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Great Places to Visit
By: Jared McMullen
My Notes on Japan
Location: Far East
Geographic Features:
Climate: South Japan is tropical while North japan is cool
Natural Resources: Mineral resources and fish
Agriculture:
Special Landmarks or Sites:
Other Interesting::
Large island. Next to an archipelago.
15% of Japan’s land is given for agriculteral purposes
Tokyo Tower, Hanazono Jinja (shrine), Kaminari Gate
8.61 million foreiners visited Japan in 2010
My Notes on Virginia
Location:
Geographic Features:
Climate:
Natural Resources:
Agriculture:
Special Landmarks or Sites:
Other Interesting::
Fort Monroe, Pentagon, Williamsburg District.
Eastern United States
On the coast
8 former presidents were born in Virginia
Farming is a Major part of Virginia. Major products include tobacco, Sweet potatoes, and peanuts.
Soils, minerals, fisheries, waterpower, and lumber.
Mild, known for it’s severe weather such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
My Notes on Tanzania
Location: Eastern Africa
Geographic Features: Many LAKES Mountains and Natural Parks
Climate: Tropical Climate, Highlands- 50-68˚ Rest of Tanzania- 68-87.8˚
Natural Resources: Hydropower, tin, gemstones, gold, coal, gas, nickel, diamonds, iron ore, phosphates.
Agriculture: Tanzania is a functional region. It works off of of agricultural land
Special Landmarks or Sites: Mount Kalimanjaro, Zanzibar coral Reefs, Lake Manyara National Park.
Other Interesting: Mount Kalimanjaro in Tanzania has the highest point in africa.
My Notes on Washington
Location: Northwestern United States
Geographic Features: Many mountains and national parks. Much farmland.
Climate: west coast marine climate, Dry seasons, Spiraling air/wind.
Natural Resources: timber, produce, fish, hydroelectric power
Agriculture: Dry farming. One of americas highest agricultural source
Special Landmarks or Sites: Mt. Rainer Olympic national Park, and
Other Interesting:: There is a myth that bigfoot lives in the olympic mountains.
My Notes on California
Location: SouthWestern United States
Geographic Features: Home to many Mountains, valleys, Trees!!!, and desert land
Climate: Rainy Winters, dry summers. Cool in the summer, warm in the winter along the coastal areas.
Natural Resources: Wind, Water resources, Hydropower, Grasses, solar.
Agriculture: Just like Washington, California is one of americas most agricultural states
Special Landmarks or Sites: Sierra nevada mountains, Central Valley, Mojave Desert.
Other Interesting: The population as of September 22 is 37,884,942Home to record breaking trees. The tallest, oldest, and massivest.
Natural Resources ListMineral Resources- any resources that come from nature
Fish-Fish are natural resources because we humans use them for many things. Some of those things are fish oil, food, fish, fish scales, and many other things.
Hydropower- Hydroelectric power
Coal- a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter.
Gas- any such combustible fluid used as fuel
Iron ore- An ore from which Iron can be extracted
Phosphates- a salt or ester of phosphoric acid.
Wind- Power given from wind by a power plant such as a windmill
Water Resources- Power given from water by a power plant such as a generator turbine
List the 5 themes of geography•Movement-People Goods Ideas
inventions•Region- Formal Functional and
Vernacular regions•Place- Human and Physical interactions•Location- Relative and absolute
locations•Human-environmental
Interactions- people can modify adapt and depend on the environment.
references
Wikipedia.org
Geographic.com
Various sources of pictures from google pictures
Plus Agamenoni.com and Wikispaces.com for project information.
Hope you can visit and enjoy these different places.