GEOG 1001 Lecture : North America Notes
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Interior lowlands: largest landform region, good soils, gentle slopes for farming, stretches from canada/great lakes to the rocky mountains including. Ohio river valley: rocky mountains, running from alaska to northern new mexico, high mountains, mineral riches, pacific mountains and valleys, active volcanoes, earthquakes, good farming, stretches from california to british columbia in canada. Setting the boundaries: north america, region composed of two countries, canada, the united states, highly mobile, industrialized, and urbanized. Vancouver: north america"s asian metropolis, 1997 british hong kong handover to china, 10s of thousands of people moving from hong kong to. Vancouver, toronto, london, san francisco, etc: concerned about economics associated with china. Those with money feared communist currency controls: massive out migration from hong kong, vancouver is biggest benefactor, 1971-1986, vancouver"s chinese population goes from 25k to. Kong) while remaining family members reside in host country (canada): between 240k and 300k canadian passport holders in. A lot of this area averages <16 inches/year of rain.
