BIOL 2903 Lecture 2: lecture 2
5 Mar 2018
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Best abiotic factor in ontario = water: water can sort materials, water can crack rock open, water can move material. Erratic rock: big boulder in random spot, it is made of different rock than the rock below it and its left behind by glaciers. Rock type and lay of the land: physiographic regions. Hudson bay lowlands: one of the biggest wetlands in the world, sedimentary rocks are underneath it, turns into tundra. Great lakes - st. lawrence lowlands (ottawa st lawrence lowland is on the east, We can also break down the province into the types of trees: 2 names for it: forest regions, ecological regions. 5 ecological regions in ontario: tundra, hudson bay lowland, boreal forest, great lakes st lawrence (where ottawa is located, carolinian. The glacier weight pushed down the rocks and created the great lakes, the water originally flowed north, now it flows south, n ontario is rising.
