Geography 2011A/B Lecture 2: 2 Great Lakes Introduction

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2011A/B
• Professor: Wendy Dickinson

Document Summary

In canada, water is very common: water is a shared resource no one owns it so it"s not treated, lose sight of its value when its everywhere, common property, value land much more than water. Ignore water except floods or drought or when it makes us sick. 250 great lakes world-wide some of these lakes are shrinking. 1/3 in canada: great lake = lake over 500km2, great lakes - 20% of fresh surface water in the world, laurentian great lakes, superior, huron, michigan, erie, ontario. Watershed: area in which all the rivers will flow into the lakes. 764,051 square kilometres: everything that happens on land in the watershed will impact the gl"s. Drainage: west to east: lake superior and lake michigan, east through lake huron, lake st. clair, lake erie, niagara falls, lake. Ontario, to the st. lawrence and atlantic ocean.