GEOG306 Lecture 8: Lecture 02
8 May 2019
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Challenges for environmental planning, engineering and management: change, only constant thing i. e. climate change, complexity, systems we look at are complex, uncertainty. In terms of how things like weather systems will behave: conflict, risk. Increased demand for land, water, biological and energy resources: need to protect threatened environments, maintain and improve human life. Because you can quantify water in, water storage, and water out. Physiographic regions: defined by composite patterns of the main elements of the landscape. Western cordillera: as the airmasses move west to east, there is a lot of rain, back areas are dry, almost considered deserts because precipitation is less than 2mm a year. Subduction, sea-floor spreading, orogenesis: oceanic ridge where the crust separates. Interior plains: rolling terrain, two large provinces: central lowlands and the great plains; small province: st. Great lakes st. lawrence lowlands: deciduous and coniferous trees. Present day distribution of end moraines in southern ontario.
