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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,344 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alaska proved to be a disaster on many levels. The coastline, wildlife, and people of the all area were all devastated by the spill. Ten years later, the area is showing remarkable progress. Because of the cleanup efforts and new regulations, the Sound is getting ever closer to recovery. A few minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the T/V Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. A few minutes later the coast gua...
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Grey Wolf Wolves Live
323 wordsScientific name -Kingdom-Animalia, Phylum- Chordate, Class- Mammilla, Order- Carnivorous, Family- Canada, Genus- Canis, Species- lupus Description -Canis lupus's' height ranges from about 21 - 38 inches and three and a half feet long. Their weight ranges from 20 - 172 pounds. It is one of the largest wolves in the world. They also range in color from pure white to near black. The gray wolves are a very intelligent animal and they learn quickly to avoid humans and there trap's. Grey wolves have a...
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Tropical Rainforests Deep Sea
543 wordsSnelgrove and Grass in The Deep Sea: Desert and Rainforest published in Oceanus, volume 38 in 1995 argue that the popular belief that the deep sea is little more than an ocean desert is a pure fallacy. Contrary to such thinking a multitude of benthic organisms dwell on the ocean bottom; despite the frigid temperatures and high pressure, a large heterogeneity of creatures, rivaling in variety and number those inhabiting tropical rainforests, thrive in this environment. The analogy of the ocean de...
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Richard Nassau Watches Tv Animals
1,017 wordsThroughout my life, the same scene in the television screen registered in different ways. The camera zooms in for the last shot of a lone hyena wheezing his way out of life. He may be dying of heat exhaustion or thirst or hunger, but his small eyes roll side to side slowly and then... just... stop. Equally significant and striking is the close-up of the very violent death of a baby seal as a hyena simultaneously shakes him into submission and breaks his spine. The camera is always held steady; n...
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Science And Technology Advancement Of Science
833 wordsScience and technology may be partly responsible for many of the problems that face us today. The problems are the advancement of weapons, bombs, biochemical and nuclear weapon, which brought us violence amongst ourselves and others. Another problem is human dependences on technology, such as the internet, computers, cell phones etc. Yet one of the biggest problems is pollution. Three types of pollution that dominate they are water, air and noise pollution. Water is one of the several resources ...
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Ability To Communicate Body Temperature
628 wordsAccording to Charles Darwin, the various species and individuals compete for the same territories, and thus organisms that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive, reproduce, and transmit their features or traits to the next generation. Ability to reproduce efficiently In actuality, there are a few brain structures that give humans the arousal, desire, and necessity to reproduce. However, the Reticular Activating System and the Hypothalamus are particularly responsible...
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Indian Pythons Indian Python Snakes
648 wordsThroughout history, humans have regarded snakes with both fascination and horror. In man y cultures, Snakes with have been symbols of evil, from the Biblical serpent in the Garden of Eden to the snake demons of Indian mythology. To the ancient Egyptians the emblem of judgment and death was a snake. However, The Indian Python is a highly arboreal snake, once fairly common throughout the jungles of India, Sri Lanka, and East Indies. Snakes are reptiles, the group of animals that also includes croc...
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Eastern Gray Kangaroo Management Plan
873 wordsNonetheless, in this plan, I shall try to cover any concerns in an effort to show how to further benefit the Macropus gigantes. My first concern is the kangaroo's habitat. Kangaroos can survive in very dense packs, called mobs, as has been shown by studies recording as many as 357 kangaroos per square kilometer living in a single nature reserve. However, they prefer to have more land available to them for grazing, as they feed primarily on shrubs and grasses that grow in the open fields. To addr...
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Siberian Tiger Siberian Tigers Animal
469 wordsThe fur of the Siberian tiger is long, thick and yellow with dark black stripes running through it. The coat of this animal is reddish colored in the summer months. The underside of the Siberian tiger is bright white, and the tail area is white and black. What its eating habits are: Like all members of the cat family, tigers are carnivores. The Siberian tiger hunts a wide range of prey, including small mammals, deer, water buffalo, wild pigs, and birds. Tigers ambush their prey, often camouflagi...
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Ancient Israelites Jewish Religion
1,023 wordsCults are becoming more and more of an issue for Jews every day. Many cults are beginning to target Jews. They say you can believe in Jesus yet remain a Jew, or many other things like that. It is important for people to educate themselves of these cults and their recruiting techniques so that they will not be taken advantage of by these cults. Cults now are very different than they were in ancient times though. The Jews, rather than being targeted by cults, were themselves a cult. In fact they w...
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Plant And Animal Tropical Forests
960 wordsIt is a known fact that since man has entered the Industrial Age in society, he has taken advantage of what natural resources that have been accessible to him. Mankind has brought about the extinction of many plant and animal species. He has dumped waste and polluted many lakes, rivers, and streams to the point where nothing can exist in them any longer. He has destroyed forests at an alarming rate causing many species to die and the loss of thousands of square miles of forest area, a majority o...
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Plant And Animal Origin Of Species
815 wordsCharles Robert Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundation of modern evolutionary theory with his views on life development through natural selection. He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809. After graduating from the elite school at Shrewsbury in 1825, Darwin attended the University of Edinburgh where he studied medicine. In 1827 he dropped out and entered the University of Cambridge in preparation for becoming a clergyman of the Church of England. While ...
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Coastal Plain Oil Fields
520 wordsOpening the Alaskan Oil Fields is the Right Thing to Do Energy is precious to the American way of life. Without sufficient amounts of energy, Americans would not have the privileges and opportunities that transportation and electricity give them today. In order to possess a sufficient amount of energy, America needs a reliable and renewable source of energy. The oil that lies beneath the Alaskan Coast Plain would yield this amount. Since a domestic resource of energy would establish a safe and s...
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Milky Juice Life Cycle Plant
379 wordsScientific Dandelion Information Dandelion Information Scientific name -Kingdom-Plant, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Class- Angiospermae, Order- Asterales, Family- Asteraceca, Genus- Taraxacum, Species- official Description The Taraxacum official is a perennial herb that grows from two to eighteen inches tall they are a stem less plant and all parts of the plant contain a milky juice. The leaves are an olive or a dull yellowish color, and smooth with ridged edges where it got its common name, dandelion ...
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Milky Juice Life Cycle Plant
373 wordsScientific name -Kingdom-Plant, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Class- Angiospermae, Order- Asterales, Family- Asteraceca, Genus- Taraxacum, Species- officialeDescription The Taraxacum official is a perennial herb that grows from two to eighteen inches tall they are a stem less plant and all parts of the plant contain a milky juice. The leaves are an olive or a dull yellowish color, and smooth with ridged edges where it got its common name, dandelion from the French words dent de lion which means lions to...
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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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North Africa North America
267 wordsMan! The Eagles Golden Eagle Man