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Land
The land represents the solid, exposed parts of the globe and combines with water bodies and air masses to form the Earth.
List of Land Maps:
- Land Cover Map | Read about this map
- Permafrost Map | Read about this map
- Plant Hardiness Zones Map | Read about this map
- Relief Map | Read about this map
- World Heritage Sites Map | Read about this map
- Surficial Materials Map | Read about this map
- Physiographic Regions Map | Read about this map
- Shield Physiographic Regions Map | Read about this map
- Borderlands: Arctic Physiographic Regions Map | Read about this map
- Borderlands: Cordilleran Physiographic Region Map | Read about this map
- Borderlands: Interior Plains Physiographic Region Map | Read about this map
- Borderlands: Eastern Physiographic Regions Map | Read about this map
Landscape diversity is a product of the land’s many aspects. Like a puzzle, a landscape is a mosaic of countless features that mean something different to everyone:
- a geologist may be interested in how glacial and fluvioglacial materials were deposited in a certain area
- an agrologist will look at the same area and interpret its features in terms of the processes that formed a given type of soil (such as chernozem or podsol)
- a tourist will notice the area’s overall relief
- while a politician will view the particular land as a nation or an administrative region
- demographers and sociologists will study it as the backdrop of life, of populated places, or a setting for rural activities
- finally, the forester and the farmer will view it as a medium in which plant life grows
Canadians use, measure, manage and develop land. It is where we move, live and build.
