Introductory GeographyWerner School Book Company, 1900 - 187 pàgines |
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Pàgina 71 - The sugar-maple tree grows in the northern part of the United States and in the southern part of Canada.
Pàgina 12 - A main river with its tributaries is called a river system. The land drained by a river system is called the basin of the main river of the system.
Pàgina 95 - Gold was discovered in California in 1848. How many years ago was that...
Pàgina 14 - A body of water extending into the land from a larger body of water is called a gulf, bay, or sea.
Pàgina 123 - There are many inlets of the sea and ocean extending into the land, so that no part of the country is more than forty miles from salt water.
Pàgina 24 - The greatest latitude which a place can have is 90 degrees — that is, the extreme distance of either pole from the line of the equator. All places situated between the equator and the north pole are said to be in North Latitude : all places that lie between the equator and the south pole are in South Latitude.
Pàgina 28 - ... When by cooling it changes again into a visible form, or when it changes from mist or cloud into drops of water, it is said to condense. If a cold plate or knife is placed in the steam escaping from the teakettle, its surface becomes covered with drops of water. This water is the steam condensed. If a pitcher of ice water is allowed to stand in a warm room, it soon becomes moist upon the outside, and drops of w r ater will finally trickle down its sides.
Pàgina 4 - How many minutes in an hour ? How many hours in a day ? How many days in a week ? How many weeks in a month ? How many months in a year?
Pàgina 101 - ... of four, encircle it. It is a common notion that the land in Polar regions is never free from snow. But, however low the mean yearly temperature may be, as soon as the summer heat rises above freezing-point the carpet of snow disappears. In April the rocks lose their covering, in May the flats are bare, and in June extensive meadows yield forage for herds of reindeer and musk oxen. Flowers are so numerous that in some spots the ground is yellow with poppies, ranunculus, and dandelions, bright...