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Social Studies 10 Initial Assignment: Welcome!

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Social Studies 10 Initial Assignment:

Introduction to Social Studies 10 Student Responsibilities:

• To complete all assignments to the best of their ability (partially completed assignments will not be accepted)

• To complete assignments in the order in which they are assigned, unless given written instruction otherwise

• To review the feedback given on assessed assignments and complete corrections as required • To maintain regular contact with teachers • To work within mutually agreed upon timeframes • To ask for help and clarification when needed

Social Studies 10 Curriculum Social Studies 10 is a course that is required for graduation in British Columbia. There is not a provincial exam for this course. A complete list of prescribed learning outcomes for

this course can be found at the Ministry of BC website: Social Studies 10 Learning Outcomes Social Studies 10 is divided into units of study as follows: The Environment The Prairies Canada 1814-1840 British Columbia Confederation (Building a Nation) The Emergence of Modern Canada The Northwest The Economy of Canada Research Project Each unit will contain a variety of assignment structures, from projects, tests, quizzes, short answer, multiple choice, as well as opportunities for student choice. You will be assigned a textbook once the Environment Unit is complete and fully meets the learning outcomes.

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Social Studies 10 Initial Assignment:

Canadian Identity and Stereotypes

You can print out this assignment and write your answers on the sheet, or you can type your answers on a Word document. If you type your answers, be mindful to watch the formatting. Save your work as a .doc or .pdf document. If you do not have Microsoft Word, Libre Office and Open Office are free downloads available online.

1. What does being Canadian mean to you? Take a moment to think about it.

2. What stereotypes are there about Canadians?

Look at this graphic:

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3. What stereotypes do you see?

Now watch the following YouTube clips:

Molson Canadian’s “I am Canadian”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg

Molson Canadian’s “I am Canadian” #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gEZF_qts3k

Shane Koyczan‘s “We Are More”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsq68qRexFc

What did he just say? If Shane’s Koyczan’s poem went too fast for you, you can read it here:

http://vancouverisawesome.com/2010/02/12/shane-koyczans-we-are-more/

Did you like that slam poetry? Click here to read more about the poet and the attention he received after reading his poem during the 2010 Olympic Opening Ceremonies.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2010/02/14/koyczan-poet-olympics.html

Interesting fact: Shane became a poet after he was bullied at age 14 and had trouble communicating!

Games about Canadian Stereotypes:

How well do you know Canadian stereotypes? Click here to see:

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz862069e0e18.html

4. Canadian Identity Assignment:

By watching the clips you learned about some Canadian stereotypes. Take a moment to think about what being Canadian means to you.

You have a choice in this assignment to either work with Canadian stereotypes, or with what being Canadian means to you. Choose one of those topics.

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Show me what the topic means to you. This can be done by a virtual poster board (see Glogster example www.glogster.com), a PowerPoint, a piece of writing, or something more creative: a poem (like Shane Koyczan), a song... almost anything that will show me how you feel. What you do must be in digital format, though.

Assignments will be graded on presentation, content, and technical aspects, such as grammar and sentence structure. The Glogster example (below) would receive a passing grade (50-60%) but it is missing explanations and more graphics that would warrant a better grade.

If you have any questions, contact the instructor.

This assignment will be digital. It will be emailed to the instructor.

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Social Studies 10 Initial Assignment:

Canadian Population, Density and Distribution

This section answers the questions:

How many Canadians are there?

Where do we live?

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Why did we pick there?

So exciting!

Internet Resource: Atlas of Canada Website: www.atlas.gc.ca

Two terms you must understand are population density and population distribution. What these terms represent affected the way Canada developed, as well as affects the rest of the globe. These terms are closely linked.

Population distribution refers to how people are spaced out throughout a given area. In the map below, the red (darker) areas show concentrations of people throughout the globe.

Population Density describes the number of people in a given area. Clearly, there is a greater density of persons in India, China and Europe than there is in Canada. In Hong Kong, they have approximately 6 000 people living in each square kilometer. In comparison, Canada has about 3 people per square kilometer if you average out the whole country. Canadians have a lot of extra space!!

Different factors affect population density. They can be characterized as Physical and Human factors.

