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Maptour: Canada's Ecological Regions ca 1500 CE

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Looking at Where You Live

Try This:

Keep open the map "Ecological Regions ca 1500 CE."
On the ZOOM/PAN toolbar, click on "FULL" to zoom out to all of Canada.
Under LAYER CONTROLS, turn on the checkboxes for "Modern Geography" and "Section Labels;" turn off "Division Labels."
Use the Zoom in tool to zoom in as closely as possible to the city, town or rural area where you live.
On the DATA SELECT toolbar, click on the Identify tool and then click on the map at the place where you live.

A box opens, giving you the ecological description of the region where you live: Domain, Division, (Ecological) Province, Section.


	Try This: Close the pop-up box. On the DATA SELECT toolbar, click on the Table tool and then use the cursor on the map to drag a rectangle over several ecological regions.

	Notice ... A table box opens, naming all the ecological subdivisions in your selected sample. The boundaries of the selected ecological subdivisions are individually highlighted on the map. (You may have to drag the table box aside to see your chosen area.)

	Consider! Chances are high that you would have a greater struggle to live off your local land today than First Nations peoples would have had five centuries ago.

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