Where is the Boreal Shield located?

Where is the Boreal Shield located?

Alberta
Borealer Schild/Province

Stretching 3 800 kilometres from Newfoundland to Alberta, the Boreal Shield includes parts of six provinces, covers more than 1.8 million square kilometres, and encompasses almost 20% of Canada’s land mass and 10% of its fresh water.

Where is the Boreal Shield located in Saskatchewan?

The largest ecozone, the Boreal Shield, extends in a broad, U-shape from northern Saskatchewan to Newfoundland. There are vast stretches of trees, lakes and rivers, and bedrock exposures. This ecozone has been largely opened up by transportation systems, but it still provides scenic wilderness sites.

What does the Boreal Shield cover?

The Boreal Shield Ecozone, as defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), is the largest ecozone in Canada. Covering 1.8 million square kilometres it covers almost 20% of Canada’s landmass, stretching from northern Saskatchewan to Newfoundland.

How many provinces does the Boreal Shield cover?

five provinces
The Boreal Shield Ecozone+ spans five provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec as well as parts of Labrador.

What provinces are in the Boreal Shield?

Borealer Schild/Province

What cities are in the Boreal Shield?

Some major communities — Chicoutimi-Jonquière, Sudbury, Elliot Lake, and Thunder Bay — have successfully diversified their economic base, while other one-industry centres have experienced significant declines in population and primary-resource activity.

What climate region is the boreal shield in?

The climate of the Boreal Shield is generally continental with long cold winters and short warm summers. Cold air masses over Hudson Bay bring relatively high levels of precipitation to much of the area, from 400 mm in the west to 1 000 mm in the east.

Which landform region is Ottawa located in?

Canadian landform region map (Ottawa in dark purple) Ottawa also has bedrock made from sediments that have eroded from the Canadian Shield, making it part of the lowlands of the Great lakes-St. Lawrence landform region of southern Ontario.

What climate region is the Boreal Shield in?

What are the major cities in the boreal forest?

For example, three of the biggest cities in these forests are as follows: Oslo in Sweden, Helsinki in Finland, and Yekaterinburg in Russia. All of these major cities are located at the most southern part of the Boreal forest in that region.

What towns are south of Ottawa?

Ottawa Surrounding Areas

• Kanata.
• Beaverbook, Kanata.
• Kanata Lakes, Kanata.
• The Village of Amberwood, Stittsville.
• Nepean.
• Stittsville.
• Orleans.
• Fitzroy Harbour.