1. The Canadian Shield Chris Torrie, Nolan Young and Colin Wong

2. Landscape -8 million square kilometers -Largest Continental shield in Canada hi chloe -A large variation of environments -goes from the usa to canada and greenland

3. Landscape continued -Large amounts of smooth rock -Most of the old mountain ranges are run down by glaciers -Most of the mantle was carried away by the glaciers -Ice smoothed hills Hi lucia

4. Natural Resources The canadian shield holds some of the most historic rocks in North America

5. Minerals - Rich in many resources - Contains large amounts of gold, copper and iron

6. Rocks -Mostly igneous and metamorphic -Igneous - granite, basalt -Metamorphic - schists, marble

7. Trees Eastern Canadian Shield taiga Midwestern Canadian Shield Forests

8. Fish

9. Climate ●Many different regions ●Many different Climates

10. Canadian shield subdivisions North: hudsons bay Quebec Ontario/Manitoba

11. The North ●Very cold ●Not lots of precipitation ●A polar desert

12. Quebec ●-5 to -15 Winter ●20 to 30 in Summer ●900 mm of rain annually

13. Ontario/Manitoba ●Summer: 25-15 ●winter: -5 - -15 ●Precipitation: 750-1000mm

14. Major Cities Sudbury Ottawa Montreal Quebec Iqaluit Thunder Bay Winnipeg

15. References 1. The canadan shild climate, blogspot http://thecoolcanadianshield.blogspot.ca/2010/05/climate.html http://thecoolcanadianshield.blogspot.ca/2010/05/climate.html 2. nunavut tourism, environment Canada, http://www.nunavuttourism.com/about-nunavut/weather-climate http://www.nunavuttourism.com/about-nunavut/weather-climate 3. Canadian Shield, Nature Conservancy Canada http://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/where-we-work/ontario/our- work/canadian-shield.htmlhttp://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/where-we-work/ontario/our- work/canadian-shield.html 4. Origin of the great lakes by Diastrophic process http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/gtl-shield.htmlhttp://www.sentex.net/~tcc/gtl-shield.html Encyclopedia Britannica, Canadian Shield http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/91992/Canadian-Shieldhttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/91992/Canadian-Shield 5. Canadian Shield, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shieldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield 6. Boreal shield http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/ecozones/borealshield/borealshield.htmhttp://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/ecozones/borealshield/borealshield.htm 7. quebec, Quebec portal, http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/portrait/geographie/climat/?lang=enhttp://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/portrait/geographie/climat/?lang=en 8. Quebec original, Quebec from the ground up, http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/portrait/geographie/climat/?lang=en http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/portrait/geographie/climat/?lang=en 9. ontario, wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario#Climatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario#Climate 10. http://www.answers.com/Q/Vegetation_on_the_Canadian_shield