Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glacier, John Palliser, Dynamic Equilibrium
23 Mar 2018
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Vegetation in canada: most vegetation in canada is not natural - instead, it has been introduced through agriculture and human activity, major natural vegetation types on canada: forest, grasslands, tundra. Types of vegetation: forest, deciduous forests are composed of trees that lose their leaves each winter (ex. broadleaf forest, carolinian forest southern ontario, coniferous forests are composed of evergreen trees (ex. Figure 1: risks from permafrost melting can cause roads and railways to buckle and buildings to fracture. Types of canadian soil: cryosolic soil, found north of the tree line; where the mean annual temperature is below. Drainage basins: every river has a drainage basin (the area of surrounding land that is drained by that river, drainage basins can also be defined for lakes. British columbia-alberta border (see red below: major divides form part of the bc/alberta border and part of the quebec/labrador border, drainage basins as open systems .
