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LANDFORM
REGIONS OF
CANADA
We know how mountains are formed and how
the movement of the earth’s plates can greatly
affect us, now lets see what type of landforms we
have in Canada.
WHAT ARE THE 8 LANDFORM REGIONS?
Landform Region
Physical Characteristics
1. Western Cordillera
Mountains and Volcanoes
2. Interior Plains
Flat Landscape
3. Innuitian Mountains
Cold Lower peaked mountains
4. Arctic Lowlands
Tundra (treeless plains- so cold not
much vegetation grows here.
5. Hudson Bay Lowlands
Tundra and permafrost
6. Great Lakes- St Lawrence lowlands
Escarpment (a steep slope)
7. Appalachians
Older worn down mountains
8. Canadian Shield
Mineral Deposits
WESTERN CORDILLERA
INTERIOR PLAINS
INNUITIAN MOUNTAINS
ARCTIC LOWLANDS
HUDSON BAY LOWLANDS
GREAT LAKES- ST. LAWRENCE
LOWLANDS
APPALACHIANS
CANADIAN SHIELD
WHAT CHARACTERISTICS DO THESE
REGIONS HAVE?
Landform Region
Characteristics
1. Western Cordillera
Rainforest, Tourism
2. Interior Plains
Farming, Wheat fields
3. Innuitian Mountains
Glaciers, Highlands
4. Arctic Lowlands
North of treeline, permafrost
5. Hudson Bay Lowlands
Wetlands, Muskeg
6. Great Lakes- St Lawrence lowlands
Industrial heartland, Agriculture
7. Appalachians
Grand Banks, lowlands
8. Canadian Shield
Mining of copper and nickel
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CHECK IT OVER: FOUR ERAS OF
GEOLOGIC TIME ARE...
SHAPING THE LAND THE WORK OF
WATER
Water also has the ability to change the land and move
rock and land debris.
 Water wears away rock and minerals. This process is
called weathering. Weathering breaks rocks into pieces
in two ways:

 1.
Mechanically: when water fills cracks, freezes then
expands and puts pressure on the rocks
 2.
Chemically: when water dissolves some of the chemicals
found in rock.
EROSION

When moving water, ice or wind carries away these
small weathered pieces of rock, it is called erosion.

Erosion involves movement, while weathering does not.