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  United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
This region consists of the rolling Ozark Plateau (see Ozarks) to the north and the Ouachita Mountains, which are similar in structure to the ridge and valley section of the Appalachians, to the east.
The United States has a broad range of climates, varying from the tropical rain-forest of Hawaii and the tropical savanna of S Florida (where the Everglades are found) to the subarctic and tundra climates of Alaska.
The Congress of the United States, the legislative branch, is bicameral and consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
www.bartleby.com /65/us/US.html   (14703 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
In a physiographic view, however, the area of the United States may be divided into the Appalachian belt, the Cordilleras, and the central plains.
In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state.
It also provides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states; for the return of fugitives from justice and for the admission of new states.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15156a.htm   (21335 words)

  
 The United States of America - Nevada information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A stark and arid land, Nevada is a region of rugged, snow-capped peaks, desert valleys green with sage, and sparsely populated expanses that still retain the vestiges of the Old West.
Ranches in Nevada are correspondingly large; the average farm size in the state is 920 hectares (2,270 acres), one of the the highest averages in the country.
United States cavalry troops from California were called and exacted revenge in a second battle at Pyramid Lake in which perhaps 160 Paiutes were killed; the rest was forced to return to the Pyramid Lake Reservation.
www.theusaonline.com /states/nevada.htm   (11412 words)

  
 Physiographic Regions of Virginia
Physiographic region boundaries are based on geology, soil types, and topography.
Physiographic regions are not based on cultural or biological features - the edges of cities or forests do not define the edges of physiographic provinces.
Note that the edges of physiographic provinces are not mapped at a detailed scale, such as the 1:24,000 quadrangle maps used by hikers or the 1:400 scale plats used by county assessors for property tax purposes.
www.virginiaplaces.org /regions/physio.html   (1463 words)

  
 Soil Survey Region 16 | Arkansas NRCS Soils
Soil Survey Region 16 located in Little Rock, Arkansas, is one of 17 Soil Survey Region Offices serving the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) in the United States and its trust territories.
A MLRA is a physiographic region that is similar in climate, topography, water resources, land use, and pattern of soils.
Region 16 is committed to producing high-quality soil surveys within the region by completing surveys in those areas not having a soil survey, by coordinating and updating all soil surveys in the region to a common standard across state boundaries, and by exploring new ways to provide soils information to our clients.
www.ar.nrcs.usda.gov /soils/mo16.html   (249 words)

  
 Physiographic Regions of Michigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
For example, the Alps might be one kind of physiographic region, as may be the North Slope of Alaska, or the Mojave Desert.
The region as a whole can be characterized as gently rolling to hilly with a considerable amount of relatively level topography and many lakes and poorly drained land.
On the northern edge of the region, a high sandy plain marks the dividing line between the densely populated portions of the Lower Peninsula and the more sparsely populated areas to the north.
www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/phy-regions.html   (1445 words)

  
 Regions of the United States
There are thirty-six shorebird planning regions and bird consevations regions in the country.
The country is in the nearctic zoographic region.
The population of the country is divided into 4 regions with the South being the larget.
www.geocities.com /pegmihedu/Regions.html   (820 words)

  
 EPA Region 4 Honors Environmental Merit Award Recipients   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cowan serves as the Chairman of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) whose mission is to provide citizens with transportation choices, improved air quality and better land use to enhance their quality of life and promote sustained growth for future generations.
This state-of-the art facility will use recycled materials, including recycled paper and synthetic gypsum for all of its primary raw material requirements and is capable of producing 900 million square feet of drywall per year.
The cooperation of federal and state agencies, non-profit organizations and the public was instrumental in the success of this project.
www.epa.gov /region4/oeapages/00press/001019.htm   (7753 words)

  
 Unique Facts About the United States of America: The Rocky Mountains
Mount Robson (12,972 feet/3954 m) is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies.
The Rocky Mountains are commonly defined to stretch from the Liard River in British Columbia, down to the Rio Grande in New Mexico.
However, the region is an extremely popular tourist destination.
www.sheppardsoftware.com /usaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-USA6.htm   (475 words)

  
 United States Geography - Glossary
The period from the average date of the last frost (in the United States, this occurs in the spring) to the first frost in the fall.
Lying or formed at the base of mountains; in the United States, an area in the southern states at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
A treeless plain characteristic of the arctic and subarctic regions.
countrystudies.us /united-states/geography-25.htm   (3605 words)

