GEOG 2RC3 Lecture Notes - Louis Hennepin, Regional Geography, Landform
17 Jul 2014
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Part ii: the physical environment canada"s physiographic regions. Purpose: to describe canada"s physical geography (and climate, to consider the relationship between canada"s physical and human geographies, to examine the nature of environmental issues in canada. Questions: where is niagara falls, where was niagara falls 10 000 years ago? (it was in a different location, why is the second question necessary? (because the physical environment is continuously changing. Now 8 km or so south of it"s location 12 000 years ago) Definitions: physiographic region an area with distinct surface landform features (geomorphology) and underlying rock structure (geology); see fig 2. 1, p. 34, geomorphology the study of landforms and the processes of their genesis (from. Water, ice, wind: every landform is a product of one or both of these processes, challenges imaging/understanding the ability of these processes to alter the physical landscape (force and time) Virtually all of canada is covered by ice. Geological evolution of north american featured 3 major developments:
