GEO 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rain Shadow, Humid Continental Climate, Secondary Sector Of The Economy
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Canada"s population is clustered where the usa and can meet. More specifically, the clusters are greatest in vancouver, bc and where the eastern parts of canada meet the east coast of the usa. The east-west corridor that extends across southern canada, mostly within 300 km (200 mi) of the usa border. A geographic region in which climate and geology have given rise to an array of landforms different from those of surrounding regions. From the book "a region within which there prevails substantial natural-landscape homogeneity, expressed by a certain degree of uniformity in surface relief, climate, vegetation, and soils. (ex: rocky mountains, great plains, appalachians) "the variation of the continental effect on air temperatures in the interior portions of the world"s landmasses. The greater the distance from the moderating influences of an ocean, the greater the extreme in summer and winter temperatures. Continental interiors also tend to be dry when the distance from oceanic moisture sources becomes considerable"
