WHAT IS IT? BY COURTNEY

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1 MIXEDWOOD PLAINS

2 WHAT IS IT? BY COURTNEY The Mixedwood Plains is located in the southern most region of Canada. The plains include magnificent places such as Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City. These are all well known developed cities and are an amazing place to visit or live in. The maritime climate of the Mixedwood Plains permits for "...moderate to relatively high precipitation. The mild climate allows for relatively long, warm summers and cool winters," which results in long growing seasons.

3 WHAT IS IT 2 The landform of the Mixedwood Plains has been shaped by glaciations during the Ice Age, which tremendously affected the outcome topography of the landform. The Mixedwood Plains wide diversity in wildlife is one of the most outstanding features of the entire ecozone; there are animals from the Red Headed Woodpecker to the White Tailed Deer within the ecozone.

4 WHAT IS IT 3 Most of these animals inhabit the protected greenbelt within the Mixedwood Plains region. The vegetation of the Plains is well known for their wide assortment of trees. There are a range of tree types within this region such as; the Red Pine, Sugar Maple, Basswood, Red Oak and Eastern Hemlock.

5 WHAT IS IT 4 The Mixedwood Plains will provide the entire family with fun and exciting activities to do, such as, site-seeing, fishing, amusement parks and numerous other activities, which will help you say active and outdoors. Most of the activities consist of going outdoors and exploring the land.

6 WHAT IS IT 5 If you are one of the people who like to kick it back and relax on vacations you can visit a nearby spa or salon, or you can walk along the shoreline of Lake Ontario, in your bare feet and watch the sun go down. Sounds relaxing and adventurous doesn t it!

7 NATURAL VEGETATION IN THE ECOZONE BY MASON Most of the forest that were there are now gone, they got cut down for urban development. There still are some heavily forested areas that remain along lakeshores. Before the development the area there were thick green forests which includes white pines, red pine, hemlock, black spruce, eastern red cedar as well as a abundance of deciduous trees like sugar maple, red oak, and white elm.

8 NATURAL VEGETATION 2 The mixed wood Ecozone is near large bodies of water- the Great Lakes. Warm air coming form the Gulf of Mexico creates a relatively mild atmosphere for the plants. The soil in the mixed wood plains is extremely fertile and productive. Conditions vary in different places in the mixed wood plain but these varying conditions also create diversity in these Canadian plants.

9 NATURAL VEGETATION 3 Some other trees in this Ecozone is walnut, butternut, eastern cottonwood, balsam popular, basswood, black ash and blue ash. Finally, some types of tulip trees, sycamore, shagbark hickory, bitternut hickory, red mulberry and the Kentucky coffee-tree could only be found in southern regions where the weather is warmer.

10 NATURAL VEGETATION 4 Apart from the trees, there are also several types of fauna and wildflowers in the Mixedwood plains. The remaining wetlands in the Mixedwood plains are home to several types of exotic plants. Clovers, golden rod s, and wild raspberry are some common wild flowers found in the Mixedwood plains.

11 WILDLIFE BY PATRICK A large amount of animals are found in the Mixedwood plains. Wildlife can be from chipmunks, squirrels and raccoons and even to black bears. Deer's can also be found in the wild. There s more than hundreds of species of birds, fish, reptiles, and mammals that can be found in the Mixedwood plains.

12 WILDLIFE 2 The fish was one of the mean reasons that lured our Canadian ancestors into the Mixedwood plains region. The great lakes and other separate rivers witch provided water transportation. The lakes had many fish like the lake trout. The whitefish, and the sturgeon live on the bottom of the lake. If you over fish in these lakes you could damage number of fish and the different types of fish in this lake.

13 WILDLIFE 3 There are a few species of birds in Canada. Most of them you can see in your backyard but some birds are very rare. The birds of prey like the Red-shoulder hawk, screech owl, and the copper s hawk, do not like the city environment. That s why not very many of them are found in Canada. The Canada goose, several types of herons, ducks, and the mallard are some of the species of waterfowl. That is types of birds that live in water. These birds live in the wetlands of Mixedwoods plains.

14 PEOPLE LIVING IN THE ECOZONE BY RAEL Native communities, including the Mohawk, Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Cree, inhabited the favoured Mixedwood Plains long before European settlement. The earliest French arrivals, also recognizing the St. Lawrence River's many advantages, established themselves along the shoreline at Quebec City in 1608, Trois-Rivières in 1634, and Montreal in British settlers founded the towns of Niagara, Hamilton, and Toronto in Upper Canada during the mid-18th century.

15 PEOPLE PRESENT people are located here. Population density is over 100 persons per square kilometer 10 times higher than anywhere else in Canada. Ontario s population accounts for 38 percent of the Canadian total. More than 93 percent of the province s 12 million people live in the Mixedwood Plains. Quebec has 24 percent of Canada s population. About 80 percent of the province s population is concentrated in three centres: Montréal, Québec, and Trois-Rivières, all of which lie in the Mixedwood Plains.

