Interior Plains Description
Sanya Khindaria
The Interior Plains is a region in west-central Canada, in the Mountain and Central time zones. It is the fourth largest region of Canada. Majority of the Interior Plains is prairie land with lots of flatlands. The total area of this region is 1, 900, 000 km². Approximately nineteen percent of Canada’s population lives in the Interior Plains region. This region includes certain points of interests and attractions such as city areas like downtown Calgary and natural sightseeing areas like the Rocky Mountains. The majority of the Interior Plains is prairie land, with many trees and grass. Most of this area is wide, open spaces and flat land. Some of the animals living here include deer, wolves, and
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Livestock in this region include cattle, pigs, poultry, etc. There are also vegetables such as wheat, barley, oats, flax, canola, mustard, potatoes, corn, and sugar beets. In the Interior Plains, during winter it is cold and lasts long. In summer, it is hot and lasts short. Winters in the Interior Plains can go as cold as -30°C and summers can be as hot as 30°C. The reason why it can get very cold in winters is that this region is near a cold ocean current. Interior Plains get the least precipitation in comparison to the other regions of Canada. This is because the westerly winds travel in the direction of west to east and the majority of the Interior Plains region is on the leeward side of the mountain. When moist air is forced to rise, it causes precipitation on the windward side. However, after the precipitation on the windward side occurs, there is only a little moisture in the air on the leeward side. This causes low precipitation on the leeward side of a mountain, where most of the Interior Plains are, especially south-western areas. Approximately, the amount of precipitation in this region is between 300mm and 500mm. South-west Interior Plains is the driest area of the region. On average, there
There are three parts in West’s book; the first part focuses on the sociological, ecological and economic relationships of the plains Indians, starting with the first establish culture of North America, the Clovis peoples. Going into extensive detail pertaining to early geology and ecology, West gives us a glimpse into what life on the early plains must have looked to early peoples. With vastly differing flora and fauna to what we know today, the early plains at the end of the first ice age, were a different place and lent itself to a diverse way of life. The Clovis peoples were accomplished hunters, focusing on the abundance of Pleistocene megafauna such as earlier, larger forms of bison. Though, little human remains were found, evidence of their s...
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Life is colorful and adventurous, especially if you belong to the military life style. Belonging to the military community for nearly two decades has given me a different outlook on each place we end up. Outdoor enthusiasts, like most military families are, make Colorado Springs a desirable duty stationed. The perfect location Colorado Springs has. The weather offers many clear, beautiful days, allowing Colorado Springs to be a playground to enjoy most of the year round. Many points of interest and vacation sights that can be done in or around Colorado Springs make it a favorite in the military community.
Kathleen DuVal, professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, contests long held beliefs about the historiography of native people and their place in America with her work, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. DuVal’s insightful book focuses on the Arkansas River Valley and the diverse group of both native groups and European powers that contented over the physical landscape, its resources, and the perception of control and power. The premise of Native is to show that native groups such as the Quapaws, Osage, and the Cherokee had the upper hand in almost every aspect from their economy, military might, and physical presence up until the 1800s.
The tundra artic plains completely covering most of the earth’s lands north of the coniferous forest belt. The tundra’s ecosystem is very sensitive. It doesn’t have a good ability to restore itself. Controlled by sedge, heath, willow, moss, and lichen. Plains that are pretty much alike, called alpine tundra, occur above the timberline in the high mountains of the world. Even the Antarctic area has a couple of its own arctic regions itself.
some lower areas of the Tundra will defrost at which point most of the flora and
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The purpose of this study cogitates two fundamental questions: how does geography happen to Black people and how do Black people 'happen' to geography? I examine this spatial paradigm of the Black body through the Black house kids; a collective of Black post-civil rights babies who participated in house music and house culture in Chicago between 1976-1993. I concentrate on the sociospatial processes-redlining, restrictive covenants, suburbanization, the rise of the post-1970 Black middle class-that altered the geographies of post-war Chicago for Black Chicagoans and unearth how the Black house kids responded to these shifts. I blend a hybrid of research practices and disciplinary theories, including: Black Geographies, Ethnomusicology, and Africana Studies. To understand what occurs to the Black body as it lives in
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