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Thousands Of Years Years Ago
891 wordsBeginning about 12, 000 years ago, the human population began a trend that completely changed the way we, as a race, evolved. For the first time in history, humans pushed beyond the restraints of traditional hunting and gathering, into domestication and farming. It was a change that would not only take thousands of years to prove worthy, but also may have set us back on the evolutionary path at the time. Along the path to this point, we have been constantly changing and finding new ways to produ...
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Fossil Fuels Noise Pollution
1,257 words... gy exists for point sources of pollution to be monitored and regulated, although political factors may complicate matters. Nonpoint sources-runoff water containing pesticides and fertilizers from acres of agricultural land, for example-are much more difficult to control. Pollution arising from nonpoint sources accounts for a majority of the contaminants in streams and lakes. With almost 80 percent of the planet covered by oceans, people have long acted as if those bodies of water could serve...
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Ground Water Acid Rain
1,021 wordsMany people assume that water is an unlimited natural resource. Is this true? Although water appears abundant, recent circumstances indicate that it is seriously vulnerable to pollution and depletion. Throughout this essay we will examine what ground water is, how it is important in the water cycle, how its contamination can affect us, and what we can do to protect our ground water from contamination. Ground water is the water found in spaces between soil particles and rocks, within cracks of th...
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Iron Ore Great Lakes
504 wordsPenetrating 3, 540 kilometers (2, 200 miles) into interior North America, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Sea-way navigation system, completed in essentially its present form in 1959, was regarded as one of the great engineering accomplishments of the 20 th century and an outstanding example of international cooperation... It was intended to remove much of the disadvantage of the continental interior in importing and exporting overseas. It was also designed to meet the increasing needs for electric...
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Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere
1,382 wordsAlgonquin Park is the oldest and most famous provincial park in Ontario and one of the largest in Canada. It stretches across 7, 725 kilometers of wild and beautiful lakes and forests, bogs and rivers, cliffs and beaches. This is why Algonquin is also known as a canoeist's and camper's paradise as far as the eye can see. From August 27 th to September 5 th a group of university students mainly ranging between the ages of 22 to 25 will be experiencing the park first-hand. As far as the weather, t...
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Body Of Water Websters Dictionary
723 wordsWater Pollution People keep on throwing trash and industrial wastes into our clean water. If this continues, the quality of our water will deteriorate, and without it everything dies, including us. Water pollution is destroying our world, but fortunately we can count on special treatments for this kind of problem. What is water pollution? "It is the contamination of water by foreign matter such as organisms, chemicals, and industrial or other wastes" (Encarta 96). Water has six major pollutants....
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La Paz Santa Cruz
1,526 words... y guidelines As a rule, visitors fare best with US dollars, which are the only foreign currency accepted throughout Bolivia. Currencies of neighboring countries may be exchanged in border areas and at certain La Paz casas de cambio. All casas de cambio change cash dollars and some also change travelers' checks. You can often change money in travel agencies, jewelery or appliance stores and pharmacies. When exchanging money, ask for the cash in small denominations, as there are chronic proble...
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Snow Capped Mountains Love Of Nature Live
320 wordsIf I could choose where I would live, I would live by the mountains. All my life I have been taught to be appreciative of the woods and nature. My love to be in the mountains is partly because of my love of snow. This has given me the passion for the outdoors that I know today. When I was a young child, around age ten, my father introduced me to deer hunting. This became my root in my love of nature. The mountains have always given me a since of purity, from new fallen snow on the snow-capped mo...
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Large Amounts Great Lakes
407 wordsThis report is about the lifestyle of my own life, which would seem like an easy one but everyone today is so different so I had to dig a little deeper into the roots of the Midwest. The Midwestern states include Ohio, the Dakotas, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska. South of these states is the great Mississippi River and to the north is the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes were formed by the glacial ice cap that moved down over large parts of North America so...
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Soviet Union Cold War
1,294 wordsIn 1970 the Trudeau government issued a major statement defining its foreign policy. Three primary policy aims were presented: preservation of Canada as an independent political entity, maintenance of expanding prosperity, and constructive contribution to human needs. In 1970 - 72 Canada scaled back its contribution to NATO, reducing the number of its military and civilian personnel and military bases in Europe. Canada established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of in October 197...
