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Nunavut and its environmental

attributesNunavut is a place where not very

much exists. It is in the north, where only ice, snow, and small shrubs exist. In this PowerPoint I

will show you what Nunavut is like in more detail. Starting with some

information about it’s climate

Coppermine Climate Info

Copperminemonths Precipitation TempratureJ 12 -29F 8 -30M 13 -26A 10 -17M 12 -6J 20 3Ju 34 9A 44 8S 28 3O 26 -7N 15 -20D 11 -26

Baker Lake Climate Info

Baker LakeJ 7.5 -32.3F 7.2 -31.5M 10.5 -27.2A 13.6 -17.4M 15.6 -5.8J 24.1 4.9Ju 41.8 11.4A 47 9.5S 44.1 2.6O 32.1 -7.5N 17 -20.1D 10.2 -28.4

Yellowknife Climate Info

YellowknifeJ 0 -26.8F 0 -23.4M 0.2 -17.3A 2.4 -5.3M 14.5 5.6J 26.9 13.5Ju 35 16.8A 40.9 14.2S 29.5 7.1O 14.7 -1.7N 0.2 -13.8D 0.2 -23.7

• Now I know that you’re looking at this information and saying “what is this” So lets make it clearer with some Climate graphs.

Climate Graph of Coppermine

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• As you can see, Nunavut doesn’t get a lot of rain, most of it is snow, since it is up north. As for it’s climate, it doesn’t go very high above 10º celsius. Proving yet again how cold Nunavut. Apart from the summer, it’s temperature is mostly below 0º.

• This concludes the climate part of the project, now to move on to the landform part.

Nunavut’s Landforms

• Nunavut is part of 3 different landforms.

• The inuitian mountains, the arctic lowlands, and part of the canadian shield.

• Nunavut is mostly the arctic lowlands, where it is mostly snow and ice.

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In the 1st picture, this shows the type of terrain in very deep Nunavut, as you can see, it’s all ice. In the 2nd picture, were not as deep anymore, around the middle, and in the 3rd picture were around the border, of the tundra landform.

• What is tundra?What is tundra?• The word comes from “tundar” meaning treeless

plain. Tundra is characterized by treeless areas, dwarfed shrubs and miniature wildflowers adapted to a short growing season. The Northwest Territories can be divided into two main tundra vegetation regions. Arctic Tundra and Taiga and Coniferous forest. In all of these types of tundra there are at least 834 different flowering plants that grow in the Northwest Territories but the main vegetation is grasses, mosses and lichens.

http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/parks/education/p_t/trees_shrubs.htm

http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/parks/education/u_z/wildflowers.htm

• Arctic TundraArctic Tundra

• The arctic is basically like a desert with no trees, until it comes to the tree line more southerly. Arctic tundra covers about half of the mainland area of the North West Territories and all the islands in the arctic that lie in the arctic zone. The vegetation here is mosses, lichens, dwarfed shrubs where it is extremely cold.













Dwarf Birch Lichens

Cushion Plants Moss Trees and

shrubs in Mackenzie Valley

Taiga (Coniferous) ForestTaiga (Coniferous) Forest

• Taiga forest is located south of the tundra. Fir and spruce trees grow well here and are the starting line of the tree line. Taiga forest occupies a lot of Canada, but not most of the North West Territories, as seen below. There are bogs and marshes, these are there because its wet and rainy year around. The main trees there are pine, fir, and spruce which branches are broken off from the snow







Northerly Taiga Southerly

Taiga

Population of Northwest territory By: Ryan Josefchak

Yellowknife is the capital of Canada’s North West territories and the only city in the territory, with a population of just under 20,000 as of 2006. Located on the north shore of Great Slave Lake on the west side of Yellowknife bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River, Yellowknife and its surrounding bodies of water were named after the copper knives used by the local Chipewyan and Dene who moved into the area in the early 1800s. Of the eight offi cial languages of the Northwest Territories, fi ve are spoken in signifi cant numbers in Yellowknife: Chipewyan,Dogrib.South and NIOrth Slavey English/French

About the population -population - about 43,000 people (2005) -Almost half are aboriginal (Dene, Inuvialuit and Metis) -Others have come from other parts of Canada. -The largest community is the city of Yellowknife (the capital), population 20,000. -Other communities include Hay River, Fort Smith and Inuvik. -Most people are living in the Mackenzie River Valley

History of the population -The first people were the Dene and the Inuit. -Dene lived along the Mackenzie Valley ten thousand years ago. -The first Inuit may have crossed the Bering Strait about five thousand years ago. -Am explorer named Martin Frobisher came in 1576. -Alexander Mackenzie discovered the Mackenzie River in 1789. -Fur trading posts were built along the river. -Communities grew around the trading posts. -Yukon, Nunavut, Alberta, Saskatchewan, parts of Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec were once part of the N.W.T. -In 1870 the area became Canada's first territory

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