GEO 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecumene, Gete, Snowbelt
13 Oct 2016
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Physical geography helps us understand the regional nature of our world. Cataclysmic - paroxysmal or apocalyptic: emmanuel whewell. Physical geography poses an underlying framework that molds canada"s national and regional character. Physical variations within canada: the nature of landforms, physiographic regions, geographic location, climate, major drainage basins, environmental challenges, canada and global warming. Physical geography has distinct and unique regional patterns across canada. Physiographic regions represent one aspect of this natural diversity. Climate, soils, and natural vegetation provide the basis for biodiversity across canada. Human activity is changing the natural environment into an urban industrial landscape. Three principal types of landforms: mountains, plateaus, lowlands. These are actively shaped and reshaped by various processes: denudation, weathering, erosion splash, rill, and gulley grooves tunnels, deposition. Canada has 7 physiographic regions: the canadian shield, the cordillera, the interior plains, the hudson bay lowlands, the arctic lands, the appalachian uplands, the great lakes st lawrence lowlands.
