The Piedmont is a very special region. The piedmont is the second largest region in Georgia, and is located in between the Blue Ridge region and the coastal plain region. The Piedmont is classified by its rolling hills and Georgia red clay. Red clay appears the color red because of the iron oxide in the clay. Native Americans came to Georgia and the Piedmont region ten thousand years ago.…
Convergent boundaries means that the two plate collide into each other pushing up the land and create the mountains (as shown in the diagram). Finally, the last landform the tectonic plates created is the CT river valley or rift valley. A rift valley is a fault line in the ground usually with steep mountains or rocks on the side. When pangea split the CT rift valley formed.…
Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945, by Ronald Eller explores the devastation of traditional culture and land use in the Appalachian region at the hands of the coal industry and local, state, and federal leaders and policy makers. His perspective comes from one that separates growth from development and is highly critical of efforts to force Appalachia into a national economic model that is not aligned with the regions unique historical situations. After briefly setting the stage in the Civil War and the immediate years following, Eller focuses on modernization efforts preceding the 1930s depression and revitalization efforts that began during World War II. Eller makes the argument that industrialization and an expanding market economy altered Appalachian land use and social relations as early as the Civil War.…
Canada is a large isolated country and 90% of their population is 150 miles from our border. Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories. The St. Lawrence Lowlands is home to 50% of Canada’s population. The most manufacturing occurs in Ontario and Quebec. 2% of Canada’s area is located in the Atlantic Region.…
Newfoundland and Labrador been known for its fisheries, costal fishing village and distinct culture, this all is for the tourist come for relax in their trip. Nowadays the off-shore oil and gas extraction is a part of the economy in Canada. Next, the smallest province that…
Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned since 2010. This pipeline is one of the largest oil lines in North America. The pipeline system has gone though three phases and now the great debate is to finish with the fourth and expand the pipeline. According to _____The first two phases have the capacity to deliver up to 590,000 barrels per day of oil into the Mid-West refineries. Phase three has capacity to deliver up to 700,000 barrels per day to the Texas refineries.…
Hello class, today i will be talking about the canadian shield. First i will be talking about the history of the Shield. To start of i will be telling you some brief information about the canadian shield.…
Patrick Johnson Engr 597 Tectonics Dr. Gifford 10/14/2016 Formation of the Rocky Mountains Abstract • How did they form? • Sevier orogeny • Laramide orogeny • prevailing theory (flat slab subduction) 1. Very low angle subducting slab 2. rubbing against underside of North American plate 3.…
The State of Colorado Geography: Denver is the capital of Colorado. On August 1, 1876, Colorado became the (38th) state. The states that border Colorado is Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming. The area of Colorado is 104,185 mi²…
However, some of the mountains also act as barriers to air masses, giving some other mountains farther from the ocean less of a temperate climate. Likewise, snow is only usually…
The Valparaiso moraine is a terminal moraine formed from the Lake Michigan lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that spreads across Illinois to Michigan, ranging from 700 to 800 feet above sea level on average, with some hills topping 950 feet (Hartke, 1975). Although the whole segment is termed the “Valparaiso moraine,” it is more accurately the accumulation of several different moraines formed on top of each other, and the whole section has varying compositions and features. This suggests it wasn’t made in a single retreat, but rather a repeated advance and retreat of the glacier. There are two main till layers, which are primarily silt-clay loam and are separated by a discontinuous layer of sand and gravel outwash. On the western side of the…
1. By the end of the 1600s, the Chesapeake Bay region was an agro-export economy specializing in the cultivation of tobacco. One geographic benefits of the region to this endeavor is that the Chesapeake Bay region is surrounded by a lot of rivers where it makes trade and transportation of good accessible between different states. According to the Chesapeake Bay River 1 map, there are many rivers such as the Potomac River which extends to other states.…
Pennsylvania's diverse geography also produces a wide variety of climates, the state experiences icy winters and muggy summers. The largest part of the state, with the exclusion of the southeastern area, has a moist mainland climate. The hilly center of the state, the wintertime becomes cooler, the number of murky days increase, and snowfall amounts are greater. Western areas of the state, particularly locations near Lake Erie, can receive high amounts of snowfall annually, and the entire state receives plentiful precipitation throughout the year. The state may be subject to severe weather from spring through summer into fall.…
Culture/history (Elliot) The culture of the rocky mountain region is very diverse. There are many festivals, art shows, eateries, theater, and concerts are some of the things you can do in this culture filled region. Culture and religion Wildlife/Physical Features (Everyone) Common animals are Elks, Bighorn sheeps, moose, cougars, bobcats, bears. The Rocky Mountains are teeming with aquatic and aerial life forms.…
West Virginia is a place that I will always feel deeply and personally connected. I was born and raised there as a child. West Virginia’s environment always made you feel like you were, “Almost in Heaven”. Fall was always my favorite time of the year in West Virginia. It would be that time of year that we started wearing our sweaters during the cooler weather.…