Introduction and Climate
The state of Hawaii is composed of 132 islands, reefs and shoals that extend for over 1500 miles across the central North Pacific Ocean from the "Big Island" of Hawaii to midway and Kure Atolls. The eight main islands of Hawaiian Archipelago include Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Nihau and Kahoolawe (listed in order of size) which extend for only 350 miles at the south-eastern end of the volcanic mountain chain. Hawaii includes some of the earth’s largest mountains, rising from oceanic depths of greater than 18,000 feet to a height above sea level of nearly 14,000 feet. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island are volcanic mountains with a total relief of 32,000 feet. The entire Island of
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The West side of the Island has near desert-like conditions, while the summit of Waialeale is the wettest spot in the world, with an average rainfall of almost 500 inches per year. Normally, the rugged, mountainous interior has much more rainfall than the coastal areas where most communities are located. The Maritime Tropical air mass highly influences Kalalau Valley, Kauai. With its warm and humid weather that it brings in we see how the Island of Kauai goes from stable to conditionally unstable. The convectional lifting of the air masses around the Island of Kauai shows how an air mass passes a maritime source and it causes lifting in the air mass. If the conditions of the Island are unstable then the lifting is sustained and clouds develop. This is why the temperatures and the rainfall vary with certain spots. For example, Average rainfall ranges from 35 inches at poipu Beach to 444 inches at the summit of Waialeale. The general circulation that influences Kalalau Valley is the Northeast trade winds. The subtropical high and the southeast trade winds affect the valley as well. Mainly the northeast trade winds and the southeast trade winds influence the state of the Hawaiian Islands. The Island of Kauai and Kalalaua Valley are located in the Tropical Rainforest region. The pattern of precipitation and temperature for Kauai between January 1st and December 31st, was between 45 and 70 for temperature in Fahrenheit. The minimum temperature is about 50
Located in the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii and the Hawaiian Islands are the cone-shaped tops of gigantic ocean volcanoes.
Essentially, the key fact that makes the islands of Hawaii so unique and worthy of studying is that nearly the entire mountain range is built entirely by volcanic activity and each island is the top of an enormous volcanic mountain. These exceptional qualities fuel the study of how the islands themselves were created, in order to answer the curiosities behind the composition of some of the most extravagant volcanoes in the world.
Geography had a tremendous impact on early civilizations, the topography of the different regions played a key role in their development and formation. This statement by Fernand Braudel “ Geography is the stage in which humanity’s endless dramas are played out” (Getz et al., Exchanges, 26) is a very moving and telling description. The terrain, whether it is natural or man made is not the end all, be all. It does however affect the stage a great deal. Mountainous areas act as blockades, which keep the societies independent, plains open up the area, and rivers enable everything to move around freely. 2
In 400 C.E. the Hawaiian islands were settled by Polynesian voyagers.They had each island ruled by different chief’s and conflict was normal for them.At the same time they still had law’s and a class system not influenced by foreigners until captain cook arrived at Kealakekua Bay,hawaii in January,18,1778.But the most important person in Hawaiian history is king Kahmehameha he concord all the islands and became ruler of the whole island chain.Also he was an expert leader, politician,intelligent and caring about his subjects.
