Geography 2011A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Urban Sprawl, Interior Plains, Canadian Shield
11 Apr 2014
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2 natural regions: canadian shield (laurentian plateau) [high] Interior plains and lowlands [flat: hudson bay plains (interior plains, lowlands (great lakes-st. lawrence) 3 major components: rock, lake, forest: except for forestry, mining, and native canadians, very few people live here, boreal shield (supports boreal forest, mixed wood plain (southern ontario; majority of pop. ) Forested land diminishing due to decades of development. Since the last ice age, the land has become covered with a thick boreal forest of coniferous trees: cleared for agriculture, deciduous trees lose leaves seasonally, mixed forest has both coniferous and deciduous. Hudson bay plains: third largest wetland in the world, very far north, low land with a shallow slope, muskeg and peatlands, rivers all flow north to hudson bay. St. lawrence lowland: rift valley = faults or crack in the earth"s crust split the valley, which was then part of the canadian shield.
