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.