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Canada's annual average temperature over land has warmed by 1.7 °C (3.1 °F), with changes ranging from 1.1 to 2.3 °C (2.0 to 4.1 °F) in various regions, since 1948. [4] The rate of warming has been higher across the North and in the Prairies. [4]
Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. [1]
There are two levels of competition—Level 1 is for Grades 4 to 6 is at the school level only, and Level 2 for Grades 7 to 10 [4] offers students the opportunity to compete at the provincial and national levels. At school level, students answer up to 90 geography-related questions.
The terrestrial ecoregions of Canada are all within the Nearctic realm, which includes most of North America. The Nearctic, together with Eurasia's Palearctic realm, constitutes the Holarctic realm of the Northern Hemisphere. [1] British Columbia is the most biodiverse province with 18 ecoregions across 4 biomes.
Historical geography of Canada (5 C, 1 P) L. Landforms of Canada (42 C, 1 P) Landmarks in Canada (6 C) LGBTQ places in Canada (5 C, 18 P) Linguistic geography of ...
Winter events in Canada (3 C, 9 P) I. Ice in Canada (5 C, 1 P) S. Snow in Canada (2 C) Winter sports in Canada (12 C, ...
For Sydney, the highest temperature ever recorded was 36.7 °C (98 °F) on August 18, 1935, [9] and the lowest was −31.7 °C (−25 °F) on January 31, 1873, [10] and January 29, 1877. [11] Lastly, for Kentville, the highest temperature recorded was 37.8 °C in August, 1944, [12] and the coldest temperature was -31.1 °C on February 19. [13]
Out of Canada's 100 largest cities, Winnipeg's winter is the tenth coldest with an average low of −20.2 °C (−4.4 °F). [24] From December through February the maximum daily temperature exceeds 0 °C (32 °F), on average, for only 10 days and the minimum daily temperature falls below −20 °C (−4 °F) on 49 days.