Physiographic regions of the world

1. Describe the physiographic contrasts between Australia and New Zealand. In other words, how are the two countries geographically different? Australia is a vast, dry, low-relief interior, while the island of New Zealand is mountainous with a temperate climate. Australia is one of the oldest rock on the planet, situated in the center of the Australian Plate. New Zealand is younger, therefore less stable because of it location along the Ring of Fire, having plenty of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

Asia has a variety of cultural diversity, containing hundreds of cultures, ethnicities, languages, religions, and economies. 2. Physiographic natural disasters: Southeast Asia is a realm of islands, peninsulas containing high mountains and deep valleys that is under constant threat from natural disasters. From earthquakes, tsunami, to volcano eruptions, this region has seen it all, including cyclones, floods, landslides, and other hazards. The Pacific Rim is part of the Ring of Fire, in 2004 a

236). The regions precipitation is considered moderate with rainfall ranging from 1,300 mm to 1,600 mm, essentially the region has little to no real dry season (Kent 237) The Portuguese began exploring Brazil’s Atlantic Coastal Plain in the early 1500s (Kent 236). In fact, colonization

The climate characteristics of North Dakota vary significantly throughout the state. The state is divided amid four central physiographic regions: the Great Plains, the Missouri Coteau, the Glaciated Plains, and the Red River Valley. The average temperature is different throughout the state, ranging from 37 degrees in in the northeast to 44 degrees along the southern boarder. Though, annual averages are deceptive because they conceal the substantial seasonal temperature disparities shared all through

The project is located at an elevation of ~730 m above mean sea level and within the Basin and Range physiographic province (BR). The BR is composed of high relief mountains or foothills separated by low-lying valleys and salt flats. The salt flats of the Amargosa do not support plant life, but Phreatophytes (deeply rooted plants) occur on their edges and near the adjacent gravel-dominated alluvial fans. Iodine bush (Allenrolfea occidentalis) grows closet to the salt flats, while saltgrass (Distichlis

4. Calgary, Alberta. Population 988,079 5. Edmonton, Alberta. Population: 862,544 2. List of Canada’s rivers Mackenzie River: known as the longest river in Canada, the Mackenzie river passes through the Yukon and Northwest Territories region. The river's length is over 1080 miles long and it goes through Fort Providence, Fort Simpson, Wrigley, Tulita, and Norman Wells. It also gets its main water source from the Great Slave Lake, flowing north

CHAPTER TEN THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA North America is the fourth largest continent of the world. It occupies the next place to Asia, Europe and Africa. Financed by the king and queen of Spain the famous navigator Columbus of Italy discovered America miraculously instead of India in 1492. Many small and large islands surrounding North America are included in this continent. The islands close to North Canada, Greenland, Newfoundland and West Indies are remarkable. Location : The triangular

unique geographically, containing mild to arctic climate zones and 4 geophysical regions; this is very diverse for a single province in Canada. These regions in Quebec allows for a diverse economic industry, including: hydroelectric production, agriculture, forest and mining industries. The economic production through Quebec’s varying geography and their individual French culture and history is what makes Quebec a unique region in Canada. Settlers came from France when Samuel Du Champlain travelled the

semi arid landscapes (Said et al. 13). The catchment is characterized by vastly different physiographic features and species and has become a fundamental component to the survival of the wildlife, as well as the expansion of human population and socio-economic developments. Water, the limited land resource provided by the Ewaso Ng’iro watershed is unevenly distributed throughout the higher and lower regions of the catchment due to the large percentage necessary to maintain agricultural practices

and TM (21-10-1990 and 24-10-2009) satellite data (Path/Row - 139/44) are considered to analyse the spatio-temporal changes of forest in Salbani block. All these satellite data are registered to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, World Geodetic System (WGS) 84 Datum of 45 North Zone and based on 2nd order Nearest Neighbour (NN) algorithm for the corresponding projection of the reference data. The images are clipped based on the block boundary using ERDAS Imagine software v9.0. The