Canada

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Canadas Landform Regions
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Landform Region Map
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Appalachian Mountains

• Rocky shoreline at West Dover, NS
• The boulders were deposited by glaciers

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Appalachian Mountains

• Valley in Cape Breton
• Notice the rounded mountains

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Appalachian Mountains

• Aspy Bay in Cape Breton

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Appalachian Mountains

• Cape Breton Highlands
• The mountains have been flattened by erosion

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Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Typical farm in Ontario

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Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

• The city of Toronto from the air
• Notice the lack of hills
• Also notice the smog

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Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Farmland near Toronto

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Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Southern Ontario from the air
• Notice the flat horizon

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Canadian Shield

• Lake near Port Cartier, Quebec
• Rounded hills in the background

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Canadian Shield

• Exposed rock along the lakeshore
• Notice the scratches in the rock
• They were caused by glaciers

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Canadian Shield

• Boulder field in the Northwest Territories
• More evidence of glaciation

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Canadian Shield

• A boulder in the Northwest Territories
• It was deposited here by a retreating glacier

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Canadian Shield

• Exposed rock near Abitibi, Quebec
• The scratches are the result of a glacier

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Hudson Bay Lowlands

• A wetland known as a muskeg in Northern Manitoba

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Hudson Bay Lowlands

• The watery terrain outside Churchill, Manitoba

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Hudson Bay Lowlands

• The water-filled landscape near Fort Severn,
  Ontario

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Hudson Bay Lowlands

• A forested bog outside Gilliam, Manitoba

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Interior Plains

• Farmland near the Red River in Southern Manitoba

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Interior Plains

• The meandering Red River in Southern Manitoba

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Interior Plains

• The Cypress Hills in Southern Saskatchewan

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Interior Plains

• The QuAppelle Valley in Southern Saskatchewan
• A rare change from the flat landscape in this
  region

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Interior Plains

• Cows graze in a rocky field
• These rocks, deposited by glaciers, are called
  moraine

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Western Cordillera

• Mountains of the Yukon
• Notice the jagged peaks
• If you looks carefully, you will also see glaciers

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Western Cordillera

• One of the large glaciers found in the Yukon

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Western Cordillera

• A glacier-fed lake in Jasper National Park in
  Alberta

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Western Cordillera

• Jasper National Park
• The valley is U-shaped because it was carved by a
  glacier, not the river you see here

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Western Cordillera

• The Coast Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop
  in this picture of North Vancouver, BC

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Arctic Lowlands

• Tundra in Nunavut
• Notice the flat land and strewn rocks

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Arctic Lowlands

• The flat, exposed land of Prince Patrick Island
  in the Northwest Territories

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Arctic Lowlands

• Another image of Prince Patrick Island in the NWT
• The flat land allows melting water to cover a
  vast area

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Innuitian Mountains

• The dramatic cliffs of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

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Innuitian Mountains

• A glacier and its melt water on Ellesmere Island,
  Nunavut

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Innuitian Mountains

• Red rocks and barren landscape on Melville Island
• Melville Island is divided between Nunavut and
  the Northwest Territories