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Fresh Kills Landfill Sanitary Landfill
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Greek Philosopher Atlantic Ocean
1,022 wordsThesis Statement: Many world renowned historical philosophers, explorers, and premonition ists have made many credible theories about the lost continent which have historical documentation to make them believable. IV. Atlantis and the Earths Shifting Crust Do you believe in the lost continent of Atlantis? Or do you believe that it is merely a fairy tale for a misrepresentation in history? Many of these glitches in history have been exploited as absurd accounts of a lost continent once destroyed....
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Methane Nitrous Oxide Carbon Dioxide Methane
1,647 wordsWhy are the Heads of State Increasingly Worried About Global Warming? In the last few decades the worlds sea levels have risen, the weather has become more unpredictable and countries are now facing hotter summers with colder winters. This is due to global warming, which is becoming an increasingly real problem. But why is global warming a problem? If scientists theories are correct, then the results world over would be catastrophic. Global warming is the build up of greenhouse gases in the atmo...
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Sea Level Canal Panama Canal
1,785 wordsThe Panama Canal has been called the big ditch, the bridge between two continents, and the greatest shortcut in the world. When it was finally finished in 1914, the 51 -mile waterway cut off over 7, 900 miles of the distance between New York and San Francisco, and changed the face of the industrialized world ("Panama Canal"). This Canal is not the longest, the widest, the deepest, or the oldest canal in the world, but it is the only canal to connect two oceans, and still today is the greatest ma...
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One Hundred Years Mauna Loa
1,337 wordsViewing an erupting volcano is a memorable experience; one that has inspired fear, superstition, worship, curiosity, and fascination throughout the history of mankind. The active Hawaiian volcanoes have received special attention worldwide because of their frequent spectacular eruptions, which can be viewed and studied with a relative ease and safety. The island of Hawaii is composed of five volcanoes, three of which have been active within the past two hundred years. Kilauea's latest eruption s...
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Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean
1,327 wordsPlease note this is a "Scientific Report" not an essay please bare this in mind. Introduction The word Tsunami is a Japanese term meaning wave in the harbour. It is the most apt description for the hazard as tidal wave or seismic wave lead to incorrect connotations and misunderstandings. The dictionary definition of the word Tsunami itself means a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption, this is only half accurate, which I will attempt to illustrate in this ...
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Destination Yellowstone National Park
646 wordsYellowstone National Park was named after the Yellowstone River. Native Americans called the river Mi tsi a da zi, which meant Rock Yellow River, and was translated by French fur trappers to Yellow Rock or Yellow Stone, hence the name Yellowstone. John Coltzer was one of the first people to have explored the Yellowstone area. Coltzer was from the Lewis and Clark expedition and he walked alone through this area in 1807 while in search of furs. Since 1827, though, Yellowstone has been a national p...
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20 Th Century Effects Of Global
1,147 wordsImagine that all the coastal areas in the world were completely submerged in water and the national parks and rangelands of the world were nothing but barren disasters. This scenario will become a reality if global warming continues to occur. Ecosystems will be severely damaged due to the change in weather it causes. Studies show that the change in weather can also spread contagious diseases that are carried by mosquitoes and other virus carrying animal that dwell in warm areas. The cause of thi...
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Green House Effect Carbon Dioxide
1,108 wordsGLOBAL WARMING Dear grandpa, Do you aware that our grand children and great children may be the victim of global warming during the next century? In 1986, the Swedish chemist state Arrhenius first revealed the theory that carbon emissions from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels could generate a green house effect by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere leading to global warming. Electro magnetic energy emanating from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth, which radiates some of this energy o...
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Retarding Exercises And Rehabilitation Of People With Emphysema
1,940 wordsRetarding exercises and rehabilitation of people with emphysema Nowadays lung diseases have become more famous killers in the whole world... Many scientists and doctors consider smoking as the cause of many diseases, but some confusing conflicts in the data suggest there may be other important cases. The research paper should embrace all aspects of emphysema: symptoms, treatment and, of course, physical therapy. (Bazex 2002) At first it is necessary to give the definition of this disease. For ex...
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West Virginia Congress Passed
2,142 wordsBluefield Bluefield, Wv BLUEFIELD, W. V. Bluefield is located in southern West Virginia along the foothills of one of the most beautiful mountain valley settings to be found anywhere. The city stands at 2, 612 feet above sea level in the East River Mountain, making it West Virginias loftiest incorporated community. (Greater Bluefield Area Community Profile) With the average temperature in January at 35 o F and July at only 71 o F, Bluefield is nicknamed Natures Air Conditioned City. In fact, a t...
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Republic Of Ireland Roman Catholic
948 wordsIreland is a Ireland Ireland Ireland is a country in Europe with a coast on the Atlantic Ocean. It is called the Emerald Isle because of its green color. Its people derived mainly from Great Britain. Most of the population is Roman Catholic. The Climate is much like ours. The republic of Ireland covers 83 % of its stand with the other 17 % containing the country of Northern Ireland. There are twenty-six counties in the Republic with the over-all capitol of Dublin. The six northeastern counties f...
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Amount Of Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels
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Fresh Kills Landfill Sanitary Landfill
1,598 wordsIt has long been believed that the largest entity brought upon the Earth by humankind is the Pyramid of the Sun, constructed in Mexico around the start of the Christian era. The mammoth structure commands nearly thirty million cubic feet of space. In contrast, however, is the Durham Road Landfill, outside San Francisco, which occupies over seventy million cubic feet of the biosphere. It is a sad monument, indeed, to the excesses of modern society [Gore 151 ]. One might assume such a monstrous mo...
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Coastal Plain Hudson River
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Global Warming Sea Level
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