Compared to the surrounding cities, the crime rate is good and residents feel safe. Open Space: Glendale is a city with a highly concentrated population. Homes are very close to each other and there is little open space other than the parks. In the Grandview neighborhood, there are several smaller neighborhood parks and two larger ones. Additionally, Glendale is bordered by Griffith Park which is a 5,000 natural area with hiking trails, picnic areas, golf course and more.
The United States has many big cities like New York City, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago. Each of these cities is bigger than Berlin, which is the biggest city in Germany. Germany instead has many small villages with a population of about00 3,000-6,000 people, furthermore a large part of the Germans live in villages in which the population is smaller than 1,000. These villages are less than five kilometers apart which makes it easier to interact with people from other villages. It is like a big network of many small villages which is in contrast to the US completely the opposite.
Also, they border the North Pacific Ocean to the west. However, Canada also borders the North Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Arctic Ocean to the north and covers most of the northern part of the North American continent. Its area is 9,984,670 sq km and the area of Mexico is 1,972,550 sq km. Therefore, Canada is about 5 times as big as Mexico. Secondly, there are some similarities and differences in their culture and language.
Egypt’s history is divided into three parts. Old kingdoms, middle kingdoms, and new kingdoms. During each of these periods’ different dynasties of pharos ruled. Mesopotamia and Egypt were different in terms of interaction and exchange because Egypt had grounds, watermelon, donkeys, and cattle. Mesopotamia had
1. Influence of Physical environment on Ancient Society including: a. Location, Geography, Topography and Resources of Persian Empire and its Neighbours Location, geography and topography  Empire ruled by Darius and Xerxes stretched from Black Sea and Caspian Sea  Steppes of Turkestan in north, to Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea in south, from Egypt and Aegean Sea in west, to Indus River and Jaxartes River in east  Covered 5 million square km  Population of 10 million  Topographic features include rugged mountain ranges (densely forested), low-lying deserts, fertile plains with rivers and streams and extensive coastline Resources  Size of empire meant limitless no. of resources  Metals s.a. iron, copper, gold and tin  Semi-precious stones s.a. opals, tourquoise, emeralds  Trees e.g. forests of oak, walnut, almond  Stone s.a. marble  Sheep, goats and cattle which were grazed all over empire  Agricultural produce s.a. cereal crops, figs and pomegranates, vines, dates, flax, wool and silk 2.
Land Use Changes in the River Tees Drainage Basin The River Tees is located in the North of England, between North Yorkshire and Durham. Its source is located on the eastern slope of Cross Fell, one of the highest hills in the Northern Pennines at 893 metres (2930 feet). It then continues for about 85 miles (137 kilometres) before reaching Tees Bay in the North Sea just south of Hartlepool. The River Tees starts off in Cumbria as a series of small trickles, exuding out of the wet moorland on the eastern side of Cross Fell. The trickles join up to form a small stream, thin, rocky and turbulent.
There are many different types of biome and there is also a good variety of ways to their classification. In general, biomes can be grouped into four major categories according to the nature of vegetation: forest, grassland, desert, and tundra (Arbogast, 2007). The forest biomes, representing a third of the Earth’s land, are dictated primarily by trees (WorldBiomes.com, 2009). These biomes span a great climatic range from wet equatorial to cold subarctic (Strahler, 1975), such as tropical rainforest, tropical deciduous forest and scrub, Mediterranean woodland and shrub forest, mid-latitude coniferous forest, and boreal forest (Christopherson, 2006). The grassland biomes are usually semi-arid areas of land dominated by grass as the main form of vegetation with little or no trees, such as tropical savannah and mid-latitude grassland (WorldBiomes.com, 2009).
The first civilizations to appear in history started on a river valley or in a place where resources are numerous and example of these are in India where Indus river is found and Tigris where Euphrates is found and many other places (cradles of civilization). The Nile is the longest river in the world, cuts a swath of green and life through the bareness of the giant Sahara desert in northern Africa. It is almost 4160 miles long from its remotest head stream, the Lavironza river in Burundi, in central Africa to its delta on the Mediterranean sea north east of Egypt. The river flows northward and drain 1100100 square miles, about tenth the size of Africa, passing through ten African countries. It has many tributaries but there are two main ones: the White Nile fed by lake Victoria and the Blue Nile coming from Ethiopian mountains.
The reservoir behind the dam is 660km long and has a surface area of 1,045km2. Although the dam is effectively a wall across the river, the navigation has been improved by building a series of 5 locks alongside the dam. The site of the Three Gorges Dam was chosen over 15 other sites based on the following advantages: • The valley floor was wide and low making building easy • The Yangtze has huge HEP potential • The bedrock is firm with limited crack making a firm foundation • Although in a seismically active (earthquake region) there have been few earthquakes near the site of the dam • There was a small island making construction of a diversion channel easy during construction • Workers could easily be moved to the site • The relocation of people was not really an issue in Communist China. The project began in 1994 by the Chinese government. It was designed to prevent flooding downstream and power up to 15% of China’s energy requirements.
Salonga National Park | Randall Baird | May 5, 2011 | Luciana RobinsonSCI 230 | The Salonga National Park is the largest tropical rain forest in Africa, and the second largest in the world. It is located in the center of the Congo River basin, and it is home to one of the largest and most diverse endemic endangered species in the world. Since the forest is isolated and only accessible by air or water, it makes an ideal location to support the diverse species of plant and animal life found within the park. The National Park covers over a third of the Salonga-Lukenie-Sankuru forest, and the landscape varies from swamp lands to dry lands. Due to the fact it is near the continental equatorial, the climate is hot and humid with an average rainfall of 2000mm over most of the reserve, and falls to 1700m in the south, with a slightly drier season from June to August.