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Viewed from an elevated location, the landscape presents an even horizon interrupted by rounded or flat-topped ranges of hills. Along the eastern coast, the relief is generally high. The region is divided into a northern insular part and a southern mainland part.
27 lut 2012 · Canada has seven physiographic regions. These regions are the Canadian Shield, the Western Cordillera, the Canadian Arctic, the Appalachian Region, the Interior Plains, the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the St. Lawrence Lowlands.
Long Point is a 40-km long sand spit on the north shore of Lake Erie. The longest spit in Canada, Long Point is the best surviving example of a wetlands and dune ecosystem in the Great Lakes basin.
With approximately 200,000 km2 of glacier coverage in the Arctic and the West, Canada is home to a significant percentage of the world’s glaciers. By 2100, however, scientists predict that those in Alberta and British Columbia will have lost 70 per cent of their 2005 volume due to climate change.
The world's second-largest country in land area (3,851,809 square miles), Canada is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the northeast by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the U.S., and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska.
23 wrz 2022 · The Candian Shield is a large region in Canada that covers almost half of the country. It stretches over multiple provinces/territories such as Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Sasketchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories. This region formed around 3 billion years ago.
Canada's East Coast evokes rich images of natural and cultural features along the Atlantic Ocean... Canada's Arctic extends from the tree line, through the Arctic Islands, to the North Pole... This is a landscape dominated by massive rivers, as well as forests and fertile agricultural lands...
