Point Pelee National Park
By: Edward Su
Physical Aspects:
Located around 55 km southeast of Windsor, Ontario, Point Pelee National Park is one of Canada’s smallest national parks, yet this tiny green oasis still attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each and every year. The park sits atop a deposit of sand up to 70 meters thick left by glacial meltwaters on a submerged limestone ridge. Over the years, a thin but rich layer of soil has formed over the top and is supporting a lush, almost jungle-like deciduous forest housing several different species of trees and even some rare species such as sassafras and hackberry trees. This park also has many sand beaches due to it being on the coastline and many large cattail marshes.
In my poster, the spotlight is on the marsh boardwalk, leading to one of the many deciduous forests in the park, this is also one of the few remaining marshes left in all of Canada due to extensive housing and agriculture. This park enjoys one of the warmest climates in the country, averaging temperatures of about -4C in the winter and 21C in the summer. As you can see in my poster, the boardwalk in the middle of my poster is separating the summer(left) from the winter(bottom right). Point Pelee also receives the lowest amount of precipitation in all of …show more content…
The boardwalk in the the middle of the map is called the marsh boardwalk. In the summer the water is suitable for fishing and birdwatching, while in the winter, people love to skate on the ice and go cross-country skiing. In the summer marsh, painted turtles and bullfrogs are very common so don’t be surprised if you see several. It's hard to miss red-tailed blackbirds as there are so many of them spending much of their time swaying on top of cattail
By: Edward Su
Physical Aspects:
Located around 55 km southeast of Windsor, Ontario, Point Pelee National Park is one of Canada’s smallest national parks, yet this tiny green oasis still attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each and every year. The park sits atop a deposit of sand up to 70 meters thick left by glacial meltwaters on a submerged limestone ridge. Over the years, a thin but rich layer of soil has formed over the top and is supporting a lush, almost jungle-like deciduous forest housing several different species of trees and even some rare species such as sassafras and hackberry trees. This park also has many sand beaches due to it being on the coastline and many large cattail marshes.
In my poster, the spotlight is on the marsh boardwalk, leading to one of the many deciduous forests in the park, this is also one of the few remaining marshes left in all of Canada due to extensive housing and agriculture. This park enjoys one of the warmest climates in the country, averaging temperatures of about -4C in the winter and 21C in the summer. As you can see in my poster, the boardwalk in the middle of my poster is separating the summer(left) from the winter(bottom right). Point Pelee also receives the lowest amount of precipitation in all of …show more content…
The boardwalk in the the middle of the map is called the marsh boardwalk. In the summer the water is suitable for fishing and birdwatching, while in the winter, people love to skate on the ice and go cross-country skiing. In the summer marsh, painted turtles and bullfrogs are very common so don’t be surprised if you see several. It's hard to miss red-tailed blackbirds as there are so many of them spending much of their time swaying on top of cattail