1. Physical and Political Features of
Canada

2. EQ: 1. Where are the major physical features of Canada located. 2
EQ: 1. Where are the major physical features of Canada located? What factors of location, climate, access to water and natural resources affect trade, work and where people live? How are acid rain, pollution of the Great Lakes, the extraction and use of natural resources on the Canadian Shield, and timber resources Canada's major environmental problems.
What do we need to be able to do?
Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: the St. Lawrence River, Hudson Bay, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, the Great Lakes, Canadian Shield, and Rocky Mountains.

3. Where is Canada? Describe Canada’s location on the world map.
Describe Canada’s location in relation to the United States.

4. Canada is located in the western hemisphere
Canada is located in the western hemisphere. The country had the Arctic Ocean to its north, Pacific Ocean west and the Atlantic Ocean on its eastern border.
The United States forms about a 3,000 mile southern border.
Most of the Canada’s people live in the southern regions about within 100 miles of the United States border due to moderate climate, farming, water sources and minerals.

5. Where are the major physical and political features of Canada located?
Today, we are going to locate and write notes…
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
St. Lawrence River
Hudson Bay
Great Lakes
Rocky Mountains
Canadian Shield
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec

6. Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is on Canada’s east coast
It is the second largest ocean.
Atlantic Ocean

7. Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is on Canada’s west coast.
Largest and deepest ocean
Pacific Ocean

8. St. Lawrence River
St. Lawrence River

9. St. Lawrence River Connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
Important to Canada’s history because it allowed explorers to travel into North America by water
Important natural resource – water and trade route
The Story of the St. Lawrence Seaway

10. Hudson Bay A gulf in east-central Canada
Connected to Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
Hudson
Bay

11. Great Lakes
Great Lakes

12. Great Lakes
Forms part of the border with the United States. From 50% to 70% of Canada’s acid rain come from US factories around the Great Lakes.
Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario are split between the United States and Canada. Lake Michigan is only in the U.S.

13. Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains

14. Rocky Mountains
Stretch over 3000 miles from British Colombia in Canada to New Mexico in the United States
Mount Robson is the tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies at nearly 13,000 feet.

15. Canadian Shield * see the next slide, as well

16. Canadian Shield Covers a large part of eastern and central Canada
It has ancient rock just below and sometimes sticking out of the soil.
The area is known for its thin, rocky soil and rough, rolling landscape. This region has many lakes and rivers and is rich in minerals (coal, oil, iron ore)

17. Canadian Shield

18. Quebec
Québec City sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada's mostly French-speaking Québec province. Quebec capital is Quebec City, it sits on the St. Lawrence River. Canada gets 55% of its power from hydroelectricity. Quebec gets 90% of its electricity from water.
Quebec

19. Physical and Political Features of Canada Summarizer
Use what you know about Canada’s physical and political features to correctly answer the statements on the handout you will be given to close the lesson. (Take 5 minutes!)

20. Physical and Political Features of Canada Summarizer