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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.
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 terrestrial ecoregions of Canada are all within the Nearctic realm, which includes most of North America. The Nearctic, together with Eurasia's Palearctic realm, constitutes the Holarctic realm of the Northern Hemisphere. [1] British Columbia is the most biodiverse province with 18 ecoregions across 4 biomes.
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 ...
Interior Plains: Interior Low Plateaus Highland Rim section: Lexington Plain Nashville Basin: Great Plains: Missouri Plateau, Glaciated: Missouri Plateau, Unglaciated: Black Hills: High Plains: Plains Border: Arctic Coastal Plain: Colorado Piedmont: Raton section Pecos Valley: Edwards Plateau: Central Texas section Central Lowland Dissected ...
Each of the three divisions is distinguished by topography and geology. [1] The other physiographic regions are the Canadian Shield , the Hudson Bay Lowlands , the Interior Plains , the Cordillera , the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands , and the Appalachian Uplands .
The forests of Canada are located across much of the country. Approximately half of Canada is covered by forest, totaling around 2.4 million km 2 (0.93 million sq mi). [1] Over 90% of Canada's forests are owned by the public (Crown land and Provincial forest). About half of the forests are allocated for logging.
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.