Regional Project:Quebec

By:

Nadine Burgess

Ayae Kormori

Jose Sandoval

Table Of Contents:

1) Climate Change

2) Soils

3) Landforms

4) Vegetation

5) Population

Climate Change

In Quebec

By:Nadine Burgess

Timeline

• Quebec had experienced a warming trend until the early 1940s.

• Slight cooling until the mid 1970s.• A period of dramatic warming

throughout the 1980s.• Since the 1980s, it has been reported

the warmest 10 years of the century.

Natural Disasters.

- The twentieth century was the warmest century in 1200 years. 1998 and 1999 are the warmest years on record.

- Flooding occur most frequently in the southern most part of the province. Recent disasters in Quebec could just be natural phenomena, but it also could have something to do with the global warming that is going on in our earth. Studies show this is very possible.

- The earth is warming up faster than any other time during the past 10,000 years, Quebec is also included in this calculation.

Climate Change Causes Health Issues.

- There could be health issues to go along with the climate change including things like heat stress, due to severe and reacuring heat waves.

-Respiratory disorders could occur due to worse allergy’s because of more humid conditions and declining air quality.

Soil In QuebecBy: Ayae Komori

Gleysolic Soils

This soil is also leeched as well, because the A- Horizon is small. As you can see, this is similar to podozolic soils, but lighter. These types of soils don’t have a lot of nutrients. This is found in the southern most part of Quebec.

Luviselle Soils

These soils are the soils that are full of nutrients. This is leached with the clay materials. These soils are found in northeastern end of the Quebec.

LandformsIn Quebec

By: Ayae Komori

Landforms

In Quebec, most of the land is the Canadian Shield, Great lakes, Arctic and Hudson’s Bay Lowlands and a little bit of the Appalachians. Up in the northwest side of the Quebec, there is eastern tip of the Hudson Bay Lowlands. For the most part the landform in Quebec is the Canadian Shield. On the southeastern side, we have the Great Lakes-St-Lawrence lands. There is St. Lawrence River connected to lake Ontario, so it is called the Great lakes-St.-Lawrence lowlands. Also on the southeastern side, we have the Appalachian Mountains. These are the high lands.

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Vegetation In Quebec

By: Jose Sandoval

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Natural Vegetation:• Due to both the geology of the province

and its different climates, a number of broad vegetation zones in Quebec have been classified. The zones, listed in order from the most northern to the most southern, are:Tundra, Taiga, Boreal forest, Mixed forest, and the Deciduous forest.

Tundra

Taiga

Boreal Forest

Mixed Forest

Decidous forest

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Tundra in Quebec

• Tundra covers about 24% of Quebec.

• The vegetation here endures the harshest of climates, the annual mean temperature in this zone is only -8 ｡ C.

• Tundra is a vegetation zone associated with arctic and alpine areas of the Canadian Shield.

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Taiga in Quebec

• Taiga covers about 20% of Quebec's total area• The Taiga climate in Quebec has: peat bogs and

rocky plateaus covered in lichens and dotted by stands of scrubby black spruce.

• taiga is associated with subarctic regions of the Canadian Shield and is characterized by a greater number of both plants and animals.

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Boreal forest in Quebec

• The boreal forest is the most northerly and abundant of Quebec's three forest zones and straddles the Canadian Shield and upper Lowlands regions of the province.

• The boreal forest covers 27% of Quebec.• The ecology of this zone is heavily influenced

by fire disturbance regimes, meaning that forest fires are extremely important in defining the numbers of, and relationships between, living organisms in this zone.

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Mixed Forest in Quebec

• As its name implies, this vegetation zone is a transitional one, whose ecology is shaped largely by both fire and insect disturbance regimes.

• The mixed forest zone covers 11.5% of Quebec and characteristic of the forests of the Laurentians, Appalachians and eastern lowlands.

• Inhabitants include beaver, black bear and moose.

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• Because of the climate, this zone has the highest diversity of species, numbering over 1600 vascular plants and 440 vertebrates.

• The deciduous zone covers 6.6% of Quebec.• Most of Quebec's population live in this vegetation

zone, almost all of them along the banks of the St. Lawrence river. Wildlife associated with this zone include the sugar maple, white-tailed deer and the raccoon

Population In Quebec

By: Nadine Burgess

Population Pyramid In Quebec

• Baby Boom- The baby boomers are about in the age 40-44 in the province of Quebec.

• Baby Bust- This happened between ages 30-34 and 20-24.

• Baby Echo- This occurred between 20-24 and 10-14

Population Density

• There is kind of a trend that is followed all throughout the country of Canada, the majority of the population, is near the US border.

• This is true for Quebec, and there is not a huge amount of people in the north of Quebec just like the rest of Canada.

Population Of Canada:30,007,090

Population Of Quebec:

7,237,480

Census Canada 2001

Quebec

By:

Nadine Burgess

Ayae Komori

Jose Sandoval