As city dwellers, were often busy working and/or going to school. Many of us leave our homes and get in our cars, or bikes, or skateboards, and get on the road. At this speed, (especially if we drive) we miss or ignore many environmental conditions that make our landscape. You are assigned to explore your local environment, the Central Valley of California, and compare that to a foreign environment. Throughout the semester we are covering different topics of the environmental conditions of Earth (ex. insolation, wind, humidity, hydrologic cycle, clouds/storms, plant and animal life) As we cover each of these topics, you should be examining your local and foreign environment and documenting your findings.  You will then research another region in another country that you would like to explore. Compare and contrast the environments of California’s Central Valley and your chosen foreign environment. What are the weather conditions or climatic patterns of each landscape? What wind patterns dominate the areas? What temperature ranges do you experience? How do you experience moisture such as storms, clouds, or fog? Use weatherspark.com (Links to an external site.) website to find weather patterns of different environments (only use this website for reference, you must connect this information to topics learned in the textbook/lectures, or with real examples that you either experience, or information from your sources.

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