English-speaking countries. Canada. Zvarich Alyona 7 b klass

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Geographical position

Geographical position Area - 9984 sq. km. (second in the world).Canada is situated in North America. .

Geographical position Canada is a federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Washed Washed the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans. It shares borders with the United States, Denmark and France.

Great Lakes Great Lakes - a system of freshwater lakes in North America, the U.S. and Canada. Includes a number of large and medium-sized reservoirs, linked by rivers and straits.

Time The country has six time zones. In the winter time, behind Moscow 5.5 - 10 hours from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October - 6.5 - 11 hours in different parts of the country.

The population Population - 34 million people. The bulk of the population - the descendants of immigrants from Europe: Anglo-Saxons, French Canadian, German, Italian, Ukrainian, Dutch, etc. Indigenous people - Indians and Eskimos - during colonization was forced into the north.

The Capital of Canada One of the most interesting places in Canada is its capital - Ottawa.

Canada's Great Lakes Canada's Great Lakes are some of the largest and most beautiful in the world. The alpine towns sprinkled along the Rockies on the Alberta side are an unspoiled mountain playground where each season has its own unique beauty and selection of activities.

Plants Vegetation consists of: deciduous forest, mixed forest, taiga, tundra, arctic deserts of the North. The northern part of Canada is covered by tundra, which penetrates far south. There are growing heather, sedges, shrub birch and willow. To the south of the tundra stretched reach of woodland. Coniferous forests, the main species - black spruce in the east and in the west of white spruce, pine, larch, Thuja, etc. Less common deciduous forest consists of poplar, alder, birch and willow. Especially diverse forests in the Great Lakes (American elm, Weymouth pine, Canadian train, oak, chestnut, beech). On the Pacific coast of common coniferous forests of Douglas, Sitka spruce, red cedar and Alaska) are found near Vancouver madrone and Oregon oak. In The Atlantic coastal provinces - Acadian forests with balsam fir, black spruce and red, as cedar, American larch, yellow birch, beech.

Animals Are found in the tundra caribou, arctic hare, lemming, arctic fox and original musk musk ox. South of the animal world is more diverse - forest caribou, deer elk, moose, mountain areas - bighorn sheep and mountain goat. Quite numerous rodents Canadian protein Chikara, chipmunk, American flying squirrel, beaver, shrew of a family of gerbils, muskrat, porcupine - iglosherst, meadow and jack-rabbit, pika. From feline predators to Canada - the Canadian lynx and cougar. Wolves, foxes, black bear - grizzly, raccoon-poloskun. Of weasels - sable, fisher, otter, wolverine, etc. A lot of nesting birds and game birds. Fauna of reptiles and amphibians is not rich. In many freshwater fish.