ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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The Hudson Bay
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The St. Lawrence River
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The Canadian Shield
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The Rocky Mountains
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Canadian Shield-is a massive physical region of central and eastern Canada, including nearly half of Canada’s land area. While its rocky soil is not good for farming, the Canadian Shield is rich in natural resources such as trees, minerals, and water.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Canadian Shield’s most notable physical features are thousands of small lakes, thin layers of soil and rolling hills. Lakes are largely the result of glacial erosion during the last ice age.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Canadian Shield is one of the world’s richest areas in terms of mineral ores, such as nickel, gold, silver, and copper. It also hosts prehistoric alkaline intrusions that are lower-middle Cambrian in age that produced rare minerals like sodalite and cancrinite.
Detailed explanation-4: -Canada has seven physiographic regions. These regions are the Canadian Shield, the Western Cordillera, the Canadian Arctic, the Appalachian Region, the Interior Plains, the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the St. Lawrence Lowlands.