GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY

The Boreal Shield is a Landform region of Canadian Shield and it is a Precambrian granite and exposed bedrocks. The Mountains are now just rolling hills and glacial has swept this area and caused major depression. The Boreal Shield has beauty outdoors that should explored and seen.

VEGETATION

The Boreal Shield is mostly covered with black spruce and balsam fir. The southern part gets mixed with the Mixedwood Plains and is deciduous, on the other hand the northern is coniferous. Also the heavy forest in north and south is a large logging industry.

SOIL

The thin soil by the harsh climate isn't really good for farming for most of the time to low humus and organic content. The is also sandy at glacial lakes where it deposits clay. The soil is mostly extracted from bedrock because it doesn't let water pass through. Some people have studying and have assumptions that this affects of acid rain and damages factories and the ecozone, they say it will happen in southern Quebec and Ontario.

FUN FACTS

Boreal Shield is the most popular summertime vacation area in Canada

Sudbury is the mining city in Canada

The river and lakes on the Boreal Shield is 22% of freshwater of Canada

Alex Trebek was born in Sudbury

The Boreal Shield is also known as “Shield Country” locally