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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. 66 EMC 3714 • Daily Geography Practice, Grade 5 ©2004 by Evan-Moor Corp.