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Human factors contributing to how many people want to live in a certain area are:

• Communication (would you want to live somewhere with no phone or TV?) • Culture (do you want to live somewhere without a personality?) • Development (roads would be nice! Schools, stores, etc..) • Disease (no one is moving to places overrun with germs) • Government Policies (move somewhere with lower taxes?)

Physical Factors also contribute to why people settle in a certain area:

• Accessibility (if you can't get there, you can't live there) • Climate (why people don't like living in the Arctic) • Landscape (people settle in "prettier" areas) • Resources (fresh water nearby, not just desert) • Soils (because you want to grow food) • Vegetation/Water (so you can stay healthy!)

When Canada was a new country, physical factors affected how our country was settled: Vancouver and Victoria were settled in BC early because of water access. There is still less population in Northern BC because it is less accessible.

Now, consider a long time ago, when Europeans were new to Canada and began to settle in our country. They had many options where they could settle. How did they decide??

When Europeans began exploring and developing resources in what is not Canada, they found the land sparsely populated by many different First Nations peoples in the south and Inuit in the north. The native peoples were primarily hunters and gatherers and often were nomadic. Because they were few in number, the First Nations made little impact on the natural environment; they harvested only the resources needed for their own consumption, and there were no large settlements. Even though the First Nations had lived in the area for thousands of years, the Europeans thought that they had found a pristine country with rich resources that awaited exploitation.

Different groups of Europeans came at different times to develop and export the abundant fish, furs, forests, and minerals. With the development of each new resource, new settlements were established. Most of the settlements based on these resources remained small, however, and some of them disappeared when their resources were depleted. A few port cities-including the eastern cities of St. John's, Newfoundland; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Saint John, New Brunswick-continued to grow as they benefited from the export of resources. Montreal owed its early growth to the fur trade, but later it became an important area for exporting a succession of raw and processed materials and importing manufactured goods from Europe. Later Toronto and the west-coast city of Vancouver also grew quickly because of warehouse like activities. Winnipeg, Manitoba, owed its early growth to its gateway role in the agricultural development of the interior plains.

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Except for the port cities, Canada's most densely settled areas and largest cities developed in the areas with good agricultural land. Some nine-tenths of the population lives within a narrow strip of land along the U.S.-Canadian border-an area that constitutes only about one-tenth of Canada's total land area. Intensive commercial agriculture in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence lowlands gave rise to a dense network of villages, towns, and cities. Later, manufacturing and service industries reinforced population growth in this region, making it Canada's urban, industrial, and financial heartland. Villages, towns, and cities also evolved from the agricultural pursuits in the western grasslands, but, because the manufacturing and service sectors did not grow, those areas were much less intensively urbanized. The development of the petroleum industry there, however, did stimulate the growth of two large cities, Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta.

At the beginning of the 20th century, about one-third of Canadians lived in urban areas, but by the end of the century four-fifths of the population lived in communities of more than 10,000 people and nearly three-fifths resided in metropolitan areas of 100,000 or more.

The growth of most of Canada's large cities on good farmland, characterized by a low-density pattern of urban sprawl, has aroused considerable public concern about reducing Canada's limited agricultural land resources. In the Niagara Peninsula of southwestern Ontario, the area with the best climate in Canada for producing soft fruits and grapes, urbanization has destroyed some one-third of the fruit land. To prevent further reduction, the Ontario Municipal Board in the 1980s delineated permanent urban boundaries and ordered that urban growth be directed away from fruit-growing areas.

Settlement did not proceed sequentially westward from an Atlantic beginning. Permanent settlement depended on agricultural land-which in Canada occurs in patches, separated by physical barriers. Different patches were settled by people from various European countries, so that a diversity of cultures and settlement patterns developed across the country.

In the Appalachian region, farms are spaced along the roads at irregular intervals wherever land can be cultivated. In Quebec the first settlers laid off long, narrow strips from the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence or the St. Lawrence River into the interior. As settlement moved farther inland, roads were built parallel to the waterways, from which further narrow lots extended on either side. The same pattern occurred in the Red River valley of Manitoba and even parts of Ontario, where the early settlers were also French.

In most of Ontario and the eastern townships of Quebec, land subdivision was made according to British and American surveying practices. The townships were more or less square, but the grid became irregular because it was started from a number of different points, each of which used a differently oriented base. In the Prairies, on the interior plains, the grid is much more regular, partly as a result of the topography and partly because a plan for the subdivision of the whole region was laid out before it was settled, and based rigidly on lines of latitude and longitude.

