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Landscape diversity is a
product of the land’s many aspects. Like a puzzle, a landscape is a mosaic of
countless features that mean something different to everyone:
- a geologist may be interested in how glacial and fluvioglacial
materials were deposited in a certain area
- an agrologist will look at the same area and interpret its features
in terms of the processes that formed a given type of soil (such
as chernozem or podsol)
- a tourist will notice the area’s overall relief
- while a politician will view the particular land as a nation
or an administrative region
- demographers and sociologists will study it as the backdrop
of life, of populated places, or a setting for rural activities
- finally, the forester and the farmer will view it as a medium in which plant
life grows
Canadians use, measure, manage and develop land. It is where we move, live and build.
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The land represents the solid, exposed parts of the globe and
combines with water bodies and air masses to form the Earth.