LANDFORM REGION
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS QUESTIONS
Arctic & Hudson Bay
Lowlands
pg. 105 &109
1) Identify what it looks like
2) Identify the type of rock
3) Identify the era of formation
4) Identify how it was formed
5) Key feature(s)
Arctic Lowlands
1) Series of islands
- gently rolling landscape
2) Sedimentary rock
3) Paleozoic Era
HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS QUESTIONS
1) What can humans use it for?
Arctic Lowlands
1) Lignite (coal), oil, natural gas
Hudson Bay Lowlands
1) Lignite (coal), oil, natural gas
4) Erosion and compression of sediments from the
Canadian Shield
5) Frozen ground
Hudson Bay Lowlands
1) Flat, low area covered by swampy forest
2) Sedimentary rock
3) Paleozoic
4) Erosion and compression of sediments from the
Canadian Shield
Innuitian Mountains
pg. 112
Appalachian Mountains
pg. 111-112
Canadian Shield
pg. 102-104
5) Rests on ancient rock of the Canadian Shield
1) Tall mountains (2500m)
2) Igneous rock, metamorphic rock, sedimentary rock
3) Mesozoic Era
4) North American Plate moved Northward
5) Cold and barren, younger than the Appalachians
1) Rounded mountains (oldest)
2) Sedimentary
3) Paleozoic Era
4) North America collided with Europe and Northern Africa
forming Pangaea
5) Millions of years of erosion and glaciation have worn them
down
1) Rounded hills, small lakes
2) Igneous rock, Metamorphic rock
3) Precambrian Era
4) Magma rising to the surface/glaciation
5) Some of the world’s oldest rocks
1) Mineral resources (not exploited)
1) Non-metallic minerals (coal)
1) Metallic minerals (diamonds, lead, gold, nickel,
copper, zinc)
Interior Plains
pg. 106
1) Gently rolling landscape/ three different levels
2) Sedimentary Rock
3) Paleozoic Era
4) Sediments of the Canadian Shield eroded and
deposited into shallow seas, then compressed by
weight
1) Fertile farmland (wheat, barley, oats, canola,
sunflower, flax)
Cattle ranching
Fossil Fuels
Western Cordillera
pg. 112-115
1) 3 ranges of rugged mountains
2) Igneous, Metamorphic, Rockies: Sedimentary)
3) Late Mesozoic early Cenozoic
4) Collision of the North American and Pacific Plates
5) Contains Coast range, Columbia Mts., Rocky Mts.
1) Tourism, mining
Great Lakes & St. Lawrence
Lowlands
pg. 107-109
1) Flat
2) Sedimentary rock
3) Paleozoic Era
4) Sediments from the Canadian Shield eroded and deposited,
then compressed by weight
5) Differential erosion
1) Farming, cities, manufacturing