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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Geography Project: Linkin Park - Post 4

Post 4:


The 'Live 8' Concert was held outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pensilvania, USA, On 2nd July 2005.

Philadelphia City has a population of 1.526 million people, while the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan area has a population of 6.1 million people, making it the 5th Largest Metropolitan Area in the Country. Philadelphia is 130km southwest of New York City.

Philadelphia has a humid subtropical climate. In this climate, Summers are usually very hot, Autumn and Spring usually have quite mild weather, and Winters are very cold also. Philadelphia usually get snow during their winters, sometimes very light, and then at other times very heavy. Major Snowstorms have hit Philadelphia during the winters in the past. Philadelphia had the snowiest winter in the 2009 - 2010 winter season. Snow had fallen to a massive 78.7 inches from the ground. Philadelphia has had both very high and very low temperatures, with the highest at 41 degrees celcius and the lowest temperature recorded at minus 24 degrees celcius.

There are many rivers, creeks and streams that run through Philadelphia. These are the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, Cobbs Creek, Wissahickon Creek and Pennypack Creek.

The Delaware river is 484km long. It runs from the west branch of Schoharie County to Delaware Bay.

The Schuylkill River is 217km long. It runs from East Branch Schuylkill County into the Delaware River.

Cobbs Creek is 19km long. Its a tributary of Darby Creek in Delaware County.

Wissahickon Creek is a 37km long stream. It runs from Mountgomery County, Pensilvania and then empties into the Schuykill River in Philadelphia.

Pennypack Creek is a 36.4km creek which runs through Montgomery County, lower Bucks County and the northeast section of Philadelphia before finally emptying into the Delaware River.

Since the Live 8 Concert, Linkin Park Released a third album in 2007, 'Minutes to Midnight'. In this album, there is evidence that their music style began to change slightely. They had 5 singles from Minutes to Midnight.

In 2009, the band had released a song that was to be on the soundtrack of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. The Song, New Divide, was a huge hit.

On January 19th 2010, a new song, Not Alone, was released in Support of the Haiti Earthquake Crisis.

The Earthquake happened in Haiti on the 12th January 2010

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