SSC MTS EXAM

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: -GENERAL INFORMATION The Canadian Shield is the largest of Canada’s 6 physical regions. This area completely surrounds the Hudson’s Bay in the shape of a horseshoe. It includes the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador only).

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: -The Canadian shield covers most of the Greenland, Nunavut, Ontario, and Quebec. The Shield is over two billion years old. The Canadian Shield has many resources such as rich minerals and fields full of rocks, diamonds, nickel, gold, and copper.