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__ The Amazing Manitoba __ By Karlene Kuzan and Noelia Mercado

__ Bodies of Water __


 * The Hudson Bay Lowland is a wet plain boardering the southern part of Hudson Bay.


 * The Canadian Shield is a vast, horseshoe-shaped region that covers almost half of Canada and part of the United States.


 * The Manitoba Lowland forms part of the Western Interior Plains, the Canadian section of the North American Great Plains.



__ Landforms __


 * Manitoba supports thousands of lakes, a legacy of it glacially impacted past. Most notable is Lake Winnipeg, which covers over 9,000 square miles of central and southern Manitoba.


 * The old bed of Glacial Lake Agassiz, relentlessly flat, supports rich agriculture in both Canada and the U.S.


 * Manitoba includes within its borders a great transition zone between prairies, hardwood forest, boreal taiga and subartic tundra. Nestled against North Dakota and Minnesota to the south, Saskatchewan to the west, Nunavut to the north and Ontario to the east, the province also has important landforms as natural boundaries, including the Manitoba Escarpment and the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay.



__ 4 Fun Facts __


 * Canada Lynxes can be found in forested and make their danes undreneath fallen trees, tree stumps, rock ledges or thick bushes. Lyxes are very territorial animals.


 * The Arctic fox is both a carnivore and scavenger, eating lemmings, eggs and the young of different species of bird.To find prey during the winter, the Arctic Fox uses its hearing and sense of smell to detect animals travelling in tunnels underneath the snow


 * The polar bear lives in the Arctic terrain in vast areas of ice surrounding open water.It uses the ice as a platform to hunt its favorite food, ringed seals, which are a type of seal commonly found in the Arctic.A polar bear uses its sense of smell for hunting and can detect a seal's breathing hole in the ice from up to a kilometer away.

__ Economy __


 * Wheat is the most important crop with barley and canola close behind.


 * Manitoba is the leading Canadian producer of flaxseed, sunflower seeds, buckwheat, and field peas.


 * Agriculture remains an important sector of the Manitoba economy. Agriculture is the backbone of rural Manitoba and its infrastructure in towns and cities.



__ Climate __
 * Manitoba has a moderately dry climate with sharp seasonal tempurature changes.


 * Winter temperatures of 40 degrees farenheit are not uncommon in the province.


 * Summer temperatures of 100 degrees farenheit are not uncommon in southern Manitoba areas..


 * Snow covers the ground Nov. to April in the south and even longer in the North.

__ Major Cities __
 * Winnipeg is the most populated area in Manitoba, due to the fact that Winnipeg is the capital of Manitoba.


 * The population Winnipeg is about 663,617.


 * The second most populated city in Manitoba is Brandon, the population is 41,511.



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