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The Boreal Shield has two different types of rocks, igneous and metamorphic. For millions of years, magma slowly burst traveled up through the cracks of the earth's crust and started to gradually cooled into igneous rock, with the heat and pressure of more magma, formed metamorphic rock. The Boreal Shield is a very useful source of lead, gold, nickel, copper, zinc, etc. making it one of the targeted spots for mining.
The Boreal Shield covers a wide swath from Alberta to Newfoundland, south of the Taiga Shield and Hudson Plains and north of various ecozones, including the Boreal Plains, Mixedwood Plains, and Atlantic Maritime.
The Boreal Shield is the largest of Canada's terrestrial ecozone
The Boreal Shield climate is the largest in Canada's ecozone. The Boreal Shield provides exposed bedrock, endless forest and rushing rivers. Summer has about the same average temperature throughout the are of about 13C. Maritime influence in the east gives it milder winter, high of about -1 C. Western edge suffers through average winter temperature of about 20C. Precipitation in the west is low about 400mm a year, high as 1600mm a year. In areas such as Newfoundland. largely due to its position in the Atlantic.
The area of the Boreal Shield is 1 640 949km2
Tree species that can be found in the Boreal Shield include:
Some of the other plants that grow here are :
Some of the large herbivores of the region include:
Some carnivores include:
Having such a large ecozone there is a vast area of different wildlife in the Boreal Shield. With over 230 different birds and Hundreds of different mammals that live in the Boreal Shield. Here are just some of the wildlife that life in the Boreal Shield.
Aquatic mammals found off of the eastern coast include:
There are many species of reptiles and amphibians that live in the Boreal Shield:
Birds in this ecozone include:
Fish in the ecozone include:
Insects that are common in the Boreal Shield are: