4+Arctic+Cordillera

= __//**Welcome To The Arctic Cordillera!**//__ =

There are 15 ecozones in Canada! The Arctic Cordillera is just one of them, and is found in the Northern Part Of Canada! This region has an area of 234 708 km2. It consists of Parts of Nunavut, and the northern tip of Labrador. The Arctic Cordillera's major urban areas are: Broughton Island, Clype River and Pond Inlet.

//"No! There's the land. (Have you seen it?) It's the cussedest land that I know, From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it To the deep, deathlike valleys below. Some say God was tired when He made it; Some say it's a fine land to shun; Maybe; but there's some as would trade it For no land on earth – and I'm one."~Robert Service//

The Main Landform region is the Innuition Mountains. *DID YOU KNOW* 75% of the Arctic Codrillera's Landscape is either ice or bedrock? *Did You Know* The word Innuition comes from the word "innuit" which is a name given by the Eskimos to describe themselves? = **//__Tourism__//** **//__& Human Activities__//** = The Population of the Arctic Cordillera is sparsley populated with only about 1300 people living there year round. The GDP is $0.012 billion, which is made mainly through hunting, trapping and fishing and tourism. The main tourism is found in "Auyuittuq National Park" in Nunavut, Canada. There, people go to expirience things like: hiking, skiing, dog sledding and much more in the most northern and isolated place in Canada!! The park was established in 1976, and has provided great expiriences for the people who visit! *DID YOU KNOW* That this eco zone is the least populated in Canada? =__//** Vegetation and climate **//__ = All climate regions can affect each other in different ways. Two related factors are Climate and vegetation. The Climate of the Arctic Cordillera is cold, with winter temperatures averaging about -40.C, and average summer temperatures reaching about -2C. The region has less than 200 mm of precipitation. These cold temperatures combined with low precipitation make it very hard to grow anything but mosses and small shrubs. Latitude is a main global factor that effects climate because the further you are from the equator, the colder and drier it will be, since cold air holds less moisture. =//**__Location and Climate:__**// = Two related factors are location and climate. The Arctic Cordillera Ecozone runs along the northeastern fringe of Nunavut and Labrador, notably on Ellesmere and Baffin Islands (from the name you can probably tell that it is located in the Arctic area) The climate is considerably cold, the summer temperatures range from -2 degrees Celsius in the Mountains of Ellesmere Island to around 6 degrees Celsius in Northern Labrador. The winter temperatures are as low as -40 degrees Celsius in the north. Precipitation is generally snow and the north has an average of only 200mm a year, on the other hand Labrador can reach a yearly average of 600mm of perception! Now, these two factors are related because in the arctic area the temperatures are cold because the latitude is so high, and the higher up you are the colder the temperatures will be. The location makes the temperatures cooler therefore most of the precipitation that falls is frozen (snow/hail), very little is actually rain because the temperatureis below zero, which is the freezing temperature of water.

=//**__Soil and Vegetation:__ **//= Soils are formed mainly in the few narrow valley bottoms. These valleys are the only locations where plants prosper to any degree. Long, narrow U-shaped valleys are commonly found on the fjord coastline. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Not much can grow in the harsh conditions, even soil is rare. Seventy-five percent of the land is bare rock. Plants that do grow here are usually tiny species. The short growing season produces small, stunted vegetation <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">These two factors share a very obvious relationship; vegetation needs soil to grow! There is very little soil in the Arctic Cordillera, which can only lead to one thing: little vegetation. The soil is not very good, because the ground is frozen and cold which makes it even harder for plants to grow. Some plants that can/do grow in the Arctic Cordillera include arctic black spruce, arctic willow, cottongrass, kobresia, moss species, wood rush, wire rush, purple saxifrage and a lot more!



**(Arctic Willow ) (Cottongrass)**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> One of the largest sparsely populated areas is the Arctic Cordillera. Most of the local population depend on hunting, fishing, and trapping. They are also involved in mining, oil and gas development, construction, services, and government activities. Climate can affect some of these things. In the Arctic Cordillera it is cold and dry throughout the year, with a mean winter temperature of -35°C, and average temperature of -2°C. =<span style="color: #0601b7; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**//Rocks And Minerals//**__ = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> In the Arctic Cordillera, there is barley no mining. There are some rocks, but they are rarely found. Something you will never find is minerals. These are the reasons they do not put any money into mining because there’s not enough for them to find. Rocks you would be able to find are igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and also sedimentary rock.

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