Mixedwood Plains

MIXEDWOOD PLAINS
WHAT IS IT? BY COURTNEY
• The Mixedwood Plains is located in the southern most region of
Canada. The plains include magnificent places such as Toronto,
Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City. These are all well known
developed cities and are an amazing place to visit or live in. The
maritime climate of the Mixedwood Plains permits for "...moderate to
relatively high precipitation. The mild climate allows for relatively long,
warm summers and cool winters," which results in long growing
seasons.
WHAT IS IT 2
• The landform of the Mixedwood Plains has been shaped by
glaciations during the Ice Age, which tremendously affected the
outcome topography of the landform. The Mixedwood Plains wide
diversity in wildlife is one of the most outstanding features of the entire
ecozone; there are animals from the Red Headed Woodpecker to the
White Tailed Deer within the ecozone.
WHAT IS IT 3
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Most of these animals inhabit the protected greenbelt within the
Mixedwood Plains region. The vegetation of the Plains is well known
for their wide assortment of trees. There are a range of tree types
within this region such as; the Red Pine, Sugar Maple, Basswood,
Red Oak and Eastern Hemlock.
WHAT IS IT 4
• The Mixedwood Plains will provide the entire family with fun and
exciting activities to do, such as, site-seeing, fishing, amusement
parks and numerous other activities, which will help you say active
and outdoors. Most of the activities consist of going outdoors and
exploring the land.
WHAT IS IT 5
• If you are one of the people who like to kick it back and relax on
vacations you can visit a nearby spa or salon, or you can walk along
the shoreline of Lake Ontario, in your bare feet and watch the sun go
down. Sounds relaxing and adventurous doesn’t it!
NATURAL VEGETATION IN THE ECOZONE BY
MASON
• Most of the forest that were there are now gone, they got cut down for urban
development. There still are some heavily forested areas that remain along
lakeshores. Before the development the area there were thick green forests
which includes white pines, red pine, hemlock, black spruce, eastern red
cedar as well as a abundance of deciduous trees like sugar maple, red oak,
and white elm.
NATURAL VEGETATION 2
• The mixed wood Ecozone is near large bodies of water- the Great
Lakes. Warm air coming form the Gulf of Mexico creates a relatively
mild atmosphere for the plants. The soil in the mixed wood plains is
extremely fertile and productive. Conditions vary in different places in
the mixed wood plain but these varying conditions also create diversity
in these Canadian plants.
NATURAL VEGETATION 3
• Some other trees in this Ecozone is walnut, butternut, eastern
cottonwood, balsam popular, basswood, black ash and blue ash.
Finally, some types of tulip trees, sycamore, shagbark hickory,
bitternut hickory, red mulberry and the Kentucky coffee-tree could only
be found in southern regions where the weather is warmer.
NATURAL VEGETATION 4
• Apart from the trees, there are also several types of fauna and
wildflowers in the Mixedwood plains. The remaining wetlands in the
Mixedwood plains are home to several types of exotic plants. Clovers,
golden rod’s, and wild raspberry are some common wild flowers found
in the Mixedwood plains.
WILDLIFE BY PATRICK
• A large amount of animals are found in the Mixedwood plains. Wildlife
can be from chipmunks, squirrels and raccoons and even to black
bears. Deer's can also be found in the wild. There’s more than
hundreds of species of birds, fish, reptiles, and mammals that can be
found in the Mixedwood plains.
WILDLIFE 2
• The fish was one of the mean reasons that lured our Canadian
ancestors into the Mixedwood plains region. The great lakes and other
separate rivers witch provided water transportation. The lakes had
many fish like the lake trout. The whitefish, and the sturgeon live on
the bottom of the lake. If you over fish in these lakes you could
damage number of fish and the different types of fish in this lake.
WILDLIFE 3
• There are a few species of birds in Canada. Most of them you can see
in your backyard but some birds are very rare. The birds of prey like
the Red-shoulder hawk, screech owl, and the copper’s hawk, do not
like the city environment. That’s why not very many of them are found
in Canada. The Canada goose, several types of herons, ducks, and
the mallard are some of the species of waterfowl. That is types of
birds that live in water. These birds live in the wetlands of Mixedwoods
plains.
PEOPLE LIVING IN THE ECOZONE BY RAEL
• Native communities, including the Mohawk, Algonquian, Iroquoian,
and Cree, inhabited the favoured Mixedwood Plains long before
European settlement. The earliest French arrivals, also recognizing
the St. Lawrence River's many advantages, established themselves
along the shoreline at Quebec City in 1608, Trois-Rivières in 1634,
and Montreal in 1642. British settlers founded the towns of Niagara,
Hamilton, and Toronto in Upper Canada during the mid-18th century.
PEOPLE PRESENT 2
• 100 000 people are located here. Population density is over 100
persons per square kilometer — 10 times higher than anywhere else
in Canada. Ontario’s population accounts for 38 percent of the
Canadian total. More than 93 percent of the province’s 12 million
people live in the Mixedwood Plains. Quebec has 24 percent of
Canada’s population. About 80 percent of the province’s population is
concentrated in three centres: Montréal, Québec, and Trois-Rivières,
all of which lie in the Mixedwood Plains.
PEOPLE PRESENT 3
• Most human activities in the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone, both past
and present, are associated with urbanization. Containing 52% of
Canada's 1991 population, it is the most densely populated ecozone
in the country. Of the nation's 25 largest cities, 13 fall within the
ecozone. The largest -- Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec City -are connected by extensive networks of expressways..
