SubscribeAlaska is located mainly in the subarctic climate zone, the bulk of the territory is located in the temperate and subarctic zone, south Florida – in the tropics. On the climate impact of a strong proximity effect of the ocean. In winter the greater part of Alaska covered the air from [...]
Nature and climate of Florida
The most important advantage of Florida is its nature and climate. Florida beckons visitors with its unique nature, provided a variety of landscapes, rich flora and fauna.
Florida is located entirely on a large plateau, part of which is above sea level. Interestingly, the Florida peninsula itself in the distant past, was under water. This affected [...]
Nature of Alaska. USA
Nature – the main attraction in Alaska. Forest full of wildlife, lakes and bays full of fish, mountains and plains filled with snow, seem designed for racing snowmobiles (this is a hobby of many local residents), glaciers, fjords. Hunting (for someone not less successful photography), fishing, mushrooms, berries, lack of snakes and ticks – it’s [...]
Yellowstone – the largest national park of USA
Yellowstone Forest, which spreads in the three states, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho – a real wonderland that is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists to rest the soul of the unspoilt countryside.
These lands are the white people of America have discovered early last century, but, however, did not pay them much attention. Only in [...]
Mississippi River
Mississippi in the United States ranks second in length with the result of 3730 kilometers. If we assume, along with Missouri, the influx of Mississippi, it turns out, the river is the largest in the country and fourth in the world.
translated from the Native American Ojibwa language it means – the great river. Interestingly, the [...]
Niagara Falls
Niagara River, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada, an average of its course forms the three falls. Their names – U.S., Canada (commonly referred to as horseshoes) and Fata bride. High waterfall about 53 meters. The width of the lead Horseshoe Falls – he swung by as much as 792 meters, American [...]
Great American Lakes
Great American lakes contain 1 / 5 of Earth’s freshwater. And supply water to about fifty countries in the world. And just a few thousand years ago, this place was a wilderness.
Another 12 thousand years ago Europe and North America were ice deserts. No rustling of the forest, not flowing river. The ice lay on [...]
Mc Kinley Mountain and Denali National Park
The highest peak in North America – Mount McKinley (6194 m), and its royal reflected in the waters of the lake, rightly called the lake Wonderland – important, but not the only
that attracts tourists in Denali National Park (McKinley) in Alaska. It is named after the 25th U.S. president, but the locals styled her name, [...]
US Cordillera
US Cordillera or South American Cordillera, correspond to the most general part of the mountain belt and have a great variety of natural conditions. High forested ridges, covered with snowfields and glaciers, directly adjoin here with extensive drainless desert plateau. The climate is subtropical on the coast of the Mediterranean, in the inner parts of [...]
US Climatic Zones
The USA has a great variety of climatic conditions. At the core of the country classified into two major climatic region – East and West. The boundary between them coincides with 500 mm and should be roughly along the meridian 100 ° W
Eastern region as a whole is characterized by humid climate with an average [...]