GEOG 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Maternal Death, Soil Fertility, Appalachian Mountains
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Geog 1700 - lecture 7 - part 3. Canada and the u. s: environmental regions, population regions, cultural regions, political regions, economic and social regions, environmental regions. America and canada share the great lakes. Also a pronounced maritime effect, especially on the pacific coast. Acid rain and great lakes quality are transboundary issues. Climate change has a variable geography across the u. s. Mu(cid:272)h of the u west has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) stri(cid:272)ke(cid:374) (cid:271)y drought for t(cid:449)o or (cid:373)ore years dri(cid:448)i(cid:374)g up food prices in some cases. The us and canada have a lot of fuel resources (cid:271)ut there are e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal problems associated with the exploitation. Fra(cid:272)ki(cid:374)g hydrauli(cid:272) fra(cid:272)turi(cid:374)g is (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g the u (cid:862)e(cid:374)ergy-i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t(cid:863) (cid:271)ut there are significant environmental concerns: population regions. Canada has a much smaller population than the us, but both have high rates of urbanization and life expectancy. Both ha(cid:448)e lo(cid:449) fertility rates (cid:894)a(cid:374)d lo(cid:449) populatio(cid:374) de(cid:374)sities(cid:895) i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ati(cid:374)g a (cid:374)eed for immigrants.
