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Des Moines Mississippi River
1,156 wordsIn the summer of 1993 the United States were faced with the most devastating flood that has ever occurred. Seventeen thousand square miles of land were covered by floodwaters in a region covering all or parts of nine states (North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois). All large Midwestern streams flooded including the Mississippi, Missouri, and Kansas, Illinois, Des Moines and Wisconsin rivers. The Mississippi river was above flood stage for 144 ...
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Gulf Of Mexico State And Local
1,042 wordsWhen asked where is the most polluted place in the united states many people even educated people answer would be Houston, Texas with Los Anglous, California a close second. Although Houston is the most polluted city and yes Los angles is a close second... There is a place the size of the state of New Jersey that is worse then the position problem in those two cities. This area is known as the "Dead Zone" it is located at the mouth of the Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico. The dead zone can not ...
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Effects Of Acid Acid Deposition
770 wordsAcid Rain is a type of air pollution, formed when oxides of sulfur and nitrogen combine with atmosphere moisture to yield sulfuric and nitric acids, which may then be carried long distances from a source before they are deposited by rain. This pollution may also be snow, fog, or a dry form of precipitation. Acid rain is currently a subject of great controversy because of widespread environmental damage for which it has been blamed, including eroding structures, injuring crops and forests, and th...
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Ocean Currents Pacific Ocean
348 wordsSticking with the theme of ocean currents, (from portfolio # 2), I will reflect on Jan Kay? s Dec. 4, 2000 article titled? Warming taking food from Pacific. ? This article was retrieved from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. According to this article, warmer waters and changing ocean currents within the Pacific Ocean maybe causing a decline in plankton. Ocean plankton are the food source for many larger ocean creatures. According to a 50 year study, conducted by California Cooperative Fisheries In...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fossil Fuels
710 wordsCarbon is the basis for all life on earth. This essay will explain the role of carbon dioxide in v arises parts of the carbon cycle. This essay will examine three main, and important parts of the carbon cycle, starting by explaining the role of the ocean in ob sorbing can. Next this essay will examine the human influences on the carbon cycle and human production of carbon dioxide. Thirdly this essay will explain what controls the carbon dioxide concentration. The ocean holds a vast amount of car...
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Food And Shelter Coral Reefs
682 wordsCorals and Adaptations Coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive communities on Earth. They are found in the warm, clear, shallow waters of tropical oceans worldwide. Reefs have functions ranging from providing food and shelter to fish and invertebrates, to protecting the shore from erosion. Although many corals resemble plants, they are actually members of the animal phylum Cnidaria. Most corals are colonial, which means that each coral is made up of many individual polyps connected...
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Rest Of The World Rocky Mountains
1,394 wordsGive An Overview Of Life Through The Give An Overview Of Life Through The Tertiary, In Relation To Changing Paleogeography And Climate The tertiary consisted of two main epochs. The Paleocene, the Eocene and the Oligocene, which make up the Paleogene; and the Miocene and Pliocene, which make up the Neogene. The close of the Cretaceous Period marked a major transition in Earth s history. Ammonoids and marine reptiles disappeared from the sea. Marine taxa that persist as familiar inhabitants of mo...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
403 wordsDinosaurs: How they became extinct Something happened 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, something so devastating that it altered the course of life on earth. It seems like it happened so sudden, as geologic time goes, that almost all the dinosaurs living on earth disappeared. So how did these dominant creatures just die off? Was it a slow extinction, or did it happen all of the sudden? These questions bring rise to many different beliefs on how the dinosaur disappeared o...
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Earth Surface Polar Regions
1,264 wordsThe world? ? s ocean covers about 70 % of the Earth? ? s surface. It is use to produce us many things. It is more than a place to swimming, sailing and other recreation. The ocean serves as a source of energy, raw materials and most of all food like fish and seaweed. In this essay I will talk about What are our ocean resources and the importance of the oceans in the future. First, our largest resource in the ocean is food. There are two different kinds of food in the ocean, such as marine plants...
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