Settlement patterns in mountainous British Columbia were greatly influenced by water access routes.

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Use this link to help you answer the questions in this assignment. You will need to click on "Population and Dwelling Counts" -> "Canada, Provinces and Territories" and "Show land area and population density counts for this table" on that page as well as "Highlight tables" to find all the answers for this assignment.

2001 Census: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Standard/Index.cfm

Begin this assignment after you have read, and understand the readings for this section. You will need to have the "2001 Census" information open to complete this assignment.

This assignment may be saved and resumed later, but make sure you are saving each answer as you go.

5.

Question Answer

Total Population in Canada

Most populated province

Most Densely Populated Province

Least Populated Province

Least Populated Territory

Total Aboriginal Population

Number of Canadians with English as a First Language

Number of foreign-born Canadians

Median (Average) Age of the Population in 2001

Median (Average) Age of the Population in 1996

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6. For the following factors, identify whether they are human or physical. Write the word "human" or "physical" in the correct space(s).

Note: try to think of the answers before checking the information!!

Accessibility ________________

Communication ________________

Culture ________________

Development ________________

Disease ________________

Government Policies ________________

Landscape ________________

Resources ________________

Soils ________________

Vegetation/Water ________________

7. When Canada was being explored and settled by Europeans, what type of factors affected settlement patterns the most? (human or physical – circle one)

8. What did/do port cities such as St John’s, Halifax, and Saint John benefit from?

9. What is a contributing factor in the development on Montreal?

10. What does Winnipeg owe its early growth to?

11. Where are Canada’s most densely settled areas and largest cities?

12. What natural resource contributed to growth in Alberta?

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Social Studies 10 Initial Assignment:

Canada’s Physiographical Regions Sure, you can divide Canada into Provinces. But nature already divided Canada into some other regions...

Canada (and the rest of the world, for that matter!) has political borders, which were decided by humans.

But, the world also has distinct physiographical regions – regions that are similar not because all the people are “Canadian” but similar because of climate, landscape and geographical features.

(source: http://www.bestlibrary.org/.a/6a00d8341c650653ef0162fcb245f0970d-pi)

Throughout much of its history, Canada was a cold and inhospitable place, buried under a vast sheet of glacial ice. The last Ice Age reached its maximum extent about twenty thousand years ago. As the ice moved and melted, it created many of the geographical features we associate with present-day Canada.

There are eight major physiographic regions – areas with similar landforms – in Canada, and there are several smaller ones. The typology developed by Statistics Canada and Environment Canada in the 1980s suggests no fewer than fifteen “ecozones” – regions distinguished by similar landforms, climate and vegetation. There are also eight distinct forest regions, although the boreal (northern) forest region dominated by black and white spruce accounts for the greater part of Canada’s wooded areas. East to west, the key physiographic regions are the Appalachain region, the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Hudson Bay Lowlands (missing from the above graphic), the Interior Plains, the Western Cordilleran, the Innuitian Region and Arctic Lowlands (combined into the Arctic Region).

The next readings will give greater detail about these regions. Be sure to look at the small map in the upper left corner to see the region you are reading about.

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Cordillera Region

The Cordillera Region includes British Columbia, the Yukon, and parts of Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The Pacific Ocean, along the western coast of this region, bathes the area in warm moist air. Great mountains, 600 million to 300 million years old, soar out of this region to the east. The physical make up of this area has an extreme effect on the climate: rain on the coast and snow in the mountains are some extremes.

These great mountains were a barrier to contact among aboriginal nations and later, European settlers.

Lying between these mountain chains are a series of plateaus and valleys. Plateaus are uplands areas of relatively flat land, while valleys are troughs cut by rivers or glaciers. These valleys and their rivers were important transportation routes for the Native peoples of this region. The rain fed rivers that flow from the Coast Mountains to the Western Mountains to the Pacific Ocean are home to several species of salmon and sea-run trout. Once present in unaccountable millions, these fish were the major source of food for a large Native population when this region was first visited by European explorers. Salmon remains a valuable resource in this region.

