GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mesozoic, Glacial Striation, Köppen Climate Classification
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Overview: the geological structure, origins and characteristics of canada"s physical base and its even physiographic region. Canada"s physical geography varies across the country. Physiographic regions represent only one aspect of natural diversity. The physiographic regions of canada represent large areas of canada where the regions looks similar. This provides a broad and simple framework of canada"s physical. A physiographic region has three characteristics: it extends over a large, contiguous area with similar relief features, the landforms have been shaped by the same geographic things, has a common geographic history and structure. Relief: the measure of land from perspective of sea level. Longitude the distance east and west of the prime meridian (zero longitude) Latitude the distance north and south of the equator (zero latitude) Canada lies between the 42nd and 82nd parallel. Glacier facts: subjected to glacial erosions which is the land being torn up by a moving glacier.
