THE PALOUSE
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THE PALOUSEWe’ve seen this region over and over again throughout this course. I’m
sure there are other places that can accomplish the same ends, but to me it is the Palouse biome of southeastern Washington and western Idaho that
best exemplifies and is explained by almost every aspect of the social science that is geography. This is the only comprehensive section of the Final Exam and is meant to assess how well you’ve come to understand the interplay of elements in the social science of geography that makes a
place like the Palouse so fascinating to a geographer.
What you’ll be asked to do is to is describe the processes and factors that the slides below illustrate. Go back in your notes and review the context of each of these slides and how they illustrated a geographical phenomenon or process that made the Palouse what it is. Hint: the geomorphology of
Washington created the conditions necessary to create the erosive process and weather patterns that makes the Palouse the best place in
the world for a certain type of agriculture, which in turn impacts the human geography of the region.
Mt. St. Helens
Mt. Hood
Three Sisters
Mt. Shasta Crater Lake
D. Hardin
CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARYContinent vs. Oceanic crust
Cascade Range
Olympic Range Mt. RainierViews from Seattle
IMPORTANT TOREMEMBER!
Palouse biomeGEOMORPHOLOGY
WINDLoess
Palouse
D. Hardin
winds
IMPORTANT TOREMEMBER!
Palouse biome
EROSION
D. Hardin
Uplift & PrecipitationOrographic uplift
WEATHERFarmville, VA
44” rain27.4% days clear/43.8% cloudy
Forks119” rain
14% days clear/65.5% cloudy58.1% days with some rain
Seattle37” rain
15.9% days clear/61.9% cloudyYakima8” rain
29.9% days clear/44.9% cloudy
Pullman21” rain
Spokane17” rain
23.6% days clear/52.3% cloudy
IMPORTANT TOREMEMBER!
Palouse Biome
Uplift & PrecipitationOrographic uplift
D. Hardin
WEATHER
Palouse Biome
IMPORTANT TOREMEMBER!
BIOMES
D. Hardin
IMPORTANT TOREMEMBER!
GRAIN FARMINGGRAIN FARMINGPalouseAGRICULTURE
GRAIN FARMINGGRAIN FARMINGPalouse
Population densityIMPORTANT TO
REMEMBER!POPULATION
Loessdeposits
Fewer than 5
Palouse Biome
D. Hardin
GRAIN FARMINGGRAIN FARMINGPalouse
Population decline
IMPORTANT TOREMEMBER!
POPULATION
Loessdeposits Palouse Biom
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