Canada
, is the world's second largest country and it is the largest country in
the Western Hemisphere. It comprises all of the North American continent north
of the United States, with the exclusion of Alaska, Greenland, and the tiny
French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Its most easterly point is Cape
Spear, Newfoundland and its western limit is Mount St. Elias in the Yukon
Territory, near the Alaskan border. The southernmost point is Middle Island, in
Lake Erie and the northern tip is Cape Columbia, on Ellesmere Island.
Canada is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the west by the pacific
Ocean, and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and its associated bodies of ...
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and magnesium are found.
Fresh water covers an estimated 756 276 sq km or 7.6% of Canada. The many
rivers and lakes supply ample fresh water to meet the nation's needs for its
communities and for irrigation, agriculture, industries, transportation, and
hydroelectric power generation. Canada has four principal drainage basins: the
Atlantic Basin which drains to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Great Lakes and
the St. Lawrence River, the Hudson Bay Basin which drains northward into Hudson
Bay via the Churchill, Nelson and Saskatchewan rivers, the Arctic Basin which is
drained by the Mackenzie River and the Pacific Basin which drains into the
Pacific Ocean via the Fraser, Yukon and Columbia rivers.
Canada has six major physical, or physiographic, regions: the Canadian Shield,
the Arctic Islands, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Appalachian
Region, the Interior Plains, and the Cordilleran Region.
In simple terms, Canada can be considered a vast, saucer-shaped ...
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conditions are
generally cool and wet. Precipitation is fairly heavy in northern Quebec and
Labrador. The climate and acidic soils in this area do not create proper
conditions for agriculture. Some coniferous and deciduous forests are found in
this area as well as, shrubs, litchen and heath.
The Arctic Islands lie to the northwest of the central depression and constitute
about 8.3% of Canada's land area. They are mostly covered by permanent snow and
ice fields. The northern sections of the region include the United States Range,
which reaches 2926 m in northern Ellesmere Island. The southern sections are
lower in altitude and are sometimes referred to collectively as the ...
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