Canada’s Landform Regions

Landform Region Map

Appalachian Mountains

• Rocky shoreline at West Dover, NS

• The boulders were deposited by glaciers

Appalachian Mountains

• Valley in Cape Breton• Notice the rounded

mountains

Appalachian Mountains

• Aspy Bay in Cape Breton

Appalachian Mountains

• Cape Breton Highlands

• The mountains have been flattened by erosion

Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Typical farm in Ontario

Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands

• The city of Toronto from the air

• Notice the lack of hills• Also notice the smog

Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Farmland near Toronto

Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Southern Ontario from the air

• Notice the flat horizon

Canadian Shield

• Lake near Port Cartier, Quebec

• Rounded hills in the background

Canadian Shield

• Exposed rock along the lakeshore

• Notice the scratches in the rock

• They were caused by glaciers

Canadian Shield

• Boulder field in the Northwest Territories

• More evidence of glaciation

Canadian Shield

• A boulder in the Northwest Territories

• It was deposited here by a retreating glacier

Canadian Shield

• Exposed rock near Abitibi, Quebec

• The scratches are the result of a glacier

Hudson Bay Lowlands

• A wetland known as a muskeg in Northern Manitoba

Hudson Bay Lowlands

• The watery terrain outside Churchill, Manitoba

Hudson Bay Lowlands

• The water-filled landscape near Fort Severn, Ontario

Hudson Bay Lowlands

• A forested bog outside Gilliam, Manitoba

Interior Plains

• Farmland near the Red River in Southern Manitoba

Interior Plains

• The meandering Red River in Southern Manitoba

Interior Plains

• The Cypress Hills in Southern Saskatchewan

Interior Plains

• The Qu’Appelle Valley in Southern Saskatchewan

• A rare change from the flat landscape in this region

Interior Plains

• Cows graze in a rocky field

• These rocks, deposited by glaciers, are called moraine

Western Cordillera

• Mountains of the Yukon

• Notice the jagged peaks

• If you looks carefully, you will also see glaciers

Western Cordillera

• One of the large glaciers found in the Yukon

Western Cordillera

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

Western Cordillera

• Jasper National Park• The valley is U-

shaped because it was carved by a glacier, not the river you see here

Western Cordillera

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

Arctic Lowlands

• Tundra in Nunavut• Notice the flat land

and strewn rocks

Arctic Lowlands

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

Arctic Lowlands

• Another image of Prince Patrick Island in the NWT

• The flat land allows melting water to cover a vast area

Innuitian Mountains

• The dramatic cliffs of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

Innuitian Mountains

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

Innuitian Mountains

• Red rocks and barren landscape on Melville Island

• Melville Island is divided between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories