Anatolia's diverse topography and climate has fostered a similar diversity of plant and animal communities.

External factors such as climate, the parent material which forms the soil and topography, control the overall structure an ecosystem and the way things work within it, but are not themselves influenced by the ecosystem.

Southern California was also chosen because of its beautiful year-round weather and varied countryside ; its topography, semi-arid climate and widespread irrigation gave its landscapes the ability to offer motion picture shooting scenes set in deserts, jungles and great mountains.

The province, with an area of, has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography.

Macedonia has unique climate explained by its location and topography.

Because of their rugged topography and the rigours of the climate, the northern highlands and the Himalayas to the east have been formidable barriers to movement into Pakistan throughout history.

Tanzania has a tropical climate with regional variations due to topography.

These geographical regions were separated according to their climate, location, flora and fauna, human habitat, agricultural diversities, transportation, topography and so on.

Although the country lies wholly within the tropics, its climate varies from tropical humid to alpine, depending on the elevation, topography, and the direction and intensity of prevailing winds.

They are: parent material, climate, topography ( relief ), organisms, and time.

The type and amount of vegetation depends on climate, land form topography, soil characteristics, and biological factors.

Whether these are slow or rapid changes depends on climate, topography and biological activity.

In the basins and valleys adjoining the coast, climate is subject to wide variations within short distances as a result of the influence of topography on the circulation of marine air.

The specific design used it dependent upon topography, geology, climate, the type of tailings and cost.

Besides direct effect of asteroid impacts on a planet's surface topography, global climate and life, recent studies have shown that several consecutive impacts can have effect on the dynamo mechanism at a planet's core responsible for maintaining the magnetic field of the planet, and can eventually shut down the planet's magnetic field.

Although most of the country is classified as semi-arid, it has considerable variation in climate as well as topography.

Each has its own characteristic vegetation, fauna, climate, and, despite the omnipresence of both the Andes and the Pacific, its own distinct topography.

Differences in topography and climate separate the lowlands into three areas.

Agricultural production in Bolivia is complicated by both the country ’ s topography and climate.

Topography can modify the local climate, for example through orographic precipitation, which in turn modifies the topography by changing the hydrologic regime in which it evolves.

Various environmental elements collectively create a recipe for natural disasters: the mountainous and geologically unstable terrain ; seasonal rainstorms that result in dense vegetation growth ; seasonal dry Santa Ana winds ; and a naturally dry topography and climate.

Bog habitats may develop in various situations, depending on the climate and topography ( see also hydrosere succession ).

Those geographical variables generally refer to: geographic location of the country or countries in question, size of the countries involved, climate of the region the countries are in, topography of the region, demography, natural resources and technological development.

He continued to ski when he could, though the climate and flat topography of the Dakota prairie offered few opportunities for downhill skiing.

The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.

But it also briefly suggested the possibility of a meeting with Mr. Khrushchev before the end of the year if the international climate were favorable and schedules permitted.

There were intense discussions in the inner councils of the White House about the advisability of an early meeting, not because the international climate was improving, but precisely because it was deteriorating alarmingly.

This time, they were much better prepared and organized, and the political climate was favorable.

More traditional adobe roofs were often flatter than the familiar steeped roof as the native climate yielded more sun and heat than mass amounts of snow or rain that would find use in precipitous roofs.

With limited supplies, the cultivation of food was imperative, but the soils around Sydney were poor, the climate was unfamiliar, and moreover very few of the convicts had any knowledge of agriculture.

The mixed results were a combination of reliability problems ( exacerbated by the tropical climate ), limited pilot training in fighter-to-fighter combat, and restrictive rules of engagement that generally prohibited BVR ( beyond visual range ) engagements.

His message can be described as confrontational and controversial, which can be related to the political climate of most of the African countries in the 1960s, many of which were dealing with political injustice and military corruption while recovering from the transition from colonial governments to self-determination.

These deposits ultimately hold not only untapped reserves of gas and oil, they also house important secrets — from clues on past climate change to the ways in which mountains were formed.

Buses were fitted with technology appropriate to the local climate or passenger needs, such as air conditioning in Asia, or cycle mounts on North American buses.

They stated that the pre-and post-Madrid versions of Chapter 8 were equally cautious in their statements ; that roughly 20 % of Chapter 8 is devoted to the discussion of uncertainties in estimates of natural climate variability and the expected signal due to human activities ; and that both versions of the chapter reached the same conclusion: " Taken together, these results point towards a human influence on climate.

Tropical rainforests fragmented and then were eventually devastated by climate change.

With the climate of change throughout Eastern Europe during the 1980s, the communist hegemony was challenged ( at the same time, the Milošević government began to gradually concentrate Yugoslav power in Serbia and calls for free multi-party elections were becoming louder.

For example, by inoculating in the months of milder climate, one had a better chance of fighting the infection and becoming immune instead of the alternative: natural exposure to the disease during harsher weather, when the body's defenses were already challenged.

Besides the climate, other factors such as the high occurrence of parasites, diseases and the very low nutritional value of the native forage were problems.

A study of 1540 US adults found instead that levels of scientific literacy were correlated with the strength of opinion on climate change, but not on which side of the debate that they stood.

Such omissions were held against him during the liberal climate of the 1960s and 1970s.

The hardest phase was the crossing of the Andes cordillera: at almost 4, 000 meters of altitude, the cold, hunger and tiredness meant the death of various Spaniards and natives, but mainly slaves who were not accustomed to such rigorous climate.

Reflecting the intellectual climate of the time, there were differences among deists about freedom and determinism.

Analysis of Sporormiella fungal spores ( which derive mainly from the dung of megaherbivores ) in the cores shows that the megafauna of that region virtually disappeared about 41, 000 years ago, at a time when climate changes were minimal ; the change was accompanied by an increase in charcoal, and was followed by a transition from rainforest to fire-tolerant sclerophyll vegetation.

Echols and Baldwin were close friends, and bonded over their similar tastes in music and fiction, and over their shared distaste for the prevailing cultural climate of West Memphis, situated in the Bible Belt.

As DNA had survived in the fossil fragment due to the cool climate of the Denisova Cave, both mtDNA and nuclear genomic DNA were sequenced.

Before this climate change, the Nordic countries were considerably warmer.

His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union .</ p >