Matching Articles"Environment" (Total 10)

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  • The Avalon Forest ecoregion is located in the interior of the Avalon Peninsula.
  • An article on the Central Newfoundland ecoregion which covers the north-central part of the island of Newfoundland.
  • This ecoregion is located on the perimeter of Lake Melville. It has humid, cool summers and cold winters.
  • Precontact cultures utilized stone for tool making. They appear to have preferred chert, a fine-grained stone composed mainly of silica.
  • This ecoregion extends across the southern Labrador border with Quebec and runs northwest to the southern boundary of the Smallwood Reservoir.
  • Slope-stability or mass-movement problems occur where either sediment and/or rock and/or snow move downslope in response to gravity.
  • The Smallwood Reservoir/ Michikamau ecoregion can be divided into two sections in Labrador.
  • South Avalon Burin Oceanic Barrens ecoregion covers the southern tips of the Avalon and Burin peninsulas.
  • An article on the Ungava Bay Basin ecoregion of Labrador which extends northward from Schefferville and encompasses most of the Labrador Hills in northeastern Quebec.
  • This ecoregion extends northeast from Winokapau Lake and borders the western extensions of the Lake Melville ecoregion.