The temperate climate on the coast and in the southern interior of the Cordillera provided a marked contrast with the climate of the Interior Plains and especially the North. The rain falling along the coast nourishes great forests of coniferous trees. Towering Douglas firs, red cedars, spruce and hemlock once crowded the mountain slopes in vast forest stands running right to the ocean’s edge. These forests and coastal margins were home to a wide variety of land and sea animals, including deer, elk and mountain goat; as well as, beaver, marten sea otters and seals. The mountain pine beetle has destroyed large tracts of these forests and now threatens the boreal forests of northern Canada.

The Cordillera Region is best known for its forestry. Softwood from the many coniferous trees is used to make pulp and paper products. The thickest forests are used to make paper, plywood, furniture and cardboard. Because forests can be re-grown it is known as a renewable resource.

Vancouver Island’s west coast has the oldest and tallest trees in Canada. Western Cedar trees 1,300 years old can be found here! The oldest tree, a Sitka, is found here and it is 95 meters tall! That is taller than any building in Victoria and as tall as the Statue of Liberty! It is called the Carmanah Giant.

The Statue of Liberty, New York Carmanah Giant on Vancouver Island

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Interior Plains Region

Did you know thick sheets of ice known as glaciers once covered the Interior Plains? The Interior Plains (usually called The Prairies) region covers parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The pressure from the glaciers compacted the land, making it flat with rolling hills. When the glaciers melted, they left behind silt (a type of gravel), gravel and sand.

Good to excellent soil for farming marks a large portion of the Interior Plains. One third of Saskatchewan, for example, consists of quality farmland, but climatic conditions limit yields from this land. Winters are harsh, the growing seasons are short and uncertain, and southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta have limited rainfall. Beneath the surface of the Prairies lie vast reserves of coal, oil and natural gas. Sometimes the Interior Plains are without water or snow for long periods of time. This is called a drought.

The first nations of the region rarely farmed because the abundant game and vegetation made a sedentary farming life unnecessary for the relatively small, dispersed populations. In particular, the

bison was a very valuable resource to the Native peoples of the Prairies. Three centuries ago, the nearly 2 million km2 of rolling hills and grasslands that make up the Prairies were

home to millions of these large, brown shaggy beasts. Today, the bison are all but gone, the great expanses of prairie grass that once covered the Great Plains is almost completely gone. In order to farm the region it had to be stripped of its vegetation so the soil beneath could be ploughed and planted with crops such as wheat.

The southern part of the Interior Plains region is known as the “bread basket” of Canada. It is the largest farmland found in Canada.

Other natural resources in this region are oil and gas.

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Canadian Shield Region

The Canadian Shield is shaped like a huge saucer. It is the largest geographical region in Canada, and covers half the land. It covers parts of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Northwest Territories and Nunavut. A small portion even extends to the Arctic Lowlands!

The Canadian Shield was created when the glaciers melted and moulded rocky hills and gravel from the debris it dragged along in the ice.

With its terrain mostly covered by Precambrian rock, this region has proven inhospitable to aspiring farmers. Although its hills are interspersed with areas where the land, soil and drainage do seem to offer good farming possibilities, the cool summers and limited number of frost free days restrict agricultural development. There is lots of wildlife in this area. This is the best area to find fur-bearing animals such as beaver, fox, mink, muskrat and lynx. Moose, caribou and deer are plentiful along with freshwater fish.

The rivers in this region flow towards the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, or the St. Lawrence River. Sandwiched between the rocky hills and the flowing rivers are marshy wetlands that are called muskeg. Muskeg is formed when vegetation both living and dead fills in the rivers and lakes.

The climate in this region varies. In the northern area, winters are colder and have less rainfall than the southern area. The southern areas of the Canadian Shield have cold and snowy winters. Summers in the southern Canadian Shield are hot, rainy and humid.

But I don’t want to be a hat!!

The Canadian Shield is rich with natural resources. Minerals such as copper, nickel, iron, silver, gold, lead, uranium, zinc and diamonds are found in this area, making mining one of the most important industries.

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Hudson Bay Lowlands Region

The Hudson Bay Lowlands area is the flattest part of Canada. The region is along the southern part of Hudson Bay in Ontario and Manitoba. This area was created when the Ice Age Glaciers retreated. The land rose, but because it is so near the sea, it remained marshy and wet.

As snow and ice melts in the Interior Plains and the Canadian Shield, the water flows onto the Hudson Bay Lowlands causing flooding. In summer the top area of the land melts, but

underneath it remains frozen. This is called permafrost. Permafrost is the reason the water does not drain from the land. This makes water the most controlling environmental factor. In summer, walking is torture. Possibly nowhere else on earth are biting and sucking insects more abundant.

