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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 Quebec
By: 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.
Landforms
In 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-StLawrence 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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Tundra
Taiga
Boreal Forest
Mixed Forest
Decidous forest
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.
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• Tundra is a vegetation zone associated
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• 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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• The boreal forest is the most northerly and
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• The boreal forest covers 27% of Quebec.
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• As its name implies, this vegetation zone is a
transitional one, whose ecology is shaped
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• The mixed forest zone covers 11.5% of
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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.
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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 2024 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.
Census Canada 2001
Population
Of Canada:
30,007,090
Population
Of Quebec:
7,237,480
Quebec
By:
Nadine Burgess
Ayae Komori
Jose Sandoval