Canada: Physical Interactions
Supporting provincial and territorial geography and social studies courses and home schooling from coast to coast to coast, including CGC-1D and CGC-1P
Interactive gSlide set with maps of Landforms, Climate, Vegetation, Permafrost, Ecozones AND Climate Graphs from across Canada.
Online Interactive gSlide set of maps, climate graphs and a profile across Canada
Canada: Relief Map (1.6mb)
(Wiki - more sizes)
Formation of North America (1:24)
Build your map-reading skills: Visit our page of Topographic Maps matched with Google Earth links
Physical Regions
Landform Regions
Physiographic Regions
Physiographic Regions (Canadian Encyclopaedia)
Natural Vegetation
Natural Vegetation Regions
Forest Regions
Geophysical, Climate and Weather Hazards
Public Weather Alerts
Current Hurricane Tracks
Most Recent Earthquakes
Canadian Disaster Database (Public Safety Canada)
Get Prepared
Preparing a Family Emergency Kit (3:46)
Hurricanes
Current Hurricane Tracks
Historical Hurricane Storm Tracks (CanadianGeographic)
When Hurricanes Track through Canada (CBC)
Earthquakes
Past Year of Earthquakes
Simplified Seismic Hazards Map
Historical Earthquakes
Mapping Canada's Biggest Earthquakes (Canadian Geographic)
‘Inevitable’ 9.0 earthquake, tsunami will hit Canada’s West Coast (GlobalNews)
How Canada is preparing for the next big earthquake (Canadian geographic)
Tornadoes
Recent Tornadoes, by Year
(U Western Ontario)
Tornadoes 1980-2009
(Provincial Maps)
Tornadoes in Southern Ontario
11 of Canada’s worst tornado events over the years (TheStar)
List of 21st-century Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks (Wiki)
Tornado Information (Canadian Red Cross)
Volcanoes
Volcanoes in Canada
Volcanoes in Canada (USask)
Volcanism of Canada (Wiki)
National Parks & Ecozones
National Parks
(High Res 6.1mb)
Ecozones (Detailed Version)
Ecological Land Classification (Wiki)
Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada Descriptions (Dated, but still accurate)
Longest Rivers
Canada: River Basins
(Decolonial Atlas)
Where terranes collide - The Geology of Western Canada (Geology: 25min)
An oldie, but very complete explanationsFormation of Canada and North America
Appalachian Highlands
Formation of the Appalachian Mountains 480mya to 270mya (EARTH Magazine)
Formation of the Appalachian Mountains with captions ( Living Earth)
Western Cordillera
Formation of the Rocky Mountains (Wiki)
More detail may be found at OpenText-BC - Western Canada during the Mesozoic
How the Rocky Mountains Formed (1:04)
Formation of British Columbia (QMI, 3:29)
Juan de Fuca Plate off Vancouver, BC, Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the USA
