AJ

ATLANTIC MARITIME

INTRO: hello everyone! Welcome to my presentation on the Atlantic maritime, my name is Aj sharma and today i will be explaining the landform region, vegetaion and soil, climate, tourism, fun facts, air masses, preciptation and tempertature ranges of the Atlantic maritime.



Here is a climate graph of Sydney Nova Scotia.

CLIMATE: the climate in the Atlantic Maritime is located in the Southeastern climate region, the Atlantic Maritime is known to have cooler summers and warmer winters.

AIR MASSES, PRECIPTATION, AND TEMPURATURE RANGES:

the winters in the Atlantic Maritime are about -5 degeress which isn't bad for winter time and the summers are in the range of about 14 degress. The range average of preciptation a year in the Atlantic maritime is about 1000- 1400. Due to the precipitation the Atlantic maritime has the most storms in all the regions. However it is not all bad for the Atlantic maritime with the storms. Since there is a lot of rain fall this helps there crops grow and the season to grow them lasts over 100 days. The precipataion they get in orangraphic. The air masses that are in the Atlantic Maritime come form the oceans ( Bay of fundy) and some from great st lawrence river region.



ROCKS AND MINERALS: In the Atlantic Maritime they have the Appalaichain Mountain which is built up for igneous and sedimentray rock. The minerals found in sedimentary rock are non-metalic, including coal, salt, and natural gas. Meanwhile, the minerals found in igneous rock are metalic minreals including cooper, lead, zinc, and sliver. Hard Igneous rock is found at the bottom of the range of mountains where area's are havy in forestry. Lowland caostal area's are also composted of Sedimentary rock.

AGRITCULTURE, VEGETATION AND SOIL: Active agricultural production occuring in this ecozone includes: dairy and cattle farming, poultry production, fruit and vegetable growing, fishing, forestry and tourism. Since the huge amount of rainfall in the Atlantic maritime the growing seasons are very succsessful. The Atlantic Maritime also has good soil and with the differnt amount of trees in the Atlantic maritime it is one of the best know regions in canada for growing and prouducing goods.



LANDFORM:

Approixmently about 270 millon years ago pangena was isolated from itself making it two parts de-attach from each other, then the lands both smashed into each other creating what we know as today as the Appalachian Mountains. the western part of pagena that got isolated from itself is now today as, Africa. When the two plates started going into each other it caused natural disaters such as volcanos erupting until they stopped and became the Appalachian Mountains. This did not come with out any consqueues however because it was thinning the crust of the Atlantic maritime.



ECOZONES FUTURE: In my opinion the Atlantic maritime will have its ups and downs in the future. The population might increase which is good but i think that since the Atlantic Maritime has such good reputation for their growing seasons that they will soon be at limitations with their matierals ( trees, land,etc) in about 5-10 years. Higher expecatations will be expected by the Atlantic Maritime because their population will continue to increase and with more people becomes more responablitles and more resources (transportation,food,water, education etc). Hopefully the Atlantic Maritime's future will be bright but for now we can not know or predict what is going to happen.



TOURISM: - Confederation Bridge (Bridge that connects Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia) - Green Gables House (Prince Edward Island) - Rock Formations located at Hopewell Cate (Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick)

FUN FACTS:

THE ATLANTIC MARITIME IS KNOW AS THE WARMEST REGION IN CANADA

ANIMALS FOUND IN THIS ECO ZONE INCLUDE THE RED FOX, MUSKRAT, SKUNK, MOOSE AND MUCH MORE

THE BAY OF FUNDY HAS THE LARGEST TIDES IN THE WORLD

THE BAY OF FUNDY DISCHARGES 100 CUBIC KM WITH EACH TIDE WHICH IS EQULIVANT TO THE WATER RELEASED FROM ALL RIVERS IN THE WORLD IN ONE DAY

LINKS TO WEBSITES: Natural Resources Canada, []

Worldweb.com, Atlantic Canada Tourism Guide & Visitor Guide, []

Canadian Wildlife Federation, Striped Skunk, []

Kyle Dains, Atlantic Maritimes, http://ecozone-experts.wikispaces.com/Atlantic+Maritime, Wikispaces, 22/10/11

The Atlantic Maritimes tour, [], Nova Scotia Travels, 22/10/11

Masterfile, Autumn Colours, Gatineau Park, Quebec []

By: Aj sharma gr9 APHS