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2.4.1: Amundsen Plains 2.4.2: Aberdeen Plains 2.4.3: Central Angava Peninsula and Ottawa and Belcher Islands 2.4.4: Queen Maud Gulf and Chantrey Inlet Lowlands 3: Taiga: 3.1: Alaska Boreal Interior 3.1.1: Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands 3.1.2: Interior Bottomlands 3.1.3: Yukon Flats 3.2: Taiga Cordillera 3.2.1: Oglivie Mountains 3.2.2 ...
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. [2] These provinces are partially covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, mostly in the southern regions.
The Interior Plains physiographic area stretches across Canada and the United States, and the two governments each use a different hierarchical system to classify their portions. In Canada, the Interior Plains makes up one of seven physiographic areas included in the highest level of classification - defined as a "region" in that country.
Included in this list are Chad, Sudan, Namibia, South Africa, and Madagascar, whilst Mozambique and Tanzania are potential oil producers. [3] Types of Natural Resources in Africa. A notable part of Africa’s natural resources are minerals: crude oil, natural gas, coal and charcoal. gold, silver, lead, iron ore, cobalt, zinc, and manganese.
In Canada the term is rarely used; Natural Resources Canada, the government department responsible for official mapping, treats the Interior Plains as one unit consisting of several related plateaus and plains. There is no region referred to as the "Great Plains" in the Atlas of Canada. [2]
The eastern part of the island (the Avalon Peninsula and Burin Peninsula) is mostly folded sedimentary rocks with some intrusions of igneous rock and was part of southwestern Europe or Northern Africa about 250 million years ago. [1] The oldest rocks are Precambrian. Small remnants of Cambrian and Ordovician rocks occur along the coast.
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The interior intermontane plateau receive about 400 mm of annual precipitation, much less than the 1000 to 1500 mm levels in the eastern mountains, and the even higher levels in the western mountains. [5] Snowfall accounts for 35 to 60% of all precipitation. [10] Winters are long and cold, with January mean temperatures between -15 °C and -27 °C.