Exploring Kamloops: Landforms, Climate, Vegetation, and Environmental Issues
Discover the diverse landscape of Kamloops with its mountains, lakes, and unique vegetation. Learn about the hot summers and cold winters, ideal for activities like golfing and snowshoeing. However, forest fires pose a significant environmental issue, impacting animals, humans, and habitats. Explore current solutions like aerial firefighting and fire bans to address this pressing concern.
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KAMLOOPS Grade 9 S.S By: Alexandra
Physical landforms Mountians Harper Mountian Plates move and push up to form mountians Economic activites Mountian biking skiing and snowborading Lakes Kamaloops lake Lakes form from the moving of the earths crust Economic activties Fishing paddling
Climate Hot summer Very dry and hot Record temp is 47.7 degrees celseus Super sun over 2,000 hours of sun Economic activities Golfing hiking Cold winter Dry, snowy and cold, windy and sunny Record temp is -38 degrees celseus Snowfall in valley is 6 , -5 to -15 degrees celseus Snowfall in mountians is heavy 4-8 feet, -15 to -30 degrees celseus Economic activities Snowshoeing cross country skiing
Vegitation Wild flowers In spring In high elevatoin areas List of wild flowers Yellow glacier lilies Shooting stars Yellow bells Upland larks And many more Economic activites Flower festival Forests There is 14 reigons of forests and trees Alpine Tundra Boreal White and Black Spruce Sub-boreal Pine-Spruce Mountain Hemlock And many more Economic activities hiking Mountian biking
PART 2 Environment issue
Issue The physiographic region The cordillera Forest fires Happens in summer because of the extreme heat and lack of moisture in kamaloops
Kills Animals Humans Forests Habitats increase carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, causing greenhouse effect and climate change ashes destroy lots of the nutrients and erode the soil, causing flooding and landslides Consequences of issue
Solutions Curent solutions Forest fire fighters Use firefighting tools such as hoses, axes, and handheld radios Operate and maintain skidders and bulldozers Participate in water bombing operations Dig trenches, cut trees, and pump water onto burning areas Ariel firefighting Fire bans
Imagine the world 50 years from now With the increase of tempature each year because global warming, forest fires will increase with the current solutions we are using. But if we start fighting fire with fire by using methods like prescribed burning, we can make paches in forests to stop the flow of fire that attacks our forests. Because of how close the trees in forests are, its easyer for forest fires to burn. But intentionally burning small areas with a controlled flame to create small spaces between areas can stop the flow of fires, and can reduce dead fuels that harm us. So with prescried burning we can limit the crazy big fires that break out. So in 50 years fire will happen its natrual for fires to come up once in a while but crazy mega fires will stop in 50 years if we use the prescribed burning method.
