Geography 2011A/B- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)

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Locate the items on is the list of places (attached) on an outline map (to be provided for download). You need to know where these things are to understand the course material. Ontario lies (predominantly) in 2 types of natural regions: the canadian shield (aka the laurentian plateau) Interior plains and lowlands: hudson bay lowlands (aka interior plains) 90% of ontario land area is made up by the canadian shield and the hudson bay lowlands. < 10% of the ontario population lives in these areas. Canadian shield: (the middle portion of the province) Igneous and metamorphic: 1. 5 - 3. 5 billion years old, high mountains eroded down to rocky ridges, now source of a variety of minerals. Forest: since the last ice age ended -- 15,000 years ago in southern ontario, but only 6,000 years ago in. Ottawa, creating a very flat landscape: geologic activity produced the monteregian hills.

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