1. North America Region
Project
Legend/Key
Socials 9: Chin
Nicole Hunter

2. Appalachian

3. Appalachian
• Mountainous area
• East coast of north America
• Extends 2400 kilometres
• Width of the mountain varies
between 160 to 480 kilos
Climate
Topography
• Made out of many
different mountain ranges
• Mountains formed almost
300,000,000 years ago
Economic Activity
Vegetation
• Originally the region was heavily
forested with different coniferous and
deciduous trees
• Trees could survive in poor and
unproductive mountain soil
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Mining
Forestry
Agriculture
Chemical industries
Heavy industry
The region poverty rate was 16.1%
• Labrador Current brings
cold water to south
• Causes freezing during to
the winter season in
northern parts of the
region
• Gulf stream brings warm
water north from the
Caribbean
Concerns
• Water pollution isn’t adequately
regulated
• Absence ownership holds hurt
Appals

4. Topography
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Average elevation of less then 200
metres above sea level
Surface is mostly flat and gently rolling
The region contains many swamps and
marches
When there’s sinking, the land
submerge the lower reaches of many
streams
Vegetation
• The soil of Coastal Plains are
very sandy
• The originals vegetation of the
area was pine forest
• Natural vegetation adapted
the sandy soil
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In the north there's cold and snowy and hot
humid summers
South has subtropical climate, with cool to
warm winters
Also the southern has a higher chance of
having a hurricane
Hurricane seasons occurs between late
summers and early winters
• Lowland area
• Stretches about 3200 kilos from cape cod
Concerns
Climate
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Coastal Plains
Economic Activities
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Tourism and recreation
Shipping at the ports
Commercial fishing
Paper making
• Farming pollution seeping into
the ground
• Running off into the river and lake
system
• Driving automobiles
• Disposing waste into landfills
• Lumber harvesting

5. Coast Plains

6. Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowland

7. Great Lakes – St. Lawrence
Lowland
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Concerns
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Smallest geographical region in Canada
• Includes the triangle formed by Lake Huron,
Ontario and Erie
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• Contains many escarpments
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• Best known being the Niagara Escarpments
Topography
• Has a rolling landscape
• Mainly made by glaciation
• Flat plains are broken by hills and deep river
valleys
• On the St. Lawrence section consist of flat
plains on either side of the river
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Number of non native species that are taking
over the lakes
Every eight months a new species enters the
great lakes
New animals or insects coming into or leaving
an ecosystem can be just as damaging as
pollution
Most of the food source of most fish in lake
Michigan had being Diporeia
Diporeia shrimp have declined from over 10,000
per square meter to virtually zero on the lake
bottom because of zebra mussels
Lake Michigan the decrease in Deporeia is
extreme high at 44% killed over the past ten
years
Lake Huron is down by 57% in Deporeia
polutation in just in past three years
Climate
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A humid continental Climate
Humid because of the Great Lakes
Tends to cool during the summer
The great lake warms the surrounding areas
in winter
• Winter vary from cool to cold and warm to
humid
Economic Activities
• Transportation
• Trading post
• Supports multi billion outd
recreation
• Tourism industry
• Extensive agricultural
Vegetation
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Originally the region, which has very fertile soils, was
heavily treed
Once had Canada's largest broad-leafed forests, because its
soil and climate conditions aloud
maples, beech, hickory, and black walnuts to thrive
Other places in the region the Vegetation was mixed forest
of both deciduous and conifers

8. Interior Plains

9. Interior Plains
• Vast seep of plain
Climate
• Not entirely flat
• Land is composed of gently rolling hills deep river valleys
• In USA, this region runs between Appalachian Mountains
on the east coast, and on the rocky Mountains
• In Canada, this region runs between Canadian Shield and
Rocky Mountains
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Is a continental Climate
Climate of extremes
It has long hot summers, cold winters and
little precipitation
Farther in the north, the winter season are
shorter and cool in the north as well
Northern part of the region has Arctic
climate with really long cold winters
Vegetation
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Originally the Central Lowland east of the
Mississippi was covered with trees and were
scattered evergreens
West of Mississippi in the region, prairie
grasses grew as tall as a person
Natural vegetation of the Canada prairies
was also grassland
Tree grew only in the river valleys
Northern part of the region, boreal forest
grows, gradually becoming tundra towards
the Arctic Ocean
Topography
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Its divide into Central Lowland and Great plains in the
US
Central Lowland is formed by Canadian Shield, St.
Lawrence, and, the Great Lakes
The region is higher in elevation than the Central
Lowland
Its rising about 600 metres to 1500 metres above the
sea level in west
Plains are softly rolling also gradually sloping down
from west to east
Concerns
• Farm pollutants seeping
into the ground
• Separating off into the river
and lake programs
• Incorporate industry
Economic Activities
• Agriculture (split into two
parts)
• Livestock: cattle,pigs,poultry
• Vegetables:
wheat,barley,oats,flax,conola

