian Shield Exposed Bedrock
Hundreds of THOUSANDS of lakes and rivers!
Trees?...Mixed
Relatively flat…not always the case!
LARGE…more than half of Canada!
Bedrock = Impermiable which means water does NOT go through

7. Lowlands Interior Plains Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands
Hudson Bay – Arctic Lowlands
- Relatively Flat…Gently Rolling Landscape
- Very Fertile
- Swampy forests (Hudson Bay)
Relatively Flat (not completely flat)
- In the interior plains it’s a gently rolling landscape
- Niagara Falls
Very Fertile
-Lots of minerals in the soil, lots of rain

9. Highlands Appalachian Mountains Innuitian Mountains Western Cordillera
- Differentiated
- Peaked, rounded and rugged mountain ranges