How Do We Depend On The Environment We Live In?

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Landform Region (has gold, silver, copper, nickel, diamonds, and water as resources) covers more than half of Canada. relatively flat with rounded rocky hills. Made up of Metamorphic and Igneous rocks.

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Canadian Shield

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Landform Region covers most of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, rocky mountains,

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Western Cordillera

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Landform Region made up of sedimentary rock. Since long ago, this area was covered by shallow seas. Most of the oil and gas in Canada is locate in this region.

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Interior Plains

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Landform Region located in Southern Ontario,formed from sedimentary rock

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Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands

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Landform Region oldest highland region in Canada – formed when North American collided with Europe and North Africa during the formation of Pangaea. Millions of years of erosion have reduced the once jagged peaks to rolling mountains and hills. More recent glaciations have added to the leveling of these mountains.

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Appalachian Mountains

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Landform Region The water of Hudson Bay covered this region during the last Ice Age creating a layer of sedimentary rock on top of the older rock of the Canadian Shield

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Hudson's Bay and Arctic Lowlands

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Landform Region Located in the Arctic was formed when the North American Plate moved Northward

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Innuitian Mountains