Head down any secondary highway in southern Alberta and chances are you'll run into a ghost town. While the province is best known today for it's booming energy industry, there was a time when much of western Canada relied on Alberta coal, not crude. plaque where the town used to stand is the sole reminder of a town that once existed. Source. Alexo was built as a coal mining town, the Alexo mine operated from 1920 to 1955. Alexo was home to a hotel, a cookhouse, a bunkhouse, a store, and 30 cottages.
A shape is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, texture, or material composition. Psychologists have theorized that humans mentally break down images into simple geometric shapes called geons.
The difference between shape and form is that form is the 3-D of a shape and shapes are two dimensional whereby height and width are defined by lines. Examples of forms consist of spheres, cubes, cylinders and cones and examples of shapes include consist of circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.