Interior Plains Geography

Out wash has small sediments sorted in layers, and Till has large sediments not sorted into any layers. Till can leave behind features like Kame, Drumlins, and Moraines. Drumlins are elongated hills of till. Drumlins can be found in Central Minnesota and/or South of Brainerd. Moraines are very large ridges of Till. Moraines can be found in West/Central Minnesota. Outwash can leave features behind like Outwash Plains and Eskers. An Outwash plain formed by melt water of a glacier. Outwash plains are important because they are very great for farming which is a huge part of America. Glaciers can leave behind features like Kettle Lakes. Kettle Lakes formed by ice chunks falling off the main glacier, causing an indent on the earth's surface. Then the ice chunk will melt causing the hole to fill up with water. Most of Minnesota’s Kettle lakes are in Moraine/Terminal Moraine

The environmental issue in the Interior Plains is lumber/timber harvesting. Forest workers are cutting down trees to turn tree parts into lumber and timber.

Another population pocket influenced by Canada is the Cordillera of British Columbia. The urban population is concentrated in one small area, the southwestern corner of British Columbia. This population pocket is where 75% of the people in this province live. This region has climate unlike any other part of Canada mild winters and mild summers. Another population cluster is The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands region. Some of the most fertile soil found in Canada lies in the Holland Marsh area. The Holland Marsh mostly lies within the valley of the Holland River. This 20 000 acre area contains organic, fertile soil which is ideal for growing market crops for vegtables. Organic matter consists of living plant tissues and organisms found in soil and organic matter improves the physical condition of soil. This area had low lying, wetland terrain. Large amounts of resources in many areas attract many people to this country. The Plains region which stretches down to the Mexican border has many rich resources including large reserves of oil and natural gas that were discovered mainly in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The coast of the Cordillera region, in Britsh Columbia, contains many rich resources mainly a large amount of salmon coming from the North Pacific Ocean, also many immense forests produce large amounts of lumber.

The North Central Plains region is mostly rural grasslands and small towns with a few large cities. Most of this prairie land is thick grasses. There is also a cross timbers area full of hardwood trees. Farming is common here because of the fertile soil. So there are many kinds of crops grown in this region. There also commonly short prairie grass. Climate in the region/area can be extreme. In the winters its cold, but in the summer it can be the hottest area in Texas. The average rainfall is 20 - 30 inches a year and during the spring there can be violent storms and tornadoes. Landforms in the Central Plains region of Texas is part of a larger Central Plains region of North America. It is made up of 3 separate areas. They are the Grand Prairie, the Cross Timbers, and the Rolling Plains. Each of these areas has a different type of landform, and they include prairies, forests, and

The areas along the river are mainly forested; much of the area is a flat, gently rolling plain. The upland prairies were created during an intensive warming period several thousand years after the melting of the glaciers. The Illinois River Valley in the Starved Rock area is a major

There are many ways to define Northern Ontario, however, I believe the most accurate geological definition of Northern Ontario was defined by the Ontario Census Division. Northern Ontario encompasses over a large percentage of provincial landmass, stretching from Parry Sound, north to the shores of Hudson Bay, west to the border of Manitoba and east to the border of Quebec (Map Two). Most of Northern Ontario is situated on the Canadian Shield which is characterized by a vast rocky plateau and lakes. In the video “Nine Rivers”, four men on a canoeing trip heading north to Hudson’s Bay, captured the beauty of Northern Ontario. They described the waterways that ranged from small creeks to massive bodies of moving water as an era of great

The climate of the interior plains is continental, which basically means that the climate is relatively dry with extremely hot summers and cold winters. The weather is very diverse and may change quickly without warning. In the North of the physiographic region, the winters are long and the summers are short and cool whereas in the South, the the winters are harsh with little precipitation and long summers. Although the humid weather and the flat lands create an ideal place to grow crops like wheat and corn, the growing season itself is quite short, even in the southern region due to the lack of precipitation needed for diversified crops to flourish. The flat prairies east to the Rockies is a meeting ground for Arctic, Pacific and

