GEOGRAPHIC PATTERN OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIORNMENT

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El Capitan at Yosemite Nat. Park in the Spring. I wish I would've gone during spring to see this beautiful sight. My family and I were there during Labor Day weekend in 2006. Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Rainbow Falls in the Sierra Nevada

Mount Whitney, The highest Mountain Peak in California

The Sequoia's at Sequoia National Park. I have been there and those trees are soooooooo tall it is unbelieveable. My Husband, son and I took my parents there on Labor Day weekend in 2007.
CALIFORNIA HAS A VARIETY OF VEGETATION REGIONS. RANGING FROM COLD NEEDLE LEAF FOREST AND COASTAL FOREST, MAKING UP A GREAT PART OF HALF OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. CENTRAL VALLEY HAS SHORT-GRASS PRAIRIE AND FINALLY SCLEROPHYLLOUS VEGETATION WHICH IS MADE UP BY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA CROSS-SECTION SCHEMATIC IS TWO OF THE LARGER FEATURES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE REGION'S COMPLICATED LANDSCAPE. ONE IS THE SEDIMETARY CENTRAL VALLEY AND THE FAULT BLOCK STRUCTURE OF THE SIERRA NEVADAS. CLIMATE AND RAINFALL IS AFFECTED BY THE PROXIMITY TO LARGE BODIES OF WATER CALIFORNIA IS NOT BENEFITED FROM THAT, SINCE THERE IS NOT MUCH RAIN IN THE STATE.