GEO 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pacific Plate, Rill, Canadian Shield
4 Apr 2016
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Physical geography has distinct and unique regional patterns across canada. Physiographic regions represent one aspect of this natural diversity. Climate average weather in an area: type of climate determines the natural vegetation provide the basis for biodicersity across canada. Human activity is changing the natural environment into an urban industrial landscape (cid:1) (cid:1) Three principle types of landforms: mountains, plateaus, lowlands. These are actively shaped and reshaped by various processes: denudation. Wind or rainfall breakdown mountain: weatering. Canadian shield: the largest physiographic region in canada. Cordillera: a complex region of mountains, plateaus, and valleys tha occupy 16% of canada. Located in the ring of fire: north-south alignment extends from southern bc to. Yukon western border is pacific ocean: the rocky mountians are the best known of the mountain ranges, formed mainly by plate tectonics and forms plateaus. Most elevations are between 3000-4000 with the.
