The WestBy: Maria Zabel

Location

Location

Major Cities Los Angeles, California (Population-12,875,587)San Francisco, California (Population- 7,468,390)Phoenix, Arizona (4,281,899)

Landforms Rocky Mountains-extends more than 3,000 miles across the western part of America Great Basin- A large desert that covers 200,000 sq. miles in California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming Mt. Rainer-14,410, 4,392 meters, Cascade in Washington, Highest peak in Washington

ResourcesFishing-Crabs, fish, oysters, scallops, shrimpMining- Coal, copper, gold, lead, national gas, oil, silver, uranium, zinc

Location

Relative location to a compassWest of the United States

Longitude and Latitude (Largest City)34° 3’ 8’’ N / 118° 14’ 34’’ W

Reasons People Live HereThey like the locationThe weather is really nice too

Place

Place Customs, Religions, Ethnic GroupsCustoms-Christians, MexicansReligions-Christianity

ResourcesAgricultural landsOilSolar PowerCopperSilver

LandformsRocky MountainsGreat BasinMt. Rainer Mt. McKinleyMt. HoodGreat Plains

Place

Climate and Weather PatternsWinter – 50°sSummers – 90°s-100°sFall - 70°sSpring - 80°s - 90°s

Weather Affecting the Settlement

Human Environmental-Interactions

Human Environmental-Interactions

Economic Issues Debt Unemployment

Climate Affecting the Settlement They would have to dress in shorts because of the hot climate they have and the unexpected weather changes

Pollution Affecting the SettlementNo, because the pollution is bad at all in the western region

Movement

Movement

Why People Live herePeople live here because of the nice, hot summer they get. The winter are nice and warm too

Goods TransportationBy: Highways RiversAirportsFreewaysRailwaysRailroads

Major transportation interruptedPeople wouldn’t get there items when they wantedTransportation would have to find a different way

Regions

Regions

Tourist AttractionsYellow Stone – WyomingCayonlands – Utah Rocky Mountains – ColoradoYosemite – CaliforniaIdaho Falls – Idaho

Work Citied

http://tricare.mil/mybenefit/ProfileFilter.do;jsessionid=PzQPJv41JfSy4QT9wXJ0pzkTp6C1fXfTtvyTGLGG9lGf6H5nV9qn!-541484568?puri=%2Fhome%2Foverview%2FRegions%2FRegionsUS%2FWest

http://library.thinkquest.org/4552/newpage5.htm

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/

http://tricare.mil/mybenefit/home/overview/Regions/RegionsUS/West

http://www.askkids.com/resource/West-Regions-Climate.html

http://www.caves.org/region/western/