BP4 QTR4: Research and Interpretation-Geography

Location: Identify Latitude and Longitude, regional location, neighboring countries and any adjacent bodies of water. Image for this post should be a map.

Area: The total area of of your country including all land and water areas.
9 984 670 square kilometres
Area-Comparative: Country's area compared with one of the 50 U.S. states or the entire US
9 984 670 square kilometres vs .  Florida is 170304 km2
Land Boundaries: Total length of all land boundaries
8893 km
Climate: Description of typical weather throughout the year
Canada's climate is not as cold all year around as some may believe. In winter, temperatures fall below freezing point throughout most of Canada. But the south-western coast has a relatively mild climate. Along the Arctic Circle, mean temperatures are below freezing for seven months a year.
Terrain: Brief description of the topography
dominited  by candian sheild
Natural Resources: Your country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance
Land Use::arable land: 5%
permanent crops: 0%
permanent pastures: 3%
forests and woodland: 54%
other: 38%
Environment-Current Issues: The most pressing and important environmental problems. These can be from the following categories:acidification, acid rain, asbestos, biodiversity,catchments,
DDT, defoliants, deforestation, desertification, dredging, driftnet fishing, ecosystems, effluents, endangered species, freshwater, groundwater, metallurgical plants,
noxious substances, overgrazing, ozone shield, poaching, pollution, potable water, salination, siltation, slash and burn agriculture, soil degradation, soil erosion,
UV radiation, water-born diseases
In “Royal Bank's profit slides 17%,” Rita Trichur mentions that the difficulty of trading to the US because of Canadian dollar increasing induces Royal Bank’s profit declined by 17% to $1.25 billion after debt writedowns. Nevertheless, RBC’s CEO, Gordon Nixon, encourages investors that RBC has strong finance and substantial performance to lay out an acceptable representation in the global stinging competition and hard market development. In contrast, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce loses billions money in the dead-alive market environment. Although RBC comes in for the impingement of the subprime mortgage meltdown of the US, it is very limited and Gordon believes that the spring of the financial markets will show up soon. However, RBC keeps the dividend unchanged, so this makes some analysts to be less promising for its future situation. As well, RBC’s capital market, credit losses, subprime mortgage, real estate exposures, and its US operations are
Environment-International Agreements: Country participation in international environmental agreements. These agreements fall under two categories: party to and signed but not ratified.
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation
Natural Hazards: Potential natural disasters
continuous permafrost in north is a serious obstacle to development; cyclonic storms form east of the Rocky Mountains, a result of the mixing of air masses from the Arctic, Pacific, and North American interior, and produce most of the country's rain and snow