Canadian+Shield+No.+2

=﻿**CANADIAN SHIELD NO.2** = //Jacklyn, Elizabeth, & Chris.// //Social Studies 9// //Block B//

The Canadian Shield or Laurentian Plateau makes up more than half of Canada and stretches from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean. The Canadian Shield covers 8,000,000 km2 of land. [ Labrador, most of Quebec north of the St. Lawrence River, much of Ontario, central/northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan, a small part of north/eastern Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, most of Greenland, and part of the northern United States (Wisconsin, Michigan, eastern Minnesota )]



Topography
The Canadian Shield is the oldest area of North America's crustal plate and has fossils of bacteria and elgea over 2 billion years old. It was also the first part of North America to be permanently elevated above sea level ( now, is a plateau ranging from 305 - 610 meters above sea level and in Labrador and Baffin Island is over 1500 meters) and is the Earth's greatest area of exposed Precambrian rock, which is made up of igneous and metamorphic rock that is 500 million years old. 1.6 million to 10 000 years ago this area was subject to rising and falling, folding and the reoccuring advance and retreat of ice sheets which happened to have caused a depression around the shield creating the Hudson Bay area and the carving of many lakes. The general terrain is hilly and ruggedThere are also a lot of mountain ranges here: the Adirondack (northeastern New York state), Superior Highlands (northern Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan states), Torngat and Laurentian.



Vegetation
As for trees, the Canadian Shield is mostly coniferous forests. In the south, the trees are denser and as you move up north, they become more spread until you reach the tundra area with little forest. - Birch trees - Aspen trees - Tamarack trees - Black and White Spruce trees - Willow trees - Hemlock trees - Pine trees - Balsam trees - Fir tree

** CLIMATE: ** Southern Area… Climate is seasonal, the average temperature in the winter is -4 degrees F (-18 degrees C). The average temperature in the summer is 77 degrees F (25degrees C). Summer daylight average is around 15 hours, whereas the winter daylight average is about 8.5 hours. Northern Area… Climate is very cold. The average temperature range is from 59 degrees F (15 degrees C) in the summer. And the average temperature in the winter Is -31 degrees F (-35 degrees C). Winter daylight average is about 5.5 hours, whereas the summer daylight average is around 18.5 hours



**Resources**
The resoures in the canadian shield area is lumber, mineral ores animals and more. The minerals in the canadian shield are nickel gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, uranium, platinum, and molybdenum. In the northern part of the canadian shield they found diamonds. There are a lot of minning towns in the canadian shield. One of the most known place is in Sudbury Ontario. The lumber industry. The canadian shield has a lot of boreal forest.



Important Cities:
Sudbury, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Iqaluit, Thunder Bay, and Winnipeg. ( Toronto is not a part of the Canadian Shield, it is part of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowlands region. )







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Things to do

 * visit smoking hills
 * wiberforce falls



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