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arabera Emily Pollak 5 years ago

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Halifax

Halifax features a unique mix of coniferous and deciduous trees, representing a transition zone between these two forest types. The region is part of the ancient Appalachian Mountains, which have been significantly rounded by erosion over millions of years.

Halifax

Halifax

vegitation

transition between coniferous and deciduous forests.
mixed forest contains coniferous and deciduous trees
deciduous trees
coniferous trees
halifax has mixed forest vegetation

soils

wet climate soils favor leaching meaning that water sinks down below the top layer of soils. bringing nutrients with it
the soils are thin and poor in most of the canadian shield due to rocky formation.
Halifax has wet climate soils

Main topic

climate regions

Halifax is in the atlantic maritime region.
closeness to the ocean leads to cool and humid temperature.
cool curentes from labrador meeting with the warm gulf currents mean it is often foggy in Halifax.

landform regions

thay drop directly into the atlantic ocean creating sheltered bays
the appalachians are 300 million year old mountains rounded by erosion
in the appalachians