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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.
Mixed prairie is more common and is part of the dry interior plains that extend from Canada south to the U.S. state of Texas. The northern short grasslands (WWF terminology) shown here on a map of North America in green, is a type of true prairie (grassland) that occurs in the southern parts of the Prairie Provinces.
The Alberta Plateau is a flat and gently rolling upland in Northern Alberta and in the northeastern corner of British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] It ranges in elevation from about 910 to 1,220 metres (3,000 to 4,000 feet) and lies in the middle of the Interior Plains, one of seven physiographic regions in Canada.
It is part of the Interior Plains, the Canadian extension of the Great Plains, and covers approximately 520,000 square kilometres of land and water. [1] Establishment of the agricultural industry has had a significant effect on the land, which now retains "little of the natural vegetation" [1] it had before the area was settled.
Fiord Ranges - Geophysical Survey of Canada designation for the Kitimat Ranges, plus the lower portion of the Pacific Ranges between the icefield-massifs at the core of the range and the coast. [3] The latter are sometimes labelled the Front Ranges on some topographic maps but are not in evidence on modern versions. Pacific Ranges. Chilcotin Ranges
Interior Highlands: Ozark Plateaus: Springfield-Salem Plateaus: Boston Mountains: Ouachita province Arkansas Valley Ouachita Mountains: 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 ...
The Arctic Lands is a physiographic region located in northern Canada. ... the Interior Plains, the Cordillera, the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands, ...
Interior Plains of western Canada, which extend from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Canada-US border east of the Canadian Cordillera and west of the Canadian Shield; links the Mackenzie Valley with the Canadian prairie. Southern Arctic Plains that includes the arctic coast of Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and an adjacent part of Nunavut