Colorado Plateau Research Paper

Hawaii has an extremely diverse environment, maybe the most in the world. But how? How did Hawaii get all the species(plants and animals) that we have now. The reason is the three w’s. Seeds and species got to Hawaii through wings, water, and wind. There were a few base species that spread out and diversified into the varied environment we have now. Birds flyed to Hawaii from all over the world. They breeded and created new species, our native birds. A bird would eat a plant in it’s homeland, fly to hawaii, and poop. The poop contained seeds of the plant. The seeds grew into the plants we know today as our native plants. Wind was another important factor in species getting to Hawaii. The seeds would fly across the ocean with the wind and come to land in Hawai’i. Once the wind dropped the seeds on the ground, plants would grow. Most of our native hawaiian animals and plants came here via water tides.

On this day in 1863, Union troops capture Lookout Mountain southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee,as they begin to break the Confederate siege of the city. In the “battle above the clouds,” the Yankees scaled the slopes of the mountain on the periphery of the Chattanooga lines.

The Appalachian plateau is the smallest and northern most region in Georgia as well as being home to many superb physical features. Its abundance of natural beauty attracts visitors far and wide to the peach state. It showcases many natural attractions including, infamous Lookout Mountain, Sand Mountain, Cloudland Canyon State Park, Pigeon Mountain, and many more throughout the area stretching from Alabama to New York. The expanse has many natural resources consisting mostly of sedimentary rock-limestone, sandstone, and shale. It also contains resources such as ironstone and is the only known source of coal in Georgia. The Plateau is of great economic significance due to the many coalfields

Have you heard or visited the Providence Canyon? If so don't you think the Federal Government should make it a national park? The Providence Canyon is located in the southwest of Georgia's Coastal Plains. It was nicknamed Georgia's " Little Grand Canyon" because of the beautiful sandstone formations found in that area. The people that have visited this canyon think that it is a beautiful place to go that you can even camp in it. The Providence Canyon was once a forest, but that all changed in the 1800 when farmers moved in the area and started growing crops. There are several things that travelers can see while they are at this little grand canyon.

In the text it clearly states, “ Most organisms are adapted to live within a particular range of temperatures and will not survive at temperatures too far above or below their range.” So it really depends on the climate range in the area a certain plant is living in but most animals survive in most types of weather.

Other goods excavated in Chaco Canyon brings to light trade goods as well. From the Mayan Complex to the American Southwest, the presence of small copper bells has been noted in the archaeological record. During the excavation of Pueblo Bonito in 1899, George H. Pepper noted “… a small number of bells…” among the many artifacts unearthed at the site, (2Noble, 29). Other sites throughout the American Southwest have produced a total of 672 in 113 sites, with Chaco Canyon included. Current studies have implied that these bells from the American Southwest are the Western Mexico, (Boyce,3,36). Simpler in style than those found in the bells found in the larger Mesoamerican complexes, these bells have an unknown use in the traditions of the American

Colorado State Parks are large tourist attractions as well as a significant part of the state. The topic of Parks & Recreation and Tourism is of importance because the state brings in a large amount of funds and provides safety for the environment and wildlife, while providing activities and jobs for those that live here.

The Denver Basin began to form as early as 300 million years ago. The site is made up of paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic and sedimentary rock layers. The formation of the Denver Basin is known as “Colorado Orogeny”. Orogeny is a process in which the Earth’s crust is folded and deformed to create a mountain form. During this process, the Ancestral Rockies were formed. Other rocks formed during this time period include the Fountain Formation; which is most visible at Red Rocks and Boulder Flatirons. The Basin was most likely deepened in the Paleogene time, which was between 66 and 45 million years ago. In between that time period, the Laramide orogeny formed the modern day Colorado Rockies. The Denver Basin is centered in eastern Colorado. Around

Should Providence Canyon become a national park or should this, "Little Grand Canyon," stay a state park? I say that Providence Canyon should not become a national park. These are reasons why. Locals would be the only one to see this Canyon, it is one of the, "Seven Wonders of Georgia," and tourists may affected the plants, colors of the sand, and trails would be used more often which is hurting the environment. Also at national parks they add places to eat, sleep or a place to buy souvenirs.

Providence Canyon is a beautiful place for sight seeing. Many people visit ¨Little Grand Canyon¨ just to see all the great sights it has to offer. In the olden days farmers misused land for growing cotton. Farmers did not realize how bad they were neglecting their land until about a hundred years later. The farmers used the land so much that the soil became ruined and soon started creating small ditches from the amount of erosion. The ¨Little Grand Canyon¨ was becoming unfit, but after a while the erosion and rain made this place into a beautiful state park. According to travelers who visit the forested areas, they made a few wrong turns and thought they were in the America's southwest instead of Georgia's southwest.

The Grand Canyon had a big effect on my life mainly because of its beauty awed me. Going to the Grand Canyon changed me permently just like Olive Wendell Holmes Jr. quote. In the quote it says "A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions"-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.. To me the qoute means that after I affected by a big experience I can never go back to my previous way of thinking and so far this quote remains true to me seeing how I have a new way of thinking. Hiking the Grand Canyon made me think about future traveling to special places. How I should change my lifestyle to extend my lifespan because life is already short. Last to just live life to its fullest don't let anything stop me from achieving my goals.

The following section provides general descriptions of each of the major biomes on the Reservation. Biomes are communities of plants and animals that are typically expected to be found together on the land. For example Gila monster lizards, jack rabbits, creosote bushes, and prickly pear cactus all might be expected to be found in the same place. Natural resource managers would probably classify such a place a “desert scrub” biome and expect to find it in the southwest United States or northwestern Mexico. Climate, geology, and topography are major factors in determining the occurrence and characteristics of biomes across landscapes.

The Colorado River is one of the U.S physical features, and it has the most interesting facts that may change overtime, such as where it begins, how many states and people does the water reach, and the difficulty of others from it’s drought.

Animals of the tundra have had to adapt to the long cold winters and to having to raise their young quickly in the summer. Some other adaptations of animals include thick insulating cover of feathers or fur; large, compact bodies; pelage and plumage that turns white in the winter and brown in the summer; the ability to accumulate thick deposits of fat during the short growing season; hibernation; and migration. Some of the animals that are found living in the tundra are lemmings, voles, caribou, artic hares, squirrels, artic foxes, wolves, polar bear, ravens, snow buntings, falcons, loons, ravens, sandpipers, terns, snow birds, mosquitoes, flies, moths, grasshoppers, black flies, artic bumble bees, cod, flatfish, salmon, and trout. Some of these animals are shared with other neighboring biomes but some are only home to the tundra. The tundra is the simplest biome in terms of species composition and food chain. The neighboring biome of the tundra is the boreal forest (taiga).

Temperate grasslands have a lot of grass and good soil for farming. Temperate grasslands are also called prairies, steppes, or pampas. The weather here is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Some of the animals that live here are rabbits, buffalo, wolves, and insects.