California

California is one of the United States most diverse areas to living environment, and because of its inhabitants. "California is home to more than 12 percent of all Americans" (pg294 textbook). This shows how California is a very populated area, especially in the souther portions of the state.

The Physical Environment

California has a variety of mountain ranges which are the Coast Ranges , and the Sierra Nevada. Californias central portion is one big valley called the Central Valley which lies between these two mountain ranges mentions earlier. In this Valley is where most of the agriculture is found throughout the state. Most of the state to the southern portion, and going east is a very dry desert like environment.

Climate
The north portion of the state is more moist and wet compared to the southern portion of the state. The state has what is called a Mediterranean climate which means they receive moderate precipitation during the winter months, and mild winters, and hot summer mentions in our textbook on (pg 298). The costal portions of the state are much cooler than the interior portion of the state.

Urban California
California is considered mostly a modern urban state . "More than 90 percent of California's residents live in one or another of the states 25 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)" (pag307). The Los Angeles Area is the biggest city in California, made up of many different cultures, and people from all over the world. Los Angeles was built for people to use automobile transportation, so most of the places are found far from each other throughout the city.  " Today fully half of the central portion of Los Angeles has been surrendered to the automobile, either for roads or parking" (pg309 textbook). This city is also composed of a very diverse population which sometimes is not so good especially in a really populated city , where a alot of these people belong to minority groups. "Greater Los Angeles may be the largest Mexican metropolitan area outside of Mexico; the second largest Chinese metropolitan area outside of China; the second largest Japanese metropolitan area outside Japan; and the largest Korean,Filipino, and Vietnamese areas outside those countries" (pg 312 textbook).