Water Resources

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 450.

Climate

7. Being crossed by the mountain ranges from North to South, the country is unprotected from blasts of cold air from the North and warm air from the South. This is the cause of great fluctuations of temperature.

8. The “Dust Bowl” is restricted to a 97-million acre place of high level land in the Southern portion of the Great Plains. It includes parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. This part of the Great Plains is vulnerable to the storms that sweep down from the Rocky Mountains to the East.

9. In 1888, snow was falling for 36 hours in New York, killing 400 people in that blizzard.

10. Hurricane Andrew, which in 1993 ripped through Florida in a huge swath, just missing the center of Miami. It caused damage to hundreds of millions of dollars of property and killed several people.

11. The Mississippi River, which flows south into the Gulf of Mexico for 6,400 km. It is the third largest river in the world after the Nile and the Amazon.

12. “The Father of Waters” and the Old Man River” are the nicknames of the Mississippi, and the Missouri is called “the Big Muddy”.

13.The Missouri and the Ohio Rivers.

14. The Chicago River. When Chicago began to expand and more drinking water was needed for the inhabitants, engineers deliberately altered the whole structure of the river, so that fresh water would then flow from Lake Michigan into the river. Nowadays, instead of flowing north, the Chicago River flows south towards the Gulf of Mexico.

15. They are the Colorado and the Rio Grande Rivers.

16.It is situated on the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland.

17. It stands on the Hudson River, the Harlem and the East River.

18. In the Sacramento River.

19. The Mississippi River is the traditional dividing line between the East and the West of the US.

20.The Rocky Mountains are known as the Continental Divide for the reason that all the waters east of the Rockies finally reach the Atlantic and all the rivers to the west of the Rockies finally arrive at the Pacific.

21. It is in five large lakes in the north-east and Central USA, which are known as the Great Lakes.

22. They are Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Ontario.

23. Lake Michigan.

24. Lake Michigan (57,757 km²)

25. The Yosemite Falls – total in three sections is 2,425 feet.

26. The Niagara, Falls, great rapids, are situated on the short Niagara River, joining Lake Erie and Ontario.

27. “Niagara” is an Indian word that means “roaring waters”. Indeed, the roar of the falling water can be heard within a distance of 25 km.

28. Chesapeake Bay (3,237 miles²), Maryland