Gulf Coast- The Gulf Coast stretches along the Gulf of Mexico for hundreds of miles. Cities such as Corpus Christi, Galveston, and Houston are in the Gulf Coast region. Near the gulf waters you can see marshes, barrier islands, estuaries (where salty sea water and fresh river water meet), and bays. As you travel west, you can see prairies and grasslands. The Gulf Coast is home to many wildlife and plants.
The IRL serves as both a spawning ground as well as a nursery for many species found in both lagoon and ocean settings. The IRL contains in excess of 4000 animal as well as plant species, including manatees, dolphins, coastal birds, sea turtles, mangroves, and many species of sea grass. Approximately 35% of the country’s population of manatees resides in or regularly migrates through the lagoon. The IRL’s bird populations are among the largest in North America (Dybas, 2002). The IRL is both a unique, and diverse, shallow-water estuary of national significance and makes up approximately 40% of Florida’s east coast.
Joshua Tree National Park/Monument Joshua Tree National Park is enormous, nearly 800,000 acres, and more than 1000 species between plants and animals. It is one of the jewels of the Mojave Desert. Around 230 kilometers east of Los Angeles and close to Palm Springs is the Joshua Tree National Park. Founded in 1994, and the area around the Little San Bernardino Mountains, covers an region of more than 2,000 square. Mutually the recognition and name of the park comes from the countless and incredible Joshua Trees that decorate its unusual scenery.
The Grampians national park is covering 167,000 hectares is one of the largest National Parks in Victoria. The park is nationally significant for its extraordinary variety of native flora and fauna and the many Aboriginal rock art sites. Its spectacular scenery, rugged mountain ranges, colorful wildflowers and wonderful opportunities for outdoor recreation have made it one of the Victoria's
Bald Eagles: Learning their Majesty The bald eagles many unique attributes proves its superiority, majesty and power. What truly catches our eyes about the eagle? The eagle is believed to have been here before European settlers first sailed to America's shores, bald eagles may have numbered half a million. They existed along the Atlantic from Labrador to the tip of south Florida, and along the Pacific from Baja California to Alaska. They inhabited every large river and concentration of lakes within North America.
The fresh water sloughs are the most common ecosystem in the Everglades (U.S. Department of the Interior, 2010). These drainage channels or water channels flow an estimated 100 feet per day. From these sloughs groves or prairies of sawgrass grow up to 6 feet or more in height. In these sloughs also grow broad-leafed marsh plants and has become known as the “River of Grass”. There is also what is called freshwater marl prairies which are similar to sloughs but do not have the slow water movement, water seeps though the calcite muds hence the name marl.
Discuss the origin and significance of diversity within and between species using a named taxonomic group of your choice It is thought that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor despite the enormous variation of organisms found across the globe. The significance and origin of this diversity will be discussed using examples from the Salamanders ( Order: Caudata) which is composed of 10 families( see figure 1) and approximately 400 species that due to a wide array of adaptive features occupy grasslands, forest canopies, caves, rivers, seasonal ponds and other aquatic environments across Eurasia and the Americas (Davic,et al 2004) Figure 1 showing the families of Caudata and their phylogenetic relationship (Larson et al,2006) The origin of Variation within species Within a species there is a vast amount of variation with no two individuals being identical (Darwin, 1859). The cause of variation within a species is primarily due to genetic reasons and to some extent environmental factors (Campbell et al. 2005). The genetic factors can be subdivided into mutations and chromosomal activity during sexual reproduction.
Profile of the Hunter Catchment The Hunter River drains the largest coastal catchment in New South Wales, covering some 22,000 square kilometres. It supports a great diversity of land uses, industries and urban settlements, with agriculture, power generation and tourism some of the largest contributors to the regional, state and national economies. Activity 1 Access the following website to answer the questions below: http://www.environment.gov.au/water/policy-programs/nwqms/wqip/nsw/hunter.html 1. Identify the name of your local river catchment and the mountain ranges that border around it. The Hunter River Estuary catchment is bordered in the north-west by the Liverpool Ranges, to the west by the Great Dividing Range, and to the north and north-east by Mt
A. Anchorage –the biggest city in Alaska, visit the Alaska ZOO B. The Wrangell – Saint Elias National Park –ten active volcanoes can be found in here, along with majorities of Alaska’s glaciers C. Prince William Sound- boat rides, watching marine mammals and eagles in natural habitat III. Alaska’s Southwest attracts for its wildlife watching and largest
Jake Mazziotti December 3/2013 Number 13 How did the Nile shape ancient Egypt The nile is the longest river in the world-over 4000 miles. The nile shaped many aspects of ancient Egypt society,includings settlement distributions its agriculture system and its spiritual life.One aspect of egyptian society that was influenced by the nile was its population distribution. Most of the population have along the nile flood plain (Doc A) map shows 20 settlements. Everyone is either in the delta or narrow nile valley. The nile did more than shape the settlements its determened life without would be impossible.