Taiga Sheild

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the population of the taiga shield is about 340,000 people. 60% is aboriginal, the population is made up of a few settlements. the location of which largely reflects the history of recent colonisation. the most popular actives are hunting, fishing and trapping. tourism is also pretty big because of the huge variaty of animal and plants and the site seeing

some of the rocks and landforms there are Sedimentary rock
Whaleback
Glacial erratic
Frost cracking
Volcanic rock
Glacial groove
Glacial striations
Chattermarks
Granitic rock

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The world's oldest rocks are found on the Taiga Shield in the Great Slave Lake. they were made near the beginning off earth about 4 billion years ago when the earth was only 500 million year old

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of the shield is -24.5oC while the eastern part experiences slightly warmer winters with the average temperature at -11oC. The annual summers in northeast Quebec ranges from 5.5oCn to 11oC

all the plants in the taiga shield are categorised into 4 main parts/habitats, wet lands, shrublands meadows and open forests. the most common plant there is trees, there are lots of species there of trees including spuce, balsam fir, trembling aspen, balsam poplar and white brich. these speices of tree are found along rivers and streams, it can also be found on uplands. some more plants are Cat tail

Water Parsnip
Water Smartweed
Water Horsetail
Marsh Five-finger
Willow
Ground Juniper

Dwarf Birch

Sweet Gale
Green Alder
Paper Birch
Black Spruce
Labrador Tea

Wild Rose

Bald Eagle

Pacific Loon

Beaver

Muskrat

Mew Gull

Wood Frog

Marten

Black Bear

Wolf

Red Squirrel

Spruce Grouse

Bald Eagle

Beaver

Red-winged Blackbird

Muskrat

Mew Gull

Wood Frog

Common Redpoll

White-crowned Sparrow

Marten

Black Bear

Wolf

Dragonfly

Red Squirrel