2+Arctic+Cordillera

__ARCTIC CORDILLERA INTRO__ To start off, ecozone is a classification system that helps people to define the different parts of the environment that has similar geography, vegetation and animal life. Canada has 15 terrestrial and 5 aquatic ecozones. Arctic Cordillera is the northernmost region in Canada and also have one of the coldest climates where temperature can get as cold as -35 degrees. SInce it's very cold, there's not much plants or habitat, since it also has lots of mountain peak and disolate valleys. We will go into furthermore details below. __LANDFORM REGION__ The landform region for Arctic Cordeilla (stuff you would see when you arrive their) has a fair amount of sedimentary rock, ice caps and ice sheets, icebergs and a lot of snow. If you just arrived at the Arctic Cordillera for your first time you would probley see a lot of snow and ice, but maybe not a lot of animals and people. Not just because their's not any or they died but its because there fur camouflages with the snow. Theirs more animals that live their than you think you would, such as Wolf, Polar Bear, Beluga, and Hawks. That's just it most to theirs alot of fish to, in fact most of the Artic Coreilla animal poupition lives in the water, like Whale, Huskeys, Bass, Tuna, and lots more. Theirs not of vegaton life their due to all the cold tempuater, so not alot of plants can suvrive their that condrtion, but the plants that live their are just pine. Another thing that you would mostly see is very and old mountians, these mountians are in pretty bad shape due to all the snow and hail storms. Theses mountains are volcainc rock range in age from 1.2 billion to 65 millions years ago, nows that old. Thats why it always snow their because of Orgraphic prepration. __ROCKS AND MINERALS__ Rocks and minerals are rarely found in the arctic cordillera. There is no mining at all. They put no money into finding minerals in the arctic cordillera because there are none to be found. There are some rocks in this region. You can find Igneous rock, Meatmorphic rock, and also Sedimentary rock. There arent many of these rocks either. Most of the rock is in the mountains or somewhere on the land. Its impoissible to find any minerals. Thus the reason they do not put money into this. From this you can tell that there isnt many rocks or minerals to be found here.

__VEGETATION AND SOIL__ Vegetation in Arctic Cordillera is very rare because most of the land is covered in permanent ice and snow. However, small plants such as the arctic willow, shrubs and cotton grass that are adapted to the cold climate are grown in the short growing session of Arctic Cordillera. Also, 3/4 of the land is bare rock, which makes the region contain very low amount of soil or plants. If you go south of Arctic Cordillera though, just on north of Quebec there will be some needle-leaf forests.

__CLIMATE AND CLIMOGRAPH__ Climate in the arctic cordillera is very harsh and extreme. Its very cold around these parts all year round. Temppertures can go low as -35. The high is around 5 and that is still very cold. Mostly all the precipitatiom is snow and they get around 200mm of precipitation a year. Winter days are long and dark. Because of cold winters the growing season is very short. Summers are short and still cool.The average temperature is 0 in the arctic cordillera. From this you can tell its pretty much always cold all year round.

__TOURISM__ Usually when you're thinking about the Artic Coredillea, there are almost nothing to do. But there is a couple of things that you dont get to do or see back home like animal sight seeing. Their's a lot of aimals that you wouldn't see at home, like Polar Bears, Wolfs, Beguna and even whale. Not only that there are so many types of fish, people like to come all over North America to fish here beacuse this is the loaction that bigger fish seem to live, also over 100 miles of crystale clear lake. Also you can go camping or sight seeing up at the old but yet beauitful mountains, they been their for over 65 million years, wow. Another thing is that theirs so much snow so you can almost anything that envoles snow like sking/snowbording, snowshoeing, ice fishing and so much more. Who would'nt want to visit this place? The wild life the sight seeing (mountains lakes is beauitful and all the fun actives you can do up here. So that's mostly the only reason why people like to vist this place.
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__FUN FACTS__ The people of the Cordillera hunt fishes and traps animals for hobbies. There are about 3 cities in the whole Arctic Cordillera. There are no universities in Arctic Cordillera. They people there do not live in igloos. They still learn French in Arctic Cordillera.

__ECOZONE'S FUTURE__ Have you ever wondered what would the future look like? Ever wonder what the Arctic Cordillera's ecozone would look like in 20 years? Would there be still snow? Or how about any life form like animals or vegetation? I can tell you that the Arctic Cordillera won't look the same in 20 years like it does today. The reason why it will change is because it doesn't have many minerals so they won't have a lot of money, it's cold now but global warming will eventually heat up and all the snow and the snow will start to melt and so that's going to have a chain reaction. Animals will also start to die off and move to a different location and so then people won't have a lot of food to eat and they will start to starve and move to a different area due to lack of food resources. So if not a lot of people living in the Arctic Cordilera no one will be able to take care of the rest of the Arctic Cordillera. It eventually will be deserted with no snow.

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