has water pollution from runoff of pesticides and fertilizers. Much of the western part of the country has limited natural fresh water resources, which requires careful management. There is acid rain resulting from the air pollution of both the U.S. United States Environmental Issues: The United States is the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. In northern Alaska there is permafrost, which is a major impediment to development. Varied other occurrences include volcanoes, and earthquake activity around the Pacific Basin, tsunamis, and forest fires in the western portion of the country. There are hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, flooding, mud slides in California, and frequent tornadoes in the midwest and southeast. United States Natural Hazards: The United States has numerous natural hazards. Other natural resources include potash, timber and phosphates. There are a number of metal and metallic resources present, including copper, lead, molybdenum, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, silver, tungsten and zinc. United States Natural Resources: The United States has some fossil fuel deposits of coal, petroleum and natural gas. United States Locations: Appalachian Mountains, Atlantic Ocean, Casacade Mountain Range, Chesapeake Bay, Grat Salt Lake, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Lower Red Lake, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Pacific Ocean, Rio Grande, Rocky Mountains, Salton Sea, Straits of Florida and Upper Red Lake. Paul, Tacoma, Tallahassee, Topeka, Trenton, and Washington D.C. United States Cities: Albany, Anchorage, Annapolis, Atlanta, Augusta, Austin, Baton Rouge, Bismarck, Boise, Boston, Carson City, Charleston, Cheyenne, Chicago, Columbia, Columbus, Concord, Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, Dover, Frankfort, Harrisburg, Hartford, Helena, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jackson, Jefferson City, Lansing, Lincoln, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Madison, Miami, Montgomery, Montpelier, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma City, Olympia, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pierre, Providence, Raleigh, Richmond, Sacramento, Salem, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Springfield, St. Major lakes are also shown on the map, including the Great Lakes in the northeast, the Great Salt Lake of Utah, and Lake Okeechobee in Florida. You can see numerous rivers running across the country to the Mississippi River Basin, which drains everything from the Rockies in the west to the Appalachians in the east. In the eastern U.S., the Appalachian Mountains trend from New England down to Alabama. Higher elevations are shown in brown and tan, like the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast Ranges of the western United States. Mark Taylor is a weekend morning anchor and reporter with CBS4 news covering a wide variety of stories.Physical Map of the United States:This map shows the terrrain of the USA in shaded relief. Toll Memorial Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park Forest Canyon Overlook, Rocky Mountain National Park
Deer Mountain Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park Lily Lake Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park Google, which has a large location in Boulder, told CBS4 they felt they were a part of the Colorado community and it made sense to partner with Visit Denver and Estes Park to put those locations on the map for free.
CBS4's Mark Taylor interviews Justin Bresler with Visit Denver (credit: CBS) "Red Rocks was the hardest one, because you had to go up, and then down," Bresler said. "They like you to walk at an even pace."īresler was one of several employees with Visit Denver and other venues across the state that Google loaned out the backpack for free. "It was a pretty elaborate set up, but we got pretty good at it," Justin Bresler with Visit Denver said. The process uses a 60-pound backpack and camera that a person wears in order to map out a location. It's all thanks to Google Maps that now features 32 virtual views of Colorado destinations that started Tuesday.įor the last few years Google has used its Google Trekker program to start mapping off-street locations on for Google Maps. DENVER (CBS4) - People can now hike in Rocky Mountain National Park, see the Garden of the Gods, and see the Denver Botanic Gardens, with just the click of a button.
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