Geography 2011A/B Lecture 1: Lecture 1 - Physical Geography
11 Jan 2018
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Iroquois word for lake ontario (cid:862) parkli(cid:374)g water(cid:863) (cid:862)ro(cid:272)ks ta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:271)y the water(cid:863) also an native word. 1867 ont became one of 4 provinces to form dominion of canada (called upper canada before?) 2nd largest province by area for map quiz, put london on thames river. Ontario lies (predominantly) in 2 natural regions: Everything befroe red line flows to st lawrence. Last glaciation hit ontario all the way down. Some ppl call it boreal shield because it has boreal forest on it further south you only get ever green trees. High mountains eroded down to rocky ridges. Water and ice eroded this rock down. Thousands of lakes -- result of glaciation over million years. Massive ice sheets scoured and gouged the earth = changing drainage patterns. Glaciers scraped the soil from the rocks. Glaciers made holes, then water melted and filled holes. Since the last ice age ended -- 15,000 years ago in southern ontario, but only.
