PHYSICAL GEOGRPAHY OF CANADA

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA

1. LIMITS AND BOUNDARIES

North: Arctic Ocean

West: Alaska, Pacific Ocean

South: United States Border

East: Atlantic Ocean

2. ELEMENTS OF THE MAINLAND RELIEF

Plains: Interior Plains

Plateaus: Laurentian Plateau

Mountain Ranges: Mackenzie Mountains, Cassiar Mountains, Coastal Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Baffin Mountains,

Peaks: Mount Logan

3. ELEMENTS OF THE COAST

Oceans: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean

Seas: Beaufort Sea, Labrador Sea

Peninsulas: Boothia Peninsula, Melville Peninsula, Peninsula D' Ungava, Peninsula of Labrador, New Scotia

Islands and Archipelagos:

1. Arctic Ocean: Ellesmere, Queen Elizabeth Island, Meville, Devon, Banks, Victoria, Prince Wales, King William, Somerset, Baffin
2. Hudson Bay: Southampton
3. Atlantic Ocean: Newfoundland, Anticosti, Prince Edward
4. Pacific Ocean: Queen Charlotte, Vancouver

Capes: Cape Bathurst, Cape Wolstenholme, Cape Chidley, Battle Harbour Point, Cape Race, Cape Scott

Gulfs/bays/sounds: Mackenzie Bay, Amundsen Gulf, Queen Maud Gulf, Gulf of Boothia, Gulf of Foxe, Hudson Bay, James' Bay, Ungava Bay, Gulf of Sain Lawrence, Puget Sound, Queen Charlotte Sound

Straits: Dolphin and Union Strait, Davis Strait, Hudson Strait

4. ELEMENTS OF THE INLAND HYDROGRAPHY

Rivers:

1. To the Bering Sea: Yukon
2. To the Beaufort Sea: Mackenzie
3. To the Lake Mclend: Fraser
4. To the Lake Athabasca: Athabasca
5. To the Lake Winnipeg: Saskatchewan
6. To the Hudson Bay: Dubawnt, Albany, Le Grande Riviere
7. To the Atlantic Ocean: River Saint Lawerence

Lakes: Grat Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Winnipeg, Winnipegosis, Superior, Huron, Eire, Ontario, Smallwood