16 PEOPLE PRESENT 3 Most human activities in the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone, both past and present, are associated with urbanization. Containing 52% of Canada's 1991 population, it is the most densely populated ecozone in the country. Of the nation's 25 largest cities, 13 fall within the ecozone. The largest -- Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec City -- are connected by extensive networks of expressways..

17 PEOPLE PRESENT 4 Between 1966 and 1991, Toronto's population grew by 80%, and the Toronto metropolitan area now houses 14% of all Canadians, compared with 11.5% living in the Montreal area. Even though 85% of residents live in urban areas, settlement patterns have changed from the traditional compact, centralized city to new suburbs spreading into surrounding countryside.

18 PEOPLE PRESENT 5 Smaller cities are no exception. Kitchener-Waterloo, for example, grew by 57% between 1971 and Several outlying municipalities north and east of Montreal, such as St-Lazare and Blainville, also grew by over 40% from 1986 to Home to 11 million people in 1971, the entire ecozone supported 14 million just two decades later.

19 HUMAN SYSTEMS PRESENT BY REGINA AND HOLLY The Mixedwood plains ecozone is one of the most productive ecozone in Canada. Rapid urbanization made the vast forests that once used to be thriving in the Mixedwood plains, into residential, commercial and industrial regions for humans to live on. Some of the human systems are Cityscape, Power Station, Tourism, Shipping,Forestry,Farming,Transportation,Orchard, Vineyard.

20 HUMAN SYSTEMS PRESENT 2 Primary, secondary, and tertiary industries are thriving in the Mixedwood plains. The Mixedwood plains ecozone offers great land for agriculture. Much of the land is more than suitable for growing. Areas near the Niagara Fall provide the best land for growing fruit. The area is also rich in Manufacturing industry such as car factories, power plants and food production.

21 HUMAN SYSTEMS: TOURISM Tourism and recreation continue to strengthen the Mixedwood Plains' economy. The spectacular Niagara Falls, CN Tower in Toronto, and the historic cities of Montreal and Quebec are a few of the many popular tourist attractions. Numerous northern communities, once heavily dependent on logging and mining, have turned to tourism for additional sources of revenue.

22 Cottage development along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence shorelines has intensified as urban residents spend more of their leisure time beyond city limits. Marinas, resorts, and restaurants are now common sites in the countryside

23 TOURISM 2 The Mixedwood Plains ecozone is the most popular for tourism, especially in the summer months. People from all over Canada come to these cities to enjoy the restaurants, sports teams, theatre, shows, hotels, shopping, the CN Tower, Niagara Falls, canoeing and hiking. Also, in the winter time, many tourists come to this ecozone to do winter sports such as skiing and snowboarding.

24 HUMAN SYSTEMS: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY The ecozone provides 34% of Canada's resource-based employment, and half of that number work in the agriculture and food industry. The ecozone's service industry, constituting a third of the labor force, is immensely important to national and international trade and commerce. Oil refineries, power-line corridors and industrial parks dotting vast tracts of the landscape are evidence of the ecozone's dominant service and manufacturing industries.

25 HUMAN SYSTEMS: ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS The Niagara Peninsula, famous for its fruit orchards and vineyards, is the warmest and most intensively cultivated part of the ecozone. Corn, soybeans, and specialty crops such as tobacco and vegetables are concentrated in southern regions enjoying to growing degree days. The cultivation of mixed grains also enhances hog, dairy, and beef livestock production throughout the ecozone. Today, urban expansion is the primary reason for loss of prime agricultural land.

26 HUMAN SYSTEMS: TRANSPORTATION Interlaced with national and international transportation routes, the Mixedwood Plains have become the industrial and commercial heartland of Canada. The flat land of the Mixedwood Plains is excellent for large transportation routes like QEW that links Buffalo, New York and the Niagara Peninsula with Toronto, Ontario Highway 401 which is the backbone of Quebec City-Winsor Corridor, and the 407 Express Toll Route which is a privately operated 400-series Highway and tollway in Ontario.

27 TRANSPORTATION 2 No other region in Canada can match southern Ontario s advantages favourable to industry: a large labour force and consumer market, proximity to the United States, abundant supplies of raw materials and energy, and superior rail, road, and water transportation links. Toronto, with its many investment and insurance companies, and its bank and corporate head offices, is the city with the most diversified industrial base.

28 HUMAN SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGY Southern Quebec boasts a strong, diversified industrial base, with Montréal dominating high-technology fields such as aerospace, biotechnology, fiber optics, and computers. Quebec s industries also excel in clothing design and manufacturing, metal refining, printing, textiles, and transport equipment.

29 THE THREATS BY MATTHEW BREEN 1. logging land clearing for farming not much forest left They are trying to maintain biodiversity and long term ecosystems by a gradual replacement of broad leaf ecosystems by Mixedwood then soft wood species 2. 90% of wetlands cleared They are making conservation agreement with the government to make more protected areas for halenitats. For example to restore wetland to condition that better supports wildlife like birds they are encouraging farmers to plant winter wheat crop to help feed nesting birds in winter. 3. more land cleared as cities grow They are doing more urban forestry this is where they tree in and around cities this includes parks and in people gardens, they want people to plant many types of trees so this help make habitats for different animals.