Humid subtropical climate

polar bear. Female polar bears would rather build their den in old snow,( like from a few years ago.) The polar bear is found in Canada , the U.S (Alaska), Greenland, Russia Norway (the Svalbard archipelago), and Arctic Tundra. The Arctic Tundra climate/weather averages to -30°F. In January it is the coldest weather in Arctic Tundra. It’s about -40°F, in January it has reached -93°F before. Most of the year Arctic Tundra is covered with snow, until summer brings wildflowers to burst. Pretty…

I must have stood out like a sore thumb that day at the water drive. I was a Hispanic male in a predominately African-American region of Flint, Michigan, and naturally my presence on that cold April day sparked curiosity from every resident that had shown up. "Why are you in Flint?", I was repeatedly asked throughout the day as I loaded cases of water into vehicles. I always gave the short answer: I drove over 600 miles to Flint with 40 cases of bottled water because it was the right thing to do…

Did you know that only 10% of the world is covered by glaciers? The Laurentide ice sheet was 13 million square miles. And it shaped Canada and Minnesota. In this paper, I will explain the effects of the Laurentide ice sheet on Minnesota's landscape. Glaciers may seem irrelevant to how we live now because in Minnesota there hasn't been a glacier for a long time but, they formed our state. The last glacial advance start of the Des Moines lobe was about 75,000 years ago. The last glacial…

With 53% of the population living in coastal communities and sea levels rising as a result of climate change, it is crucial that we address the issue through adaptation and mitigation. People living around coastal regions will be more susceptible but we also need to consider the impact on the coastal environments, estuaries and their vegetation and its biodiversity. This piece will analyze the changes of other estuaries to predict what the changes for Newport Back Bay. Because the estuary is…

Used worldwide by boats, people, animals, even pollution but yet nobody really cares about it. The Ocean is the largest ecosystem on earth and also one of the less explored ecosystems. The Ocean should be explored by all means, Exploring the ocean will lead to the answer of many worldwide problems. As just stated the ocean is one of the lesser explored ecosystem, so much that we know more about the moon than the ocean.…

The planet Earth orbits in such a way that it can cause an ice age. In order for this type of ice age to occur there would have to be many different things that must occur all at once. There is nothing the human civilization could possibly do about the orbit either to prevent the ice age. Milutin Milankovitch discovered the three orbital parameters that can cause an ice age if the conditions were all to align. Milankovitch’s three different orbital parameters include Earth’s eccentricity, axial…

There are many things going around saying that El Nino could end California’s drought. What El Nino is a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east central equatorial pacific. What El Nino could bring to California is much needed rain to fill up reservoirs, rivers and give plants a much needed drink of water. A lot of people are getting really excited because El Nino is coming to California and end the 4 year long drought. But meteorologists are saying that there is a 50/50…

The word Taiga is Russian for forest. The taiga biome is the largest biome in the world besides the ocean. These locations are known to be harshly cold and the climate is hard to adapt to. With miles upon miles of open land and needle tree forests a taiga can be a lonely place to live or visit. I chose this biome due to it being the least known to me. Upon researching the biome I found it very intriguing even though it is a lonely cold space of land. I would like to visit this type of biome to…

Following the last glacial maximum, at the end of the Pleistocene, there was a period of rapid change in the earth system (Björck, S. (2007)). This included; the onset of the younger Dryas cold reversal, which saw the return of glacial like conditions across the northern hemisphere and megafaunal extinction, where 35 genera of large mammals became extinct across North America (Firestone et al., 2007). One possible explanation for this change is the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), which…

Temperature change – Temperature change refers to the difference in temperature between two different time periods. In this paper, temperature change of the London Underground is compared between the winter and the summer. The paper states that the temperature of the system fluctuates from 25 degrees Celsius in the winter and 32 degrees Celsius in the summer. Therefore, this means that the average temperature change of the London Underground between winter and summer is 7 degrees Celsius. The…