Download A Physical Map: Canada

Skill: Physical Features
Essential Element 2: Standard 4
A Physical Map: Canada
Introducing the Map
Share with students the definition of a physical map. Have students nam.
a few typical landforms and waterways that are shown on a physical map.
ANSWER KEY
Monday
1. Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific
2. Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay
Tuesday
1. Great Lakes and St.
Lawrence River
2. western part of Canada;
Coastal Ranges and the Rocky
Mountains
Wednesday
1. Mount Logan; 19,524 feet
(5,951 m)
2. Great Slave Lake to the
Beaufort Sea
Thursday
1. Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, into
the Labrador Sea
2. a narrow channel
connecting two bodies of water;
Davis Strait and Hudson Strait
Friday
1. Hudson Bay
2. Canadian Shield and
Interior Plains
Challenge
Students should label Alaska,
Greenland, and the United States.
The Great Lakes are Lake Superior,
Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake
Erie, and Lake Ontario.
Show students the physical map of Canada. Have students name the
mountain ranges, as well as Mount Logan, the highest peak. Talk about
the waterways shown on the map as well. Then discuss the two large lane
regions of the Interior Plains and the Canadian Shield. Tell students the
Interior Plains run north and south, east of the mountain ranges. The
southern part of the region is mostly grasslands. Lakes and forests cover
the northern area. Near the Arctic Ocean, the forests give way to tundra,
which is covered with snow for more than half of the year.
The Canadian Shield region is made up of ancient rock that curves
around the Hudson Bay. It actually covers about half of Canada. The
southern part of the shield is thick with forests, and the northern part
is tundra.
Share more facts about the country. Tell them Canada is the
second-largest country in the world in area. Only Russia covers more
land. Canada is slightly larger than the United States.
Also talk about the relative location of Canada within the continent of
North America. Students will notice that Alaska actually borders Canada.
Also, talk about how the large island of Greenland shares Baffin Bay with
Canada, but that it actually belongs to the country of Denmark.
Introducing Vocabulary
Canadian Shield U-shaped
region of ancient rock that curves
around the Hudson Bay; southern part of shield is thick with
forests; northern part is tundra
channel a body of water joining two larger bodies of water
elevation
height above sea level
landform natural land feature on Earth's surface, such as mountain
or hill
mountain range a chain of mountains
physical features natural landforms
and waterways on Earth's
surface
physical map a map that shows natural landforms
and water on
Earth's surface
plains a broad area of flat, open land
shield a land region formed by ancient rock
strait a narrow channel connecting
two bodies of water
tundra an arctic plain that remains frozen except for the ground just
at the surface. Mosses and small shrubs are the only kinds of plants
that grow there.
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EMC 3714 • Daily Geography Practice, Grade 5
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