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By: Faila, Cathlene, Arwinder, and Wilson

Location

  • The Boreal Shield extends from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland, covering major cities that includes St. John’s, Thunder Bay, Chicoutimi, and Sudbury. It ranges 18.7 million hectares of land.

› The most common landforms in this ecozone are plains and low hills.

›Boreal Shield contains two of the great lakes, Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Further, it passes through Lake Winnipeg and borders St. Lawrence River and Atlantic Ocean.

  • Some of the oldest rocks in the world can be found here, dating back to as early as 3.96 billion years ago.

› One of the famous landforms that can be found in Boreal Shield is Gros Morne National Park, the largest national park in Atlantic Canada. In fact it is famous for its diverse rock formations.

  • The most common types of soil in this ecozone are wet climate and leached soil.
  •  Most soils here are quite thin, high in acidity, low in nutrient accessibility, and cool.
  • Boreal Shield experiences long, cold, winters and short, warm summers.
  • The average midwinter temperature is -15°C and the average midsummer temperature is 17°C.
  • It has a reasonably high level of precipitation, 400mm in the west to 1000mm in the east.

The natural vegetation for Boreal Shield is mostly trees. Forestry takes up about 80% of the Boreal shield.

Several large and broad forests are found in the eastern part of the Boreal Shield.

The forests provides strong tree species such as coniferous, black and white spruce, jack pine and balsam fir.

Boreal Shield serves as home to 300 animal species.

Some mammals that can be found in the Boreal Shield are:

  • woodland caribou
  • white-tailed deer
  • black bear
  • racoon
  • bobcat
  • porcupine
  • bat
  • marten
  • skunk
  • eastern chipmunk

Some of the birds that live in this ecozone are:

  • boreal owl
  • great horned owl
  • blue jay
  • evening grosbeak
  • mourning dove
  • bald eagel

Ten percent of Canada's population live in this ecozone which is approximately 3 million, as of 1996.

Boreal Shield offers excellent kayaking and canoeing routes

Some of the water ways were ruined by mining, hydroelectric dams, logging, and forestry.

  • Thompson, Manitoba
  • Timmins, Ontario
  • Sudbury, Ontario
  • Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
  • Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
  • Val-d'or, Quebec
  • Chicoutimi, Quebec
  • St. John's, Newfoundland
  • Baie Verte, Newfoundland

Thank you for listening!

Boreal Shield

Soils

Wildlife

Interesting Facts

Landforms

-Boreal Shield is the largest ecozone in Canada. It covers almost 20% of Canada

Human Activities

References

  • http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/ecozones/borealshield/borealshield.htm
  • http://stephen579.wix.com/boreal-shield
  • http://ernestchi.tripod.com/index.html
  • http://ecozones.ca/english/zone/BorealShield/index.html

-This ecozone is named after the intersection of the boreal forest and Canadian Shield

-It is one of the most popular summertime vacation areas in Canada

-Sudbury is the largest mining city in Canada

-The Boreal Shield is also known as 'Shield Country'

Vegetation

Climate

Major cities

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