The Kids Book of Canadian Geography

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• How the Rocky Mountains were once submerged reefs in an ancient sea. Fossils of tropical sea creatures can still be found there.
• How the ice from the last ice age was so thick it would have buried the Parliament buildings in Ottawa.
• Native grasslands, which are among the most endangered ecosystems in Canada. Species such as the black-footed ferret have been pushed into refuges, but coyotes and prairie gophers are thriving because they have adapted to living near human settlements.
• Canada's boreal forest, one of the largest intact forest left on earth. A century of logging, mining and oil and gas development has damaged the forest, but much of it still remains to filter water and air and store carbon.