Canada's Ecozones

• Atlantic Martime = hills and coastal plains: long mild winters, moderately warm summers: Coniferous mixed with decidious forest
• Pacific Martime = Mountains with areas of coastal plains: mild winters, cool summers: Varies with elevation, coniferous trees
• Boreal Shield = plains and low hills of Canadian shield: long winters short summers: coniferous mixed with deciduous
• Taiga Shield = Plains and low hills of Canadian shield: moderately long winters, moderately short summers: Black spruce, Jack spine, paper birch, trembling aspen
• Northern Arctic Ecozone = Plains and upland areas: long winters, short summers: Tundra ground hugging plants
• Southern Arctic Ecozone = Plains and hills of Canadian Shield: Long winters, Short summers (dry percipitation): Tundry including shrubs
• Prairie = Flat to rolling plains + Moderately long, cold Winters, Moderately warm summers + short grass (dry) long grass (wet)
• Mixedwood plains = plains, rolling hills, Great lakes + short winters, long summers + Coniferous, little vegetation remains
• Boreal plains = level to gently rolling plains + long cold winters, short warm summers, Coniferous forests, Deciduous, and Marsh
• Taiga plains = interior plains and some foot-hills + Long cold winters, short cool summers + Open dense forest
• Hudson plains = low-lying, swampy plains + long cold winters, short cool summers + Ground-hugging tundra, dense forest in south
• Montane Cordillera = Mountains, plains, plateaus + Varies with latitude and elevation + Enourmous variation depending on elevation (coniferous)
• Boreal Cordillera = Mountainous, some hills + long cold winters short cool summers (dry) + Mainly coniferous
• Taiga Cordillera = Mountainous + long cold winters, short cool summers (dry) + tundra, scattered forests
• Arctic Cordillera +Innuitian mountains + Long winters, short summers + Mostly no vegetation, Tundra