National Parks
adjacent to Kings Canyon National Park in California's southern Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for its huge sequoia trees, notably the General Sherman Tree dominating the Giant Forest. The underground Crystal Cave features streams and striking rock formations. Moro Rock is a granite dome offering sweeping park views. Nearby is the Tunnel Tree, a toppled tree cut to accommodate the road.
What is Sequoia National Park?
the permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forest. This can include clearing the land for agriculture or grazing, or using the timber for fuel, construction or manufacturing.
What is deforestation?
a rugged stretch of California’s central coast between Carmel and San Simeon. Bordered to the east by the Santa Lucia Mountains and the west by the Pacific Ocean, it’s traversed by narrow, 2-lane State Route 1, known for winding turns, seaside cliffs and views of the often-misty coastline. The sparsely populated region has numerous state parks for hiking, camping and beachcombing.
what is big sur?
the ability to exist constantly to be maintained at a certain rate or level. In the 21st century, it refers generally to the capacity for the biosphere and human civilization to coexist.
What is Sustainability?
The process of creating new forests where there were none.
what is Aforestation?
in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains lies this park. It’s famed for its giant, ancient sequoia trees, and for Tunnel View, the iconic vista of towering Bridalveil Fall and the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome. In the Village are shops, restaurants, lodging, the a Museum and the Ansel Adams Gallery, with prints of the photographer’s renowned black-and-white landscapes of the area.
What is Yosemite National Park?
the longest living organisms on the planet and one of the earth's greatest natural resources. They keep our air supply clean, reduce noise pollution, improve water quality, help prevent erosion, provide food and building materials, create shade, and help make our landscapes look beautiful.
what is a tree?
a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. It’s known for its beaches and ski resorts. On the southwest shore, Emerald Bay State Park contains the 1929 Nordic-style mansion Vikingsholm.
What is Lake Tahoe?
this country has the best recycling rate in the world followed by Austria, South Korea and Wales.
what is Germany?
the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system. It is a major aspect of climate change and has been demonstrated by direct temperature measurements and by measurements of various effects of the warming.
what is global warming/climate change?
this vast park is a protected area in southern California. It's characterized by rugged rock formations and stark desert landscapes. Named for the region’s twisted, bristled trees, the park straddles the cactus-dotted Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert, which is higher and cooler. Keys View looks out over the Coachella Valley. Hiking trails weave through the boulders of Hidden Valley.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
this forest provides more than 20% of the world oxygen.
a shallow, saline, endorheic rift man made lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in the U.S. state of California's Imperial and Coachella valleys.
What is the Salton Sea?
this material can take up to thousands of years to decompose leading to marine animal death and the contamination of soil and water.
What is Styrofoam?
the world’s top polluter emitting 10,357 metric tons of carbon dioxide, followed by the United States, India, Russia and Japan.
What is China?
this park/ collections of parks are a string of protected forests, beaches and grasslands along Northern California’s coast. The Park has trails through dense old-growth woods. Prairie Creek State Park is home to Fern Canyon, with its high, plant-covered walls. Roosevelt elk frequent nearby Elk Prairie. Giant redwood clusters include National Park’s Lady Bird Johnson Grove.
What is Redwood National Park?
is a 4,851-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. It is recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world.
what is the Methuselah tree?
the longest river of Central California in the United States. The 366-mile long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean.
What is the San Joaquin River?
Around 16,000 litres of water is consumed to make just 1 kg of
what is beef?
the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without this atmosphere. Radiatively active gases in a planet's atmosphere radiate energy in all directions.
This park straddles eastern California and Nevada. It’s known for Titus Canyon, with a ghost town and colorful rocks, and Badwater Basin’s salt flats, North America's lowest point. Above, Telescope Peak Trail weaves past pine trees. North of the spiky salt mounds known as the Devil’s Golf Course, rattlesnakes live in Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes.
What is Death Valley National Park?
the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
what is photosynthesis?
the principal river of Northern California in the United States, and is the largest river in California. Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for 400 miles before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay.
What is the Sacramento River?
this group of individuals make up about 5% of the world’s population, yet annually produce 27% of the world’s garbage.
what is an American?
a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis. Such organisms and their resulting fuels typically have an age of millions of years, and sometimes more than 650 million years.
what are fossil fuels?