<p> Ecozones of Canada</p><p>What is an Ecozone? ______</p><p>How many Ecozones does Canada have? ______</p><p>Ecozone Location Physical Climate Animals Example of National Park Arctic Cordillera Eastern Baffin and variety of birds, Auyuittuq National Devon Islands and walrus, narwhal and Park most Ellesmere and beluga whale Bylot Islands</p><p>Northern Arctic lowland plains Aulavik National covered with glacial Park parts</p><p>Southern Arctic Area around cold, with long Ivvavik National Hudson’s Bay winters, short cool Park (Nunavut, Northern summers Quebec and Labrador Atlantic Maritime From St Lawrence Appalachian upland white tailed deer, River through New and coastal plain moose, raccoon, Brunswick and into skunk Nova Scotia and PEI</p><p>Boreal Cordillera Mid section of long cold winters and Canadian Rockies. short warm summers Northern BC and Southern Yukon</p><p>Boreal Plains cold winters and woodland caribou, Wood Buffalo warm summers coyote, chipmunks National Park Boreal Shield U shaped, N Georgian Bay Saskatchewan, E to Islands National Newfoundland Park</p><p>Hudson Plains Northern Ontario and Wapusk National Quebec near Park Hudson’s Bay</p><p>Prairie semi-circular and cold winters and hot near Canada and USA summers border (Alberta- Manitoba</p><p>Mixedwood Plains agriculture soils and white tailed deer, gentle mountain black bears, skunks Montane Cordillera long cold winters and bighorn sheep, Glacier National short warm summers badgers, fishers Park</p><p>Pacific Maritime mountains, and very little difference glacial boundaries between winter and summer….cool</p><p>Taiga Cordillera N Rocky Mountain, steep mountains and Yukon and SW NWT narrow valleys</p><p>Taiga Plains cold moose, bison, wolf Wood Buffalo National Park Taiga Shield On both sides of lots of forests and Hudson Bay open tundra</p>