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Oversize Ripple Marks Landscapes Were Formed Flood
1,147 wordsHuman beings existing, breathing, and walking around on a measureless, changing and growing quickly as times goes by. Similar to the human growth, landforms kept on changing rapidly over years after years. For many centuries, geologists believed landscapes were formed through a long process known as uniformitarian- a gradually slow process of changing its landscapes toward its environments. Evidence of multiple catastrophism- a speed process of landform has been developed over the years, especia...
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Hudson Bay Largest Country
481 wordsCanada is the world's second largest country, and it is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere. It comprises of the entire North American continent north of the United States, with the exclusion of Alaska, Greenland, and the tiny French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Its most easterly point is Cape Spear, Newfoundland and its western limit is Mount St. Elias in the Yukon Territory, near the Alaskan border. The southernmost point is Middle Island, in Lake Erie and the northern tip is ...
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Fur Trade Great Lakes
489 wordsThe Algonquin was a northern tribe that settled in Canada some time around the 1400 s, and now have settled in Quebec and nearby Ontario. The Algonquians history was not exactly a pleasant one they suffered many hardships and obstacles to over come. Samuel de Champlain established the first permanent French settlement on the St. Lawrence at Tadoussac in 1603. Champlain was so impressed with the Algonquin's furs that he explored the St. Lawrence as far west as the Lachine Rapids. Champlain left f...
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Bait Casting Reel Three Main Groups Bass
1,173 wordsThe fog drifts lazily above the murky swamp water as I slowly ease my boat toward an ancient, moss covered cypress tree. A bullfrog croaks its early morning greeting and somewhere off in the distance an unknown creature screeches as the hair on the back of my neck stands on end. The old tree was the site of a recent battle between a monstrous black bass and me. A battle in which the big bass taught me a valuable lesson in humility. I have a lot more respect for her and her kind. She never gave u...
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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide
966 wordsJustin Greenwood May 15, 2001 Thinking Like a Mountain Environmental Issues Project The Destruction of Our Fragile Planet and the Possibility of Reform It is widely accepted that humans have been a major cause of environmental problems since we began creating our cities and especially since the Industrial Revolution of the 20 th century. All aspects of the Earth have been affected by humans desire to conquer and dominate the planet. Our impact has gone beyond pollution to altering the functionin...
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Ocean Floor Feet Long
597 wordsClassification of Dogfish sharks Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum Chordata SubPhylum Vertebrata (vertebrates) Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Subclass Elasmobranch ii (sharks and rays) Order Squaliformes (dogfish sharks) Family Squalidae Genus Squalus Species acanthus Introduction Sharks are fish that have been around longer then dinosaurs have existed. They live in waters all over the world, in every ocean, and even in some rivers and lakes. Sharks, unlike other fish, have no bones; ...
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Snow Capped Mountains Love Of Nature Living
323 wordsLiving by the Mountains If I could choose where I would live, I would live by the mountains. All my life I have been taught to be appreciative of the woods and nature. My love to be in the mountains is partly because of my love of snow. This has given me the passion for the outdoors that I know today. When I was a young child, around age ten, my father introduced me to deer hunting. This became my root in my love of nature. The mountains have always given me a since of purity, from new fallen sn...
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O F Lake Erie
1,607 wordsThe Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (O. F. A. H. ) is Ontario s largest charitable non-profit organization that is not funded by the government. The O. F. A. H. plays a very important role in the province s fish and wildlife conservation. The organization believes that it is important to preserve Ontario s fish and wildlife resources. The O. F. A. H. is key in educating a vast population of Ontarians as young as six years old, in the import...
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Noise Pollution Air Pollution
740 wordsAs time Pollution 4 Pollution As time advances pollution is every where, humans more and more rely on machines to live their lives. Machines like cars and trucks, airplanes, computer; all of which produce some kind of pollution. Maybe air, water, and even noise pollution are cause by these machines. Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans have resulted in pollution. Much of the worlds air, water, and land are now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhab...
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Lake Is Home Lake Pontchartrain Pollution
504 wordsLake Pontchartrain From my research on the Lake Pontchartrain i have found out that the lake is not just a Lake God put on this earth but a lake that Louisiana needs. 1 Past The lakes early settlements were over 300 years ago. 2 They settled on the north shore due to the fact that it was best place to settle. 4 If by the way you are wondering the first settlers were of European descent. 5 Pollution The Lake pollution were very serious. 6 In some areas you could not swim. Now people have spotted ...
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