  
 Northern Mixed-grass Prairie, Physiographic Area 37 - Executive Summary
The southern edge of this physiographic area is the terminus of a glacial moraine now marked by the course of the Missouri River.
In the United States, grass height gradually decreases beyond the western boundary of this physiographic area.
The human population density of this physiographic area is one of the lowest in the contiguous United States.
www.blm.gov /wildlife/pl_37sum.htm   (722 words)

  
 birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
The non-metropolitan region of the piedmont is a mix of small towns, agricultural habitats, patches of mixed deciduous and pine forests and is traversed by several large rivers and dotted with a few man-made lakes.
The Delmarva peninsula comprises the state of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia.
For those wondering, the Delmarva Peninsula is that region of the United States made up of contiguous sections of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia and surrounded by water on three sides.
www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/america_united_states/virginia.html   (3681 words)

  
 BIODIVERSITY AND PROBABLE ORIGINS OF THE MAYFLIES (EPHEMEROPTERA) OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES - NABS99 ...
The states with the most varied physiographic provinces appear to have higher mayfly diversity than the states that are confined to the Coastal Plain.
A simple cluster analysis using Unweighted Pair Group Mathematical Averaging (UPGMA) was used to measure the similarities of the mayfly fauna of the various states in the region.
The high diversity of the mayfly fauna of the Southeastern United States appears related to the geologic history, climatic conditions, and varied physiographic provinces of the region.
www.benthos.org /database/nabstracts99.cfm/ID/480   (223 words)

  
 Watershed, White River, Geology Chapter
The watershed is located within the Interior Highlands physiographic province of the United States.
The Missouri portion of the watershed lies almost entirely within the Salem Plateau region, a subdivision of the larger Ozark Plateau physiographic region, with a small portion of the watershed’s northwest edge in the Springfield Plateau, also a subdivision of the Ozark Plateau.
The Arkansas portion of the watershed also lies within the Salem Plateau and Springfield Plateau physiographic regions, and its southern-most edge is in the Boston Mountains physiographic region (Fenneman 1938).
www.mdc.missouri.gov /fish/watershed/whriver/geology/390getxt.htm   (1519 words)

  
 Past and present forest composition and natural history of Deep Woods, Hocking County, Ohio (1). | North America > ...
In particular, floristic data can be used for regional biological inventories, research, impact assessment, and policy formation (Palmer and others 1995).
Moreover, there is an increasing need to identify representative habitats in major physiographic provinces of Ohio and to establish all taxa biotic inventories (ATBI).
The area lies within the Cliff Section of the Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus of the mixed mesophytic forest region of Braun (1950).
www.allbusiness.com /north-america/united-states-ohio/617010-1.html   (1006 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Rocky Mountains Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3000 miles (4800 km) from Mexico, through the continental United States, into Canada and Alaska.
The highest peak is Mount Elbert, in Colorado, which is 14,433 feet (4399 m) above sea level.
The Rocky Mountains were created during what geologists call the Laramide orogeny during a period that started 70 million years ago and ended 30 million years ago.
fav.ipedia.com /rocky_mountains.html   (701 words)

  
 The North American Breeding Bird Survey-95.1
As part of this effort, information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey is used to evaluate regional patterns of bird population change.
Modified versions of the physiographic strata used in the BBS were developed by PIF staff and regional working groups in cooperation with Danny Bystrak, Sam Droege, Bruce Peterjohn, and John Sauer.
These results were estimated for physiographic strata developed by regional working groups associated with Partners in Flight.
www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov /bbs/pif/pif.old   (398 words)

  
 About the shaded relief map of the United States
Two tectonic regimes are the static eastern United States, a passive continental margin, and the active plate margin of the west.
The major physical regions of the U.S. (small map) were recognized partly on the basis of important contrasts in topography.
The map is accompanied by a pamphlet explaining how image processing and computer graphics have automated the art of landscape portrayal.
geology.wr.usgs.gov /wgmt/shdrelmap.html   (621 words)

  
 Farm Resource Regions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
ERS recently constructed a new set of regions depicting geographic specialization in production of U.S. farm commodities.
ERS will use the new regions to display results of its analyses in a broad array of venues from briefings to publications, our web site, and journal articles.
This pamphlet introduces the new ERS Farm Resource Regions, explains their origin and rationale, and serves as a reference for our clients.
www.ers.usda.gov /publications/aib760   (91 words)

  
 MLRA Office 12 - Northeast Area Region | Massachusetts NRCS
The Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) Office 12 in Amherst, Massachusetts is one of several regional MLRA offices serving the National Cooperative Soil Survey in the United States and its trust territories.
coordination, quality assurance and assistance to state and project soil survey offices located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and parts of New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Check out the latest information for the Northeastern Forest Soils Conference.
www.ma.nrcs.usda.gov /neasoils/index.html   (111 words)

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