5.1.2
d
Landforms and Vegetation—Key
Sort the landform and vegetation types into their natural regions. You may
repeat words under each of the regions. Add words to describe the natural
landscape of each region. Share your ideas with peers and use an atlas to check
your answers.
Landform and Vegetation
Types:
• tundra
• coniferous forest
• deciduous forest
• transition forest
(shrubs, low density,
mixed forest)
• coastal mountains
• permafrost
• grassland
• low elevation
• Laurentian Mountains
• Cape Breton Island
• high elevation
• Lake Superior
• Rocky Mountains
• flat land
• Fraser Plateau
• Laurentian Plateau
• Applachian Mountains
• Queen Charlotte
Islands
• Mackenzie Mountains
• Baffin Island
• Anticosti Island
• rocky soil
• Lake Winnipeg
• Lake Michigan
Western Cordillera
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coniferous forest
coastal mountains
Queen Charlotte
Islands
Fraser Plateau
high elevation
Rocky Mountains
Canadian Shield
•
•
•
•
•
transition forest
(shrubs, low
density, mixed
forest)
rocky soil
Laurentian Plateau
Lake Winnipeg
Laurentian
Mountains
Atlantic Region
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•
•
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coniferous forest
Appalachian
Mountains
transition forest
(shrubs, low
density, mixed
forest)
Cape Breton Island
Prairies
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•
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grassland
low elevation
flat land
transition forest
(shrubs, low
density, mixed
forest)
St. Lawrence―Great
Lakes Lowlands
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•
•
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deciduous forest
Lake Superior
Anticosti Island
Lake Michigan
Arctic Region
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tundra
Baffin Island
permafrost
Mackenzie
Mountains