Essay Project 1 Mod 5

Hess, D. (2011). Mcknight's Physical Geography; A Landscapes Appreciation. (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc

The manager will need to ensure that they have the correct level of rapport with their employee. Too familiar in nature may be misconstrued as forward and harassing in the wrong context. However no personal rapport whatsoever may provide the receiver of the information with the impression that the sender of the information is just not interested. A fine line must be weighed up for each individual. When a good rapport has been achieved, then the person will uncritically accept suggestion or advice which they are given.

The climate of the interior plains is continental, which basically means that the climate is relatively dry with extremely hot summers and cold winters. The weather is very diverse and may change quickly without warning. In the North of the physiographic region, the winters are long and the summers are short and cool whereas in the South, the the winters are harsh with little precipitation and long summers. Although the humid weather and the flat lands create an ideal place to grow crops like wheat and corn, the growing season itself is quite short, even in the southern region due to the lack of precipitation needed for diversified crops to flourish. The flat prairies east to the Rockies is a meeting ground for Arctic, Pacific and

1. Explain how observed teleconnection patterns can help in the preparation of a seasonal weather forecast.

California has always had a warm climate, yet its supply of water has rarely been affected. In 2014 California’s water shortage issue truly began. Due to low amounts of snow in the winter in recent years, California has tried to equal out these shortages by drilling water from underground aquifers. Yet, underground aquifers recharge much slower than surface water sources. California has already made significant drawbacks to attempt to limit the amount of water they use, so these aquifers can recharge. But still resources continue going down and the Central Valley Aquifer’s water level is rapidly declining. Luckily, on April 7, 2017 the drought stage of emergency in California was ended. Yet the issue isn’t truly resolved. Glen MacDonald

This is the first of three milestone assignments that will lead to completion of your course project. In this assignment, you will complete Critical Element III: GAAP

Regions with mild temperature tend to have high population density, while regions with severe weather conditions tend to have a low population density.

(1). In case you don’t live here and ain’t aware, southern Louisiana has a warm climate. It’s mid-November as I write this, and in the 70s today. At night it drops into the 40s and 50s, occasionally into the 30s.

Although the weather is constantly changing, the climate for a general area can sometimes surprise you and change as well, especially in areas where the weather is considered “bipolar” since it changes so much.

Due to the lack of rain in the past few years, and particularly in the last few months, California faces severe drought. This is the worst drought in more than one hundred years. The impact of California drought affects community, agriculture, organic ranchers, and dairy farmers. Because of these facts, the United States must rethink the way it uses water. Californians alone are asked to reduce their water usage by twenty percent to prevent water waste.

The city of Sacramento, the state capital of California, is confronted with the need to take action to manage current water consumption trends with respect to climate change, an increase in population, and an increase in business. Residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural demand for water are rising during the recent period of drought that triggered the notion of conservation efforts statewide and the potential for water supply shortage is extremely high. This is a plan to respond to the crisis by changing the way the city manages its water supply by enacting new structured fees for business and residential water consumption tiers and furnishing an educational program designed to familiarize consumers with the enforcement of a new tiered fee structure. The proposal is written in response the state’s 20x2020 plan that dictates universal water reduction with the intention of reaching a fixed 20% of overall water consumption reduction by the end of the decade, and the CALGreen building code that regulates the implementation of water-saving technology in new and existing construction.

1. Based on the readings from weeks one and two, discuss the images of America the European writers constructed to promote colonization and settlement. What kinds of unique natural resources and environmental factors did they extol in their accounts of the New World? Relate these images to natural resources and environmental factors today.

There are a lot of unique characteristics in the 5 climographs above. The climograph on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania shows that the hottest time in Pittsburgh is around June (around 27 degrees Celsius), and the coldest time is around January (around 3 degrees Celsius). In addition, it shows that there are fairly large amounts of precipitation throughout the year. The climograph on Death Valley, California shows that it is fairly hot all throughout the year with very low precipitation. The coldest it gets in Death Valley is around January (around 20 degrees Celsius), and the highest amount of precipitation is during February (around 13 millimeter). Similarly to Pittsburgh, in Hartford, Connecticut there are large amounts of precipitation and around

I. (Main Point = Need) According to NASA climate is made up of two things. Those two things are the climates of certain locations during the different seasons and the Earth’s climate which is a combination of all those different induvial climates.

The overall climate of a region is typically dependent on several key factors. First and foremost are the factors of the geography of a location. Mountain ranges, lakes, rivers and oceans have major impacts on the overall climate of a location. For example mountain ranges tend to block wind flow causing intense rain showers along the windward side of the mountain range and dry near dessert like conditions on the eastern side of the range. The North America has a rather unique geography in that on either side of the continent there are major mountain ranges with a large ocean gulf. This results in wind flow being disrupted along the western coast causing heavy rain falls along the coastal areas fairly arid plains to the west of the rocky mountains. However due to the gulf of Mexico and wind flow from this body of water, moisture is able to travel northward and interact with the drier air in