Muskeg is formed when dead, living, and decaying plants fill in around the lakes. Up to 86% of the Hudson Bay Lowlands is muskeg.

Vegetation in this area is similar to that of the Canadian Shield. There are forests of spruce, balsam, poplar, aspen and birch. The northern part of this region is tundra. Tundra is a large area of treeless plains with a few shrubs and small plants.

There is lots of wildlife in this region. Polar bears, caribou, Arctic fox, lemming, weasel, Arctic hare, walrus, seals and beluga whales are a few of the species of animals in this region.

This is a sparsely populated region. There are a few small First Nations settlements on the southern shore of Hudson Bay. More recently, human intervention has changed the face of the landscape. The massive James Bay hydro-electric project, for instance, created a spillway three times higher than Niagara Falls and flooded 10 500 square kilometers of land, equivalent in size to all of Northern Ireland.

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St. Lawrence Lowlands Region

The smallest physical region in Canada is the St. Lawrence Lowlands. This region covers the area from Georgian Bay in the north, to the shores of Lake Eerie in the south. It runs east to Quebec City and includes part of the Ottawa River Valley. It reappears again at Anticosti Island and the southern part of Quebec and Labrador.

In parts of this region, it is as if the land was pushed down to form a flat plain with steep sides. These long rocky cliffs are called escarpments (right). The plain along this area formed when tiny fragments of dirt carried by rivers settled. We call these

deposits of earth sediment. Sediment is rich fertile soil. These deep fertile areas make this region one of the best growing areas in Canada.

During the summer, the climate in this region is hot and humid. The areas nearest the Great Lakes have one of the longest seasons in Canada.

Wildlife in this region is varied. White-tailed deer, moose, coyotes, wolves and snowshoe hares are common. Migrating birds often find this area a good place to rest.

Farming is one natural resource in this area. The areas are fertile and produce many fruit and vegetables.

The waterways of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes make the largest water transportation system in the country. The fresh water from these areas supply many Canadians with water for drinking, cleaning, agriculture, manufacturing, electricity, as well as recreational activities.

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Appalachian Region

The Appalachian Region includes the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and a part of Quebec. This region is part of an ancient mountain range that has been eroded over many years. The area is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean where swift ocean currents created beaches and cliffs.

The climate in this region is harsh and changes quite a bit. This is because of the ocean currents that bring different air masses. Summers may be cool, warm or rainy. The only fertile soil in this region is in Prince Edward Island.

As the ancient mountain range slopes towards the ocean, it creates an area known as the continental shelf. Off the coast of Newfoundland, shallow parts of this shelf are called the Grand Banks. The Grand Banks is famous for fishing, and fishing is one of the natural resources of the Appalachian Region.

Grey seals, harbour seals, cod, salmon, lobster, scallops, clams, oysters, haddock, flounder and halibut are all found in this region, but in recent years the fishing industry has been on the decline. The Canadian Government has tried to protect this industry by preventing other countries from fishing within 200 nautical miles from the Canadian shore.

Coal mining is another natural resource in the Appalachian region that has also been on the decline.

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Arctic Lowlands/Innutian Region

The Arctic Lowlands (sometimes called Innuitian region) is frozen all year long! Brrr!! This is called permafrost when only the very top or surface of the land thaws.

The Arctic Lowlands is a set of islands and parts of the north shore of Canada. The region is boggy with large rocky areas. Most of the Arctic Lowlands lies in Nunavut, but small portions of the north shores of Yukon and Northwest Territories are

included.

In the middle of the summer, the sun never sets in the Arctic. It does not get hot though, which daily temperatures about 15 degrees Celsius. In the winter, there is no sun! Because it is dark, temperatures can plummet to -45 degrees Celsius. This region gets very little snow or rainfall. It can actually get less than many parts of Canada.

The Northern Lights are an attraction that makes the Arctic Lowlands famous. Energy from the sun causes the particles in the air to dance and create broad bands of coloured lights streaking across the sky.

The Arctic Lowlands is above the treeline, the imaginary line where no trees grow past. The environment is too harsh, and the growing season for vegetation is too short to do well. Mosses, low growing shrubs and small flowering plants blossom during the short summers in this region. The tundra has thin soil, cold temperatures, not much precipitation and permafrost. All these factors affect the growth of plants here.

Only small concentrations of Inuit dispersed throughout the region could be supported without depleting the caribou, moose, fish, waterfowl, and fur-bearing animals that the regional populations depended upon for basic survival. This region is likely to be affected by global warming.

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Fill in the following blanks based on what you read in the previous section.

13. THE CANADIAN SHIELD

FACTS ABOUT THIS REGION

a) This region covers ___________ the land of Canada.

b) The region was created when ______________ melted and moulded _____________________

and gravel from the debris it __________________ in the ice.

c) The rivers in this region flow to the ____________________, ______________________ or the

____________________ River.

d) What are the wetlands in this region called? _____________________.

e) What type of animal is found here? ________________________.

f) Mining of ________________ is the most important natural resource here.

14. THE HUDSON BAY LOWLANDS

FACTS ABOUT THIS REGION

a) This region is in the provinces of ___________________ and ___________________.

b) What causes flooding in this region? _______________________________________

c) __________________________________________________________________________

d) When the top of the land melts, but the bottom stays frozen it is called:

_______________________.

e) What is tundra? _________________________________________________________

f) What percentage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands is Muskeg? ____________.

g) What is the most controlling environmental factor in this region? ____________

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h) Name 4 examples of wildlife in this region: ____________________, _____________,

___________________, _______________________.

i) In this region, vegetation is similar to the ______________________ region.

15. THE St. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS FACTS ABOUT THIS REGION

a) This region is the ________________ physical region in Canada.

b) The rocky cliffs in this region are called __________________________.

c) Sediment is tiny ______________________________ that was carried by _____________.

d) In the summer, the climate is __________ and ________________.

e) Give two examples of the wildlife in this region: _______________, ________________

f) What is one natural resource in this area? ________________________

g) The waterways of the St. Lawrence are the largest ______________________________ in the

country.

h) What are two things fresh water is used for? __________________ and _____________

16. THE APPALACHIAN REGION FACTS ABOUT THIS REGION

a) This region is in the provinces of ___________________ , _____________________,

___________________, ____________________ and parts of __________________.

b) What caused the beaches and cliffs in this region? ________________________

c) What is an important natural resource in this area? ________________________

d) What is the Canadian government trying to do to protect this industry?

______________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

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e) Where is the only fertile soil in this region? _______________________________________

f) What is another natural resource in this area? __________________________________

g) Name three sea animals found in this region: ____________________,

________________________, ______________________.

17. THE ARCTIC LOWLANDS FACTS ABOUT THIS REGION

a) This region is mostly in _______________________.

b) The Arctic Lowlands are _____________________ all year long.

c) In the summer time, the sun ____________________ and during the winter it is _____________

all day and night.

d) Throughout the year, the temperature can very from ________ Celsius to ________.

e) A famous feature of this region is the _________________________.

f) The treeline is _____________________________________________________________.

g) How many trees are in this region? ______________________________________

h) What are four factors that affect the growth of plants here?

a. ________________________________________

b. ________________________________________

c. ________________________________________

d. ________________________________________

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18. THE CORDILLERA

FACTS ABOUT THIS REGION

a) This region covers primarily the Provinces of ______________________, the ____________ and

parts of Alberta.

b) Where is the Pacific Ocean in relation to this region? _____________________

c) The physical characteristics create an ___________________ climate in this region.

d) The Cordillera region is best known for its _________________________.

e) Forestry is considered a ______________________ resource.

f) The oldest tree in Canada is a ______________ spruce and is called the

________________________________.

g) This region is a prime area for fishing __________________________.

h) The Cordillera region is framed by mountains on the _______________.

19. THE INTERIOR PLAINS

FACTS ABOUT THIS REGION

a) This region covers primarily the Provinces of ________________, ________________,

_______________ and the Northwest Territories. (3)

b) Thick sheet of __________ once covered this region because of the _______ age.

c) The land in the Interior Plains region is ___________ with rolling _____________.

d) This area of Canada has the ___________ precipitation in the country.

e) Natural resources in this area are _____________ and ________________.

f) The summers are very __________ and the winters are very _____________.

g) The southern part of the interior plains is known as the ______________________ of Canada.

h) A long period without water or snow is called a ____________________.

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