Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Point Pelee National Park, Manitoulin Island, Canadian Shield

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

Document Summary

Water: in canada, water is very common lose sight of its value. Tragedy of commons no personal value, degrades over time cause no one takes care common property value land much more than water ignore water except floods or drought. Great lake = lake over 500 km2. Our 5: laurentian great lakes (canadian plateau/shield) The (cid:862)g(cid:396)eat(cid:863) is a(cid:271)out size i(cid:374) a(cid:396)ea (cid:374)ot (cid:448)ou(cid:373)e, (cid:374)ot (cid:395)uality. Watershed/basin: area surrounding the lakes = high points. Lake superior and lake michigan, join to east through lake huron, lake st. clair, Lake erie, lake ontario, to the st. lawrence and atlantic ocean: drain from west to east. Lake erie is outlier cause so shallow and smacked down with all of us in south ontario where we impact it. Some ppl include st lawrence river, but in this course we are leaving it out. All this land around it is the basin. Lake huron and erie have pipeline which brings water to london on.