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5 Everything you need to know about the…. = **Southern Arctic** = Web Page Created By: Devin Jhaveri, Eddie Blinkov , Malik Smith  ** Introduction and map of the Southern Arctic: ** For those who don’t know what the southern Arctic is, it’s an ecozone in Canada and it covers most of our northern territories and the northern parts of Quebec .92% of it is plains, 7% hills, and 1% valleys. It has long cold winters and short cool summers. With averages of -28`C for the winter and 5`C for the summers. The southern arctic is located in the landforms of the Canadian Shield and a little bit of the Interior Plains. But its location is all up north. The rocks and minerals that are mainly found there is Igneous, Sedimentary,
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Metamorphic rocks! The minerals in the southern arctic are lead, gold, nickel, copper, zinc, and there are some diamond deposits.

Some trees that grow here is Tamarack, White Spruce, Black Spruce, and Alden. Most trees grow in clumps so that the can resists the ferocious arctic winds. Some plans grow in the face of the sun. There are also many different types of berries that grow here too even wild ones.
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This climate graph is for the city Iqaluit which is located in this ecozone. It shows the mean temperature and precipitation for each and every month. For the winter the average temperature is -28`C and 5`C in the short cool summers.
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 * __ Fun Facts: __**[[image:mrnagribianko-ecozones/images.jpg width="339" height="250"]]
 * Many different types of animals that can survive in theses areas like..
 * Grizzly bears, black bears, Polar Bears, Wolves, Caribou, Mosses, Arctic Fox and many more
 * There are only about 10,000 people that live in this eco zone and 80% of them are Native
 * The two national parks here is called the Iwaki National park and the Tukut Nagait national park

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