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Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ROCKY MOUNTINS

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  • The canidanian rockies extend southwestward 1000 miles
  • They form half of the 900 mile border
  • The rocky mountins trench a geologic deppresion
  • About 50 peaks overpass 11000 feet
  • Mt robeson is the tallest peak 12972 feet

ST LAWRENCE RIVER

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  • Its one of the longest rivers in north america
  • The lake flows 766 miles from lake onterio
  • The river is 250 feet at its deepest point
  • The st lawrence river has a discharge rate of347 849 cubic feet
  • There are 1854 islands in this river

NIAGRA FALLS

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  • Fish acctually travel over the falls
  • 90 percent of the fish that swim down the fall survive
  • Back in the 1800 the niagara falls was nearly frozen
  • 20 percent of the water of north america goes through the falls
  • 28000000 billon gallons of water goes down every secound

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  • The great lakes is 95 160 sq miles
  • The lakes are on the us and canidanian border
  • They are popular recreation sitesfor boating and fishing
  • 14000 thousand years ago the lakes were covered with a glacier
  • The lakes has 170 different fish species

CANADA

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  • The coldest day in canada was feb 3 1947
  • In the past 30 years the nighttime low temp is -26.7
  • In 2006 the avrage warm temperatureswere recorded higher
  • Some places get as low as 27 degrees at night
  • Very few people live in the north of canada due to its weather

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  • Over 1.8 billon jobs torward natural resorses in 2013
  • 607 billion went into investments
  • 503 in energy
  • 165 into minarals
  • 1.6 into forest

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