the amur river*

NAME: Amur

LOCATION: China (Heilongjiang) and Russia (Oblast to Amur, Oblast Autonomic Hebrew and Krai to Khabarovsk).

LENGHT: 2,874 km

SOURCE: Khentii mountains.

MOUTH:Ojtosk sea (Pacific ocean)

FLOW FACTS: the Amur river, border ago between China and Russia. It´s the ninth longer river in the world. It has a basin 1,885,000 km2.

the climates of world

EQUATORIAL CLIMATE:

High temperatures and weighed precipitations all the year. Cover of cloud and very high moisture. This climate find to the proximaciones of the equator.

TRAPICAL DRY-WET.

This season is humid in summer and dry in winter. Warm temperatures.

MONSOON:

This climate has two estacións : Heavy season of rain and short dry season.

DESERT:

Is the driest zone of the Earth. Temperatures very high in the day and the nights are very cold. Few rains.

HUMID SUBTROPICAL:

High humidity especially in the summer.With masses of polar air in the winter.

MEDITERRANEAN:

Moist winters but dry summers. Sunny climate.

HUMID CONTINENTAL:

There are two summers: the Warm summers are hot and humid with cold waves sometimes. Fresh summer with long winters and moderate summers.

MARINE WEST COAST:

Winters and soft summers. Low temperatures.

SUBARTIC:

Fresh summers and hard winters.

TUNDRA:

Nine months freezing. Very low evaporation.

Questions for Lewis and Clark´s Journey.

1. Who had the idea of this adventure? Why?
The president Thomas Jefferson, because he wanted more power and more richness for the United States.

2.How did Mandan Indians behave with the expedition?
The Mandan Indian were very good with the explorers. They were kind and welcoming, too.

3.Who helped the expedition to continue when the maps failed?
An Indian guide.

4.When did they finish the journey and come back home?
The expedition ended on 7th November 1805. The next spring, they came back home and they arrived in St. Louise on 23rd September 1806.

5.Did they find an easy route, followed afterwards by other people? Why?
Yes, they did. Many people, follow the Lewis and Clark´s route in search of new lands and trade

The hurricane Mitch (Central America 1998)

*The hurricane Mitch was one of the ciclones tropical more powerful and mortal that have seen in the modern era, having a maximum speed of winds sustained of 290 km/h. Mitch Went through Central America of the 22 of October to the 5 of November in the season of hurricanes in the Atlantic of 1998. Also caused miles of million dollars in material losses

Mitch Formed in the west of Mar Carribean the 22 of October,2 and after going through conditions extremely favourable, achieved quickly the category 5, the highest level possible in the scale of hurricanes of Saffir-Simpson.After displacing to the southwest to the same time that weakened , the hurricane striked Honduras like a hurricane of minor category. It moved through Centroamérica until achieving the Bay of Campeche for finally strike Florida like a tropical storm.

Because of his slow movement between the 29 of October and the 3 of November, Mitch left historical quantities of precipitations in Honduras and Nicaragua, with reports no official of until 1900 mm.The deaths ocasionadas by the catastróficas floods did it the second hurricane more mortífero of the Atlantic,2 near of 11.000 people died and around 8.000 remained disappeared to ends of 1998.

Weather Forecast for Europe.

*Most of Europe is having a low pressure area, particularly along the Atlantic coast. A storm coming from the North Pole that brings cold fronts and rain, it is affecting the Iberian peninsula and the British Islands. That storm is also carrying a warm front to Scandinavia and Central Europe.

UMIA RIVER

NAME: Umia River.

LOCATION: Galicia (Aciveiro, A Estrada, Cuntis, Moraña, Caldas de Reis, Portas, Meis, Ribadumia and Cambados.
LENGHT:70 km
SOURCE: Aciveiro (Forcarei)
MOUTH:Cambados.
FLOW FACTS:In Caldas de Reis it produces a cascade.

climograph 3

The climograph is for the Humid Subtropical Climate.

in this climate rains a lot during in the year. The winters are very cold and In the summers rain too.

climograph 2

The climograph is for the Mediterranean Climate.The summers are dry with high temperatures and the winters are wet and there are warm temperatures.

climograph 1

The climograph is desert.

The desert have got temeprature very high and too there isn´t any rains