Mountain range

MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN When I was a little kid, if we got in bed quickly, my mom would read my brothers and I a part of a book as we went to bed. Books like The Great Brain, Call of the Wild, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Enormous Egg, and, yes, My Side of the Mountain. It has been a long time since hearing the book read, so at first I wasn’t even going to read it. I had read the list and was going to read Huckleberry Finn, but by brother suggested I read My Side of the Mountain instead.…

lot of folding and faulting in the region and the faulting mainly consists of strike-slip faulting and extensional rifting. The Basin and Range province is a large part of the Cordillera. The Basin and Range resulted when the subducting slab fell away and the heat triggered extensional collapse of much of the Western US. The Basin and Range is the youngest of the systems and reflects 200-300 Km of extension from east to…

From growing crops to destroying cities, Latin America’s geography and landforms have a large impact on the people who live there. Some examples are mountains, deserts, rainforests, and plate boundaries. Some of these contribute to science. Others merely impact where people chose to live. Either way, geography affects the people. Mountain ranges such as the Andes and Sierra Madre have vertical climate zones. Each of the five climate zones provide different resources, giving Latin America…

The Basques are considered to be one of the oldest ethnic groups in Europe, possibly the oldest. Their homeland or region lies on the border between France and Spain, in the Pyrenees mountain range. They live in three regions on the Spanish side of the mountains and three on the French side. The Basques refer to these regions, together, as Euskal-Herria, or Land of the Basques. The population of Basques is almost 3 million, but there are about one million people living the Basque regions that…

Science Aspect 1 – Who am I? Scientific Name: Equus Caballus Common Name: Horse Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae Kingdom: Animalia Genus: Equus Species: Caballus (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, 2012) (Scientific classification of horses, n.d.,) (Fredrickson, 2000) Aspect 2 – Reasons for the Introduction The story of the Brumby began in 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Australia (Dawson, 2005). Domestic horses originated from England and were…

Among U.S states, some states are different in various ways. These states can be significantly different for many reasons ranging from obvious to not so obvious. For example, Arkansas and California both have differences in the weather, people, and lifestyle. First, the weather in Arkansas and California is quite different. To begin with, Arkansas rains more often throughout the whole year; therefore, the air is more humid in most cities. One of the reasons is the Arkansas River that runs…

Congratulations. That’s great. Amazing. All things people say after someone has climbed Mount Everest or any other high-altitude mountain. The question most should be asking is was it worth it? Varying degrees of mountain sickness can affect a climber. They range from just headaches as a result of acute mountain sickness to death from High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE). High altitude climbing can also kill brain cells, which can impact a person later in life. High-altitude climbing is very…

practice Catholic for their religion. For their government, they have a Prime Minister and a President who both share the executive powers over France. France has 4 seasons each year, just as we do here in Wisconsin. Mountains run along from eastern and central France, including the Alps Mountains that stretches along its border with Italy. France also has a mountainous plateau divided by steep canyons and valleys. Beaches spread across the Atlantic Ocean with the border with Spain. France also…

Looking thoroughly at evidential proof of a worldwide flood, there are multiple biblical accounts, written accounts, and scientific statements that many scholars believe the claims of the catastrophic event [the worldwide flood] actually happened. Is there really evidence that proves the world wide flood actually happened that is written about in the book of Genesis? The Bible gives testimony of the Great Flood and how it covered the whole earth: “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The…

It is stated that the most significant snow upon this earth is situated in Utah and with a typical of 500" of earth's driest as well as the lightest powder each year. There are lots of great Skiing resorts over here which range from less costly to more costly resorts. Utah skiing resorts are world-class skiing resorts. Utah can't be beaten because of its consistency and its own surfaces of the deepest and the lightest natural powder around. In the entire year 2002 Utah skiing resorts also…