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**Mixed wood Plains**

**Table of contents**
 * **Map of Ecozone**
 * **Introduction**
 * **Landform Region**
 * **Rocks and Minerals**
 * **Vegetation and Soil**
 * **Climate and Climograph**
 * **Fun Facts**
 * **Trivia**
 * **Sources**

=__**Introduction**__=

Mixed wood plains is the smallest of all the ecozones, home to half of Canada's population and is one of the major storm tracks of North America but is a great place to live.

=__**Landform Region**__=

The mixed wood plains are mostly rolling hills and has 9% of Canada's lands. The rolling hills are formed from glaciation. The glaciers carried huge amounts of material and dumped them through out the region. The great lakes were gouged out by those glaciers and the St. Lawrence Lowland was formed by faulting, this rift valley was flooded toward the end of the last ice age by a part of the Champion Sea.

=__**Rocks and Minerals**__= The rocks of the canadian sheild cover two-thirds of Ontario and host many mineral deposits. Younger sedimentary rocks also have valuable minerals and glacial deposits are another important source of mineral riches. Ontario is the world's second largest producer of nickel. The province is also a significant producer of gold, copper, zinc, The sedimentary rocks of the south are also the site of Ontario's oil and gas industry.

=__**Vegetation and soil**__=

In the mixed wood plains there are plenty of coniferous trees like white pine, eastern hemlock, and red pine. There is also a mix of deciduous tress like sugar maple, red oak and basswood. Both of these types of trees can last all year long. This mix of trees provide and excellent resource for lumbering businesses.

=**__Climate and Climograph__**=

In the mixed wood plains there are warm summer and relativly cold winters. Warm Gulf air travels up toward this region where there is an abundant precipitation. the jet streams are warm travelling right bellow the region but in winter the warm jet steam hits toronto. Rain and snow are generally found here.

=__Fun Facts__=
 * 1) The vegatation of the plains is well know for it assortment of trees
 * 2) Ontario's southernmost ecozone, occupying less than 10% of the province
 * 3) The mixedwooed plains have mamlas such as White-tailed Deer, Southern Flying Squirrel, Red Fox, Raccoon, Striped Skunk, Beaver, Gray Squirrel
 * 4) It is the smallest ecozone in Canada

=__Trivia__=


 * 1) How was the St. Lawrence lowland formed?
 * 2) What are the summers like in the Mixedwood plains?
 * 3) What kind of coniferous trees are in the Mixedwood plains?
 * 4) What do the sedimentary rocks of the south produce?
 * 5) What percent of the Mixedwood plains is rolling hills?

=__**Sources**__=
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3)http://www.ontario.ca/en/about_ontario/004467 4)making connections canadas geography text book

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