1. Making Connections: Canada’s Geography, Second Edition, Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education Canada. Permission to reproduce this image is restricted to purchasing schools. Looking at Canada…

2. Making Connections: Canada’s Geography, Second Edition, Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education Canada. Permission to reproduce this image is restricted to purchasing schools. If you were to describe what Canada looks like, what would you say? Before you answer, consider that all of the following slides show images of Canada.

3. Making Connections: Canada’s Geography, Second Edition, Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education Canada. Permission to reproduce this image is restricted to purchasing schools. Natural Environments

4. Making Connections: Canada’s Geography, Second Edition, Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education Canada. Permission to reproduce this image is restricted to purchasing schools.

10. But Canada does not consist only of natural environments. How have people influenced the environments that are shown on the next few slides?

11. Making Connections: Canada’s Geography, Second Edition, Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education Canada. Permission to reproduce this image is restricted to purchasing schools. Human Environments

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18. How can we understand these widely varying environments? A good way to understand them is by thinking about Canada’s ecozones. Canada has 15 major terrestrial ecozones we will study

19. Making Connections: Canada’s Geography, Second Edition, Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education Canada. Permission to reproduce this image is restricted to purchasing schools. WHAT IS AN ECOZONE? Break it down! Eco (ecological) Zone (region) A multifaceted region of Canada characterized by ecological AND human factors such as: landforms climate soil natural vegetation animal distributions activities of people

20. Making Connections: Canada’s Geography, Second Edition, Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education Canada. Permission to reproduce this image is restricted to purchasing schools. MAP ANALYSIS 1.Take out all of the maps you have made in this unit 2.Analyze the boundaries and predict where you think the ecozone boundaries may be 3.Now look at the ecozone map on page 100-101 and compare your answer.

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22. Our Ecozone What is our landform region? What is our ecozone? The Mixedwood Plains