Canada is a very large country, with areas of land in various climate regions, and land regions, thus having many ecozones that differentiate from another. The most populated ecozone in Canada is the Mixedwood Plains; the ecozone we are located in, named after the mixedwood forests that are native to the area. The Mixedwood Plains is one of the smallest of the Canadian ecozones, spanning only 175 963 kilometres squared. The Mixedwood Plains is bordered by three of the great lakes on the southern side of the ecozone, and comes up along the St Lawrence river to southern Quebec, and fills the tip of Ontario. It has rolling plains and small rock formations and escarpments. The Mixedwood Plains contains over half of the Canadian population as

Prairies provinces have common factors; Landscape, agriculture, climate, that represent in similarities compared to the rest of Canada. Landscape defines the Prairie Provinces as a formal region. With the enormous size of flatland, the immense quantities and high qualities of grains can be produced. This result in majority of land being used for agricultural purposes. In addition, the Prairie Provinces have significant harsh cold winters and mild dry summers compared to other provinces. The key differences are the ecosystem and the natural resources the region provide. Each province unique ecosystem allows different kinds of harvest and animal breed. Moreover, these key differences created different industry and job opportunities.

As this river of ice moved slowly over the hidden rocks, the base of the glacier grazed millions of sediments in the Earth. The after math composed of soil, pebbles, cobbles and boulders that pushed forward, smashing rocks into glacial dust. Then the climate began to warm. Melted water from the glaciers carried the soils and rocks away from the dissolving glacier, depositing its leftovers throughout the landscape. This combination of soils and rocks deposited. Then low hills, or moraines, were created across the state. Michigan's glacial drift averages 200 to 300 feet. The scraping of boulders created particles. The heaviest pieces formed ridges, which made the stream's flow in a certain direction. Lighter materials were carried further, dropping on the way as the flowing water slowed. These materials dried forming enormous, flat colored areas of sand, silt, clay creating a mixture called the outwash plains. The weight of the glacier over the Michigan basin was dropping, and the Earth began to recoil, like a sponge coming back to its original shape. The Michigan landscape began to appear. Plants began to approach on the shriveled landscape. Individual plants found a suitable growing environment near each other, which created a suitable home for

When analyzing the West region of Canada two groups emerge one being the Prairies of

Champaign County was first covered by the Illinois Glacier (191,000—130,000 years ago), which leveled the region and covered it in a deposit of boulder clay. The county’s topography was then formed by the Wisconsin Glacier about 20,000 years ago. As lobes of ice from what is now Lake Michigan crossed the county, a deep (up to 300 ft) pile of glacial soil was created and topped by numerous moraines (any glacially formed accumulations of unconsolidated debris) forming small, flat watersheds with no outlets. The moraines formed as the Wisconsin Glacier advanced and receded many times over the Midwest. The Champaign moraine system now crosses the county in a northwest-southeast direction, and between the moraines ridges are broad plains of what used to be swampy land, most of which has since been artificially drained.

The Hudson bay/Arctic Lowland is an area around the south western shore of Hudson bay and James bay, which is a very flat, low area covered by swampy forests. the waters of the Hudson bay covered much of this Lowland at the end of the last ice age. The Arctic Lowland is made up of a series of island located in the far north of Canada, and has gently rolling landscape. The Arctic Lowlands have harsh climate which means its not good land for farming, the ground remains frozen for most of the year. In the sedimentary rock from the Palaeozoic era, which formed from the Lowlands contains ignite, oil, and natural gas deposits. In the Lowlands large amounts of limestone is found. The landscape of the Arctic Lowland is mostly ice, snow, rock and a

The great plains are a vast region of North America that spreads from Canada nearly down to the Coast of Texas. This region is comprised of primarily flat grounds with the exceptions of the larger mountain ranges including the Rockies. Within this region is the Little Bison Basin, a stretch of the Great Plains where glacial rivers feed into the larger Whiskey River. Nevin Feneman in his 1916 study defines this region as, "The term "Great Plains", for the region west of about the 96th or 98th meridian and east of the Rocky Mountains, was not generally used before the early 20th century." As vast as the region is, there are many trends that run throughout not the least of which is the obvious glacial carving.

SouthWest Alberta is part of a gorgeous landscape of grassy plains and rocky cliffside. The east is covered in high grass and prairies, while the west is a mixture of cacti, sage and short grasses. The plains people experience extreme weather - cold, frigid winters and scorching summers. Across the landscape are large herds of buffalo, bears, deer, antelope and coyotes.