8: Appalachia

Appalachia is a cultural region in the eastern United States. The Appalachia highly consists of mountains. There are the Blue Mountain ranges, containing the Great Smoky Mountains. Ridge and Valley province, including the Great Valley. Appalachian Plateau, include Allagheny, Cumburland, and Interior Plateau which consist of Nashville and Lexington basins.

Protected areas:

Great Smoky Mountains is nation’s most visited National Park and the Southeast’s only national park. Park boundaries protect and preserve the Smokie’s scenery ecology even though they can’t stop pollutants.
Similar to the protection that the Great Smoky Mountains have Hawaii is also a place that tries its best to protect their areas. Several areas in Hawaii are under the protection of the National Park service. Hawaii has two national parks: Haleakala National Park near Kula, on Maui, includes Haleakala, the dormant volcano that formed east Maui; and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in the Southern region of the island of Hawaii, which includes the active volcano Kilauea and its various rift zones. Other areas under the control of the National Park Service include Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail on the Big Island and the USSArizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor on O’ahu

                

Volcanoes National Park

PLATEAU: Just like the Appalachia, Hawaii contains a plateau itself. Wahiawa is a cencus-designated place (CDP) in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, on the island Oahu. It is located in the Wahiawa District, on the plateau or "central valley" between the two volcanic mountains that comprise the island. Lakes and reservoirs are rare in Hawaii, and Wahiawa is at once unique in being surrounded on three sides by Lake Wilson

CLIMATE: The temperate continental Appalachian climate receives third- highest precipitation, behind the Pacific Northwest and Gulf Coast. About one quarter of total precipitation falls in the form of snow. The Blue Ridge Mountain bordering the Piedmont receives about 80 inches of rain annually. Hawaii’s climate is typical for the tropics, although temperatures and humidity tend to be a bit less extreme due to near-constant trade winds from the east.Summer highs are usually in the upper 80s °F, (around 31 °C) during the day and mid 70s, (around 24 °C) at night. Winter day temperatures are usually in the low to mid 80s, (around 28 °C) and (at low elevation) seldom dipping below the mid 60s (18 °C) at night. Snow, not usually associated with the tropics, falls at 4,205 meters (13,796 ft) on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island in some winter months. Snow rarely falls on Haleakala. Mount Wai’ale’ale, on Kauaʻi, has the second highest average annual rainfall on Earth, about 460 inches (11,684.0 mm). Most of Hawaii has only two seasons: the dry season from May to October, and the wet season from October to April.It snows but only at the very summits of the 3 tallest volcanoes (Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Haleakala). The snow level almost never gets below 9000 feet in Hawaii during the winter, but since these mountains are taller than 13,000 feet, 13,000 feet, and 10,000 feet, respectively, they get dusted with snow a few times a year. It rarely stays on the ground for more than a few days though. 

Source: A regional geography of the United States and Canada 

Hawaii National Park. (June 1959). "Hawaii Nature Notes."The Publication of the Naturalist Division, Hawaii National Park, and the Hawaii Natural History Association.