THE PHYSICAL

GEOGRAPHY OF
CANADA
CANADA’S
PHYSICAL over view of canada
LANDSCAPE althought huge,canada is home to
relatively few people its population
ranks thirthy.sixth in The world. The
great majority of those people live in
the southearn part of the country
almost 90 percent of them live withi
150 miles{241km} of canada-Us
border

the atlantic
provinces
Nova, Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfourland and Labrador
are called the atlantic Provinces.These four relatively small provinces border the
atlantic ocean.Except of NNewfourland and labrador they are distinguished mainly
by lowlands and plateous,High lands covern westetn Newfourland and Labrador

quebec
The provinces of Quebec and
Ontario reach from the
st.Lewrence River and Great
lakes to northen canada.They
are heart of canada and home
to more than 6 out of every 10
canadians.The land along the
st.lawrence river and the Great
lakes tends to be lowland plains
with fertile soil
ontario
lakes and
waterways
The Gulf of st. Lawrence river
which flows into the Great
lakes.For centuries, rapids
and steep drops in elevation
blocked ships from moving
along the river west of
montereal,In the 1950's,
throught, The united states
ad Canada worked together
to build the st.Lawrence
seaway,They made canals
and systems of locks that
can raise and lower ships
from water at two different
nevels

BODIES OF ocean, Bays and

WATER
some Bodies of waters shape
canada’s climate. Others have
economic importances.
gulfs
Three oceans border Canada-the atlantic,The
pacific, and the artic the pacific ocean brings
rains and mild temperatures to western canada
Cold air blow ever the artic ocen to chill
western of canadas,Cold air blows over the
Arctic ocean to chill northen and central of
canada The tlantic ocean moderates the
temperatures of eastern canada.
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NORTHEN LANDS
Canada’s three territories-Nunavut,Northwest
Territories, and Yulon Territory-lie to the
north.The arctic Ocean laps their northen
shores within that ocean lies a archipelago.An
archipelago is a group of islands .some of the
roughly 1,000 islands are tiny

BRITISH COLUMBIA
the landscape of british columbia is like
that ogf the northwestern United
states.The rocky mountains tower over the
asthern edge of the ptovince.A deep vallery
and plateous separate the mountains from
another high range farther west

THE PRALRIE PROVINCES

The pralrie provinces comprise
Manitoba,saskatchewan and Alberta.They
are covered chiefly by plains extending
north from the united states ,the plains
are titled from west to east