PEOPLE PRESENT 4
• Between 1966 and 1991, Toronto's population grew by 80%, and the
Toronto metropolitan area now houses 14% of all Canadians,
compared with 11.5% living in the Montreal area.
• Even though 85% of residents live in urban areas, settlement patterns
have changed from the traditional compact, centralized city to new
suburbs spreading into surrounding countryside.
PEOPLE PRESENT 5
• Smaller cities are no exception. Kitchener-Waterloo, for example, grew
by 57% between 1971 and 1991. Several outlying municipalities north
and east of Montreal, such as St-Lazare and Blainville, also grew by
over 40% from 1986 to 1991. Home to 11 million people in 1971, the
entire ecozone supported 14 million just two decades later.
HUMAN SYSTEMS PRESENT BY REGINA AND
HOLLY
• The Mixedwood plains ecozone is one of the most productive ecozone
in Canada. Rapid urbanization made the vast forests that once used
to be thriving in the Mixedwood plains, into residential, commercial
and industrial regions for humans to live on.
• Some of the human systems are Cityscape, Power Station , Tourism,
Shipping ,Forestry ,Farming ,Transportation ,Orchard, Vineyard.
HUMAN SYSTEMS PRESENT 2
• Primary, secondary, and tertiary industries are thriving in the
Mixedwood plains. The Mixedwood plains ecozone offers great land
for agriculture. Much of the land is more than suitable for growing.
Areas near the Niagara Fall provide the best land for growing fruit.
• The area is also rich in Manufacturing industry such as car factories,
power plants and food production.
HUMAN SYSTEMS: TOURISM
• Tourism and recreation continue to strengthen the Mixedwood Plains'
economy. The spectacular Niagara Falls, CN Tower in Toronto, and
the historic cities of Montreal and Quebec are a few of the many
popular tourist attractions. Numerous northern communities, once
heavily dependent on logging and mining, have turned to tourism for
additional sources of revenue.
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Cottage development along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence shorelines has intensified
as urban residents spend more of their leisure time beyond city limits. Marinas, resorts,
and restaurants are now common sites in the countryside
TOURISM 2
• The Mixedwood Plains ecozone is the most popular for tourism,
especially in the summer months. People from all over Canada come
to these cities to enjoy the restaurants, sports teams, theatre, shows,
hotels, shopping, the CN Tower, Niagara Falls, canoeing and hiking.
Also, in the winter time, many tourists come to this ecozone to do
winter sports such as skiing and snowboarding.
HUMAN SYSTEMS: AGRICULTURE AND
FORESTRY
• The ecozone provides 34% of Canada's resource-based employment,
and half of that number work in the agriculture and food industry. The
ecozone's service industry, constituting a third of the labor force, is
immensely important to national and international trade and
commerce.
• Oil refineries, power-line corridors and industrial parks dotting vast
tracts of the landscape are evidence of the ecozone's dominant
service and manufacturing industries.
HUMAN SYSTEMS: ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS
• The Niagara Peninsula, famous for its fruit orchards and vineyards, is
the warmest and most intensively cultivated part of the ecozone. Corn,
soybeans, and specialty crops such as tobacco and vegetables are
concentrated in southern regions enjoying 2 000 to 2 500 growing
degree days.
• The cultivation of mixed grains also enhances hog, dairy, and beef
livestock production throughout the ecozone. Today, urban expansion
is the primary reason for loss of prime agricultural land.
HUMAN SYSTEMS: TRANSPORTATION
• Interlaced with national and international transportation routes, the
Mixedwood Plains have become the industrial and commercial
heartland of Canada. The flat land of the Mixedwood Plains is
excellent for large transportation routes like QEW that links Buffalo,
New York and the Niagara Peninsula with Toronto, Ontario Highway
401 which is the backbone of Quebec City-Winsor Corridor, and the
407 Express Toll Route which is a privately operated 400-series
Highway and tollway in Ontario.
TRANSPORTATION 2
• No other region in Canada can match southern Ontario’s advantages
favourable to industry: a large labour force and consumer market,
proximity to the United States, abundant supplies of raw materials and
energy, and superior rail, road, and water transportation links. Toronto,
with its many investment and insurance companies, and its bank and
corporate head offices, is the city with the most diversified industrial
base.
HUMAN SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGY
• Southern Quebec boasts a strong, diversified industrial base, with
Montréal dominating high-technology fields such as aerospace,
biotechnology, fiber optics, and computers. Quebec’s industries also
excel in clothing design and manufacturing, metal refining, printing,
textiles, and transport equipment.
THE THREATS BY MATTHEW BREEN
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1. logging land clearing for farming not much forest left
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They are trying to maintain biodiversity and long term ecosystems by a gradual
replacement of broad leaf ecosystems by Mixedwood then soft wood species
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2. 90% of wetlands cleared
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They are making conservation agreement with the government to make more protected
areas for halenitats. For example to restore wetland to condition that better supports
wildlife like birds they are encouraging farmers to plant winter wheat crop to help feed
nesting birds in winter.
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3. more land cleared as cities grow
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They are doing more urban forestry this is where they tree in and around cities this
includes parks and in people gardens, they want people to plant many types of trees so
this help make habitats for different animals.