SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Canadian Shield is the original core, or craton, of the North American continent. It includes much of Greenland, more than half of Canada, and it extends into the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Superior Upland region of the Midwest.

Detailed explanation-2: -The climate of this ecoregion is low to high subarctic, characterized by short, cool summers and very cold winters. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, has the lowest mean annual temperature of any major city in Canada:-5ºC.

Detailed explanation-3: -The immense Eastern Canadian Shield Taiga ecoregion stretches from Hudson and James Bays of the Arctic Ocean east to the Labrador Sea of the Atlantic Ocean and north to the southern portion of Ungava Bay of the Arctic Ocean.