The Interior Plains

It often has severe weather such as droughts flooding tornadoes hail dust storms blizzards and ice storms.

The interior plains. The largest lakes in the interior plains is the great bear lake great slave lake and lake winnipeg the interior plains p 2. Droughts are long periods without rain or snow. The interior plains fall under the mountain and central time zones the interior plains p 2.

The interior plains is an area that affects 5 canadian provinces that include yukon the north west territories british columbia alberta saskatchewan and manitoba. Interior plains the interior plains are located in throughout canada in the yukon northwest territories british columbia alberta saskatchewan and manitoba. The interior plains were formed when soils near rivers and lakes from the canadian shield were deposited and sedimentary rock were formed horizontally from these deposits resulting in large areas of flat land river valleys and rolling hills.

The interior plains has many natural resources such as oil natural gas coal forests and farmland. It is 1 8 million km2 or 18 of canada s land surface. Rivers flowing into these waters deposited sediments which were transformed into layer upon layer of sedimentary rock.

The interior plains also has escarpments and badlands the interior plains p 4. The sedimentary materials here provide fertile soils for the patchwork of prairie farms. In the southern part of the interior plains lie grasslands.

The interior plains has flat plains with gently rolling hills lowlands plateaus foothills the interior plains p 4.