GeoJournal Finale
Week 1
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Personal examples of Climate Change
W13 - Climate Change I am originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. When I came into the world, snow is all I knew about. Utah is arid similar to a desert and the conditions are always unexpected. They say "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes!" It could be the winter season, but it also could be freezing rain. It wasn't until after getting married and moving to the east coast I was able to experience humidity and all that it entailed. The winter is most definitely a different level of cold being lower than 10 degrees Fahrenheit. My husband was born and raised overseas in Tonga (South Pacific islands) where the weather is in a tropical setting and the seasons were the same depending on how warm and cool it becomes. It also depended on the hurricane season. I experienced a trip to Tonga during the month of December and it is most probably hottest time of the season because it was winter for us but their 'summer'. Now isn't this sight better than pi...
Anatomy of Mid-Ocean Ridges
W12 - Mid-Ocean Ridges I had issues pulling up the elevation table to measure this Mid-Ocean Ridge near the Atlantic Ocean. This mid-ocean ridge, in particular, is located near Africa off the coast of Sierra Leone and Liberia. I used a regular ruler and I measured in kilometers along the ridge and it ranged from 25.79 kilometers to 35.75 kilometers (larger opening towards the left).