The trail cloud band develops around noon and peaks in cloudiness in the early afternoon. The analysis of numerical simulations of the Kauai wake suggests that a dynamically induced convergence zone forms in the lee of Kauai. Images have distinctly shown “excessive cloudiness and a peak in trail clouds” that are most likely a result of island thermal forcing, and additionally displays an escalation in cloudiness over the Kauai wake, which yet again verifies the “importance of diurnal variation of island heating/cooling” and island thermal forcing (Yang, Xie, & Hafner, 2007). Additionally, trade winds that come and travel across from the northeast carry moisture-laden clouds that instigate high chances of precipitation, which yet again inflicts changes on the windward and leeward sides on the wake of
A lot of roads are different than roads in the main land. Human characteristics includes natives beating up or harming “foreigners” (haole). Most humans are Hawaiian or Japanese. The natural environment is the mountain peak pu’u kukui. And the beach all other land is houses and resorts. The difference between Wailuku and other towns in hawaii is the reason it was built, the history, the wars and battles, and the central of government. At this day and age it is a mix of many different cultures. In the ancient times there was only polynesian culture. At this time it is around half native hawaiians and half a mixtures of different
There is lots of strategies that have led the ancient empires to their success and staying strong. .Geography was a huge part of history, this is because many people live upon geography. They rely on geography to live. To add on, the success and failures all come from geography, which is very important. Ancient Egypt had many ups and downs through their empire, geography helped them a lot for planting crops and getting resources. Ancient Greece was affected by the geography near their location a lot. The Aksum empire heavily relied on the geography near their empire, it helped them a lot with the way they traded with other empires. In all of the empires, geography was the breaker or the winner and determined whether the empire would fall or
Outline the geographical processes relevant to the management of the Cronulla, Wanda and Kurnell area.
1. In a compared map of the Holy Land and the state of New Jersey, there are not a lot of differences in the amount of land. Although the Holy Land does not provide important resources, people have been fighting over it throughout history.
Mauna Kea is currently the tallest mountain in the Hawaiian Chain. 4,205 meters above sea level, Mauna Kea is located on the island of Hawaii. It is the second largest surface that comprises of the five volcanoes on Mauna Kea. With Mauna Kea being the largest Mountain in the Hawaiian chain, it is a popular location to look into the galaxies, to find the origin of life.
1. The reasons why some buildings are in the floodplains is because of agricultural industry. Another reason is population growth and expansion into those areas where people felt safe because of improvements of levees. Even though people were told about the dangers most people relied on disaster insurance instead of flood insurance. There should be laws that prohibit further development of these areas because it is costing the taxpayers lots of money for people that want to live in these areas that know the risks. If there were laws in place they could use some of the land as soccer fields and football fields as overflow ponds if they do want to build in a floodplain they need to raise the ground up by hauling in soils that will let the water pass through into those overfill ponds.
Over the last four weeks, we have learned about Hawaii’s Economic Outlook. We look a look at the growths and decline of Hawaii’s economy through looking at the Hawaii’s GDP and comparing it the whole nations GDP. The next week we learned about Hawaii’s expansion and contraction. During this week, we focused on different factors that caused Hawaii’s economic ups and downs thought Hawaii’s history. The third week we, learned about Hawaii’s economical structure, which focused on diversification in Hawaii’s economy. The fourth week we talked about price, inflation and costs of living in Hawaii. During this week we learned about different factors that causes Hawaii’s high cost of living.
The geography of Indiana includes land regions, location, and different features. Indiana has three different and distinct land regions. The first region is The Great Lake Plains. The Great Lake Plains has very rich soil, which is good for farming corn and crops. Indiana also needs the rich soil for gardening plants and flowers. The Great Lake Plains also have glaciers that formed small lakes, ridges, and small hills. The next region is The Till Plains. The Till Plains also has very rich soil starting from Kansas and Nebraska. The Till Plains is almost flat land, it goes to the center of the state and lies south of The Great Lake Plains, it also has low hills and valleys. The final region is The Southern Hills and Lowland. The Southern Hills and lowlands doesn’t have rich soil. The soil won’t be as good for farming as the other regions. The Southern Hills and Lowlands have deposits of coal and
1) Modern astronomy basically begins with the re-emergence of the heliocentric view of the universe by Copernicus. Who were the four other major contributors to the development of modern astronomy after Copernicus? Explain what those contributions were. Finally, why did it take so long for the geocentric view of the universe to be overthrown and what does that tell us about scientific research and our society, even today?
But, the big island and oahu are also very different an example of this is the five volcanoes Kohala, Mauna Kea, Hualalai, Mauna