10. Canadian Shield

11. Canadian Shield
• More then 2 billion years old
• Consist of great volcanic mountain
• Mountains were levelled by millions of
years of erosion
• Platform of rocks that stretch from
Labrador, around Hudson Bay and James
Bay
Concerns
• Its not facing enough people
living in it to support the
economy and pay taxes
• Lakes are located where racks
are igneous
• Pollution of the great lakes
• Acid rain
Economic Activities
• Has industry dominated by the
mining of metals and mineral
• Early 1900s Hudson Bay, used land
as a resource for fur trading
• Mining is the logging of the boreal
forest
Topography
Glaciers removed most of the soil
leaving a barren rock surface
Glaciers also affected the drainage of
the shield to a significant degree
Shield consist of a chaotic pattern of
rivers,lakes,swamps and muskeg
Elevation of the Shield is about 100
metres in the south
Middle of the shield is a lot lower in
elevation than its other portion
Vegetation
Climate
• Varies throughout the vast area
• Winter is extremely long and
cold
• Summer is becoming shorter
and cooler
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Boreal forest covers most of
the shield; spruce, pine, and fir
• Also some deciduous trees
such as: white birch and poplar
• The trees are weak
• The trees are more good for
pulp and paper

12. Western Cordillera

13. Western Cordillera
• Runs along the west coast of North America
• Consist of range after range of mountains
• Separate by plateaus and valleys
Topography
• Comprised of new mountains not yet
worm down by erosion
• More then twice as high
• Rivers going east to south
Vegetation
Climate
• Winters are above freezing
• Summers are cool
• Parts of the wettest regions on earth
Concerns
• Construction and development
of the land
• Causes of habitat destruction
in Eco zone
• Lead to death
• Leeward slopes: grass
and cactuses
• Top of mountains
• Vegetation becomes
scarce or crease
Economic Activities
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Fishing
Mining
Orchards
Vineyards
Forestry

14. Intermountain region

15. Intermountain region
• Area in us and Canada
• Lies between the rocky
mountains and cascades, and
Sierra Nevada
• Thinly populated, high plateaus
• Contain only deserts in the US
Topography
• Stream and rivers never reach the
sea
• They instead, flow into brackish
lakes, such as great salt lake in Utah
• Some rivers do find a way to the
ocean
• There's areas that can be made
productive by irrigation
Concerns
• Many bird habitats are being
destroyed by human actions
• Up to 11 bird species in the
region is endangered
• Because of the dry air, forest
fires can be a problem
Economic Activities
• Cattle ranching
• Irrigation
Climate
• Winter can be cool, wet or hot
• Southern parts of the
region, winters are short and
warm
• Northern: Climate is more
moderate
• Moist winters and hot dry
summers
Vegetation
• Ranges between sparse grassland to
plants that can survive in semi deserts
or deserts conditions
• Higher areas are covered in thin pine

16. Arctic

17. Arctic
Concerns
• Combination of lowlands and mountains
• Lowlands are found un a series of islands
lying north of Hudson bay
• Mountain are found in extreme
northwest border
Topography
• Near the ocean is very flat
• Mountains of far north were
formed by folding and are covered
by glaciers
• Immense lowlands in the west
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• Melting of the permafrost
• Global warming cold change the
landscape
• Buildings and roads put warmth and
pressure on the permafrost causing
melting
• Invasive species push aside native
vegetation and reduce of the plant
cover
• North and South pole means stronger
ultraviolet rays will harm tundra
Climate
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Very severe
Its far from the equator
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Winter lasts for ten months in far
north
Summer is very short and not very •
warm
Some parts of the arctic is covered in •
ice year round
Economic Activities
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Extraction of petroleum and
mineral resources
One tenth of worlds oil
Quarter of its natural gas
Commercial fishing
Traditional hunting, reindeer
herding
Vegetation
Trees can’t grow on the tundra because
the climate is too cold and dry
Only small amounts of thawing occurs
during the summer
Mosses,shrubs,lichens , are the only
things that can grow
They’re attach to ground, soaking up the
moisture and tiny amounts of warmth
that’s there

18. Mount Logan

19. Resources
http://www.appalmad.org/
http://www.arc.gov/appalachian_region/TheAppalachianRegion.asp
http://ca.yahoo.com/questions/index?qid=20100505773826AAllqep
www.ask.com/answers/43443121/what-is-an-econmic-activity-in-the-coastal-plains
www.great.lakes.net/econ/
http://ca.yahoo.com/questions/index?qid=20100505773826AAllqep
www.interiorplains.weebly.com/economic-activities.html
gcp.desire2learn.com/d21/lor/viewer/viewfile.d2file/6605/8957/CanadianEnviormentalI
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www.thearctic.is/articles/overviews/changing/enska/index.htm