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__Pacific Maritimes__ __Landform Region__ The pacific maritime ecozone covers over 195 square kilometers.The landforms that take up the most space is the coast mountains, they are steep and rugged. These

mountains are very young,at the highest point you can find ice sheets and glaciers.they cover 1600 kilmoeters long and 200 kilimoeters wide, along the coast of british columbia and some of the Alaskan Panhandle. The mountains are mostly made up of granite (witch is igneous rock). The fiord( witch is a deep valley with water in the middle) landform can be found in the Pacific Maritime.They were formed by retreating glaciers and now have very steep sides. Major landform that can be found in this region are lush forest, there are alot of forest lands it this area some are very hard to acess. Half of this eco zone is made up of forested area.smaller landform reigons inculde, beaches along the ocean , flat plains on the Fraser Delta. There are large glaciers on the North Coast.

__Rocks And Minerals__  Estevan Coastal Plain is a long narrow strip of rocky coastline marked by the occasional beach. the Estevan Coastal plain is found only along the west coast of Vancouver Island, this different landscape is always changing as it goes through the full brunt of the Pacific's ceaseless scouring winds and waves.

Mazes of fjords and channels cut the coastline from Vancouver to Alaska. These are classic fjords, some of the world's deepest and longest fjords are found in this landform region. They slash inland up to 190 kilometres, with sheer sides going over 2000 metres. types of rocks are: The Coast Mountains rise steeply from the fiords and channels on the coast. Glaciers are found at higher elevations. These mountains are still young, and they are not very tall. they are still extremely rugged on the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island As part of the "Ring of Fire" that surrounds the Pacific Ocean, magma's close to the surface. Hot springs are the rule instead of dangerous volcanoes
 * Igneous rocks
 * Sedimentary rocks
 * Intertidal zone

__Vegetation and Soil__  Forest ecosystems found here will vary with precipitation and elevation. In low-lying coastal areas, Western Hemlock forests control; in the higher elevations subalpine Mountain Hemlock forests are more common; and little areas of dry Douglas Fur forests are found on leeward side of the mountains. Coastal temperate rainforests are globally scarce, originally barely covering 0.2% of the earth's land area. Today, the biggest undeveloped tracts of these forests are found in South America and North America, much of which approximately 106 000 square kilometres is in the Pacific Maritime Ecozone. These forests contain ecosystems with the highest biomass per hectare on Earth. The climate in the Pacific Maritime Ecozone has allowed the most magnificent forests in the world to grow. With the union of large amounts of precipitation and mild temperatures, you are able to find several different types of trees and forests that vary with elevation and precipitation.

There are 3 main forests in this ecozone. They are: __Climate__
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Western Hemlock Forests- low-lying coastal areas
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mountain Hemlock Forests- high elevations
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Douglas fir Forests-small dry areas on the leeward side of the mountain [[image:#3.jpg width="364" height="222" caption="The lush forest of the pacific maritime "]]

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This ecozone has some of the hottest and wettest weather in Canada. Its maritime climate receives as small as 600 mm of precipitation per year. While the north is typically much wetter, receiving up to 3 000 mm. To the rest of Canada, there is little difference in monthly temperatures. Averages in July differ between 12 and 180C. In January, between 4 and 60C. The Pacific Maritime ecozone is on Canada's western coastline. Here is where you will find the tallest trees and deepest fjords in the country. Being so close to the Pacific Ocean, the climate has quiet the range in temperatures. Summers are not as warm and the winters more warm compared to other places. Summer temperatures stay around 13ºC, while winters are about -1.5ºC. The mountains act as a barrier to block most of the precipitation that clouds would bring to the area so precipitation can exceed 4000 mm a year in the north. Most areas do not get as much as that though. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__Tourism__ <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tourism is a major human activity. The Pacific Maritime Ecozone has a rare beauty and people from all around the world are drawn to it. There are many things like wilderness tours, whale watching and trips to the hot springs. There is an also more developed tourism area such as the many resorts on ski hills or on beaches, helicopter rides are even available. Totem pole making, cruise ships and barge are also available. There’s so much that can be done in the Pacific Maritime. Whether you’re enjoying the neauty of the oceans or mountains or working for a living there are a lot of fun activities that take place in this ecozone.

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<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__Fun Facts__ <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">•the fiord can be found 2000m deep and 190km Inland making them some of the deepest and longest in the world • there are a lot of different landforms in the pacific maritime ecozone overall and all of them contirbute to the amazing and mystifying effect that the pacific maritime •amazing hot spots or hot spring result of the pacific maritime being in the ring of fire•“the deepest fiord in the world is Findlayson channel, with a soundings of over 795 meters -there is less difference between winter and summer temperatures here than elsewhere in the country <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__Ecozones Future__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What draws people to the pacific maritime? Is it their wonderful hot springs, there beautiful views, or is it just every thing about it! Well if they keep up what they are doing now they could be in very big trouble. They may have breath taking views and wonderful people but that wont stop companies from ruining there luscious forests and beautiful land. Since most of the pacific maritime is made up of forests and fiods, logging industries and mining companies come in and ruin it! the logging industries just clear cut and clear cut till its gone and don't replant what the cut down and sometimes when they do it take forever to grow back, well animals did live there so when we take away their habitat the have to find new ones! Animals are very important to the ecozone. Now mining it may create many jobs and help the economy boom but in 20 years from now they will have taken all the fossil fuels they need and processed them into goods but then they will be all gone and all the will be left behind is a mess! The pacific maritime needs to think more about the future and use less in the present!

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__Sources__ "Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Pacific Maritime." Canadian Biodiversity Web Site. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. < @http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/ecozones/pacificmaritime/pacificmaritime.htm >. Landforms and Climate of the Pacific Maritime Ecozone." Ecozones.ca Home Page. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. < http://ecozones.ca/english/zone/PacificMaritime/land.html >. Natural Vegetation and Soil." Pacific Maritime Ecozone. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. < http://pacific-maritime0.tripod.com/id5.html "Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Pacific Maritime." Canadian Biodiversity Web Site. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. < http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/ecozones/pacificmaritime/pacificmaritime.htm >. Landforms and Climate of the Pacific Maritime Ecozone." Ecozones.ca Home Page. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. < http://ecozones.ca/english/zone/PacificMaritime/land.html >. Made By: Sarah Williams, Victoria Gorell and Aisling Flynn-Post