Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Polar Regions Of Earth, Point Pelee National Park, Welland Canal
6 Mar 2018
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Lose sight of its value: common property, value land much more than water. Ignore water except floods or drought easy to take for granted. Great lakes: great lake = a lake over 500 km2 in size, gl are getting smaller, called great because. 1/3 in canada it is about the size not the quality: beige area is the gl basin (watershed) There is an agreement that we wo(cid:374)"t export water outside the basin. Lake huron cleans and distributes to homes and get filtered and put into lake erie. Population distribution focused on southern portions of the lakes. Superior, huron, michigan, erie, ontario: the 5 are called this because they are on the laurentian plateau. Characteristics of the great lakes basin: watershed, area surrounding the gl (slope area, basin) where all the water flows into the gl, area is the lake and the area around it, 295,000 square miles, 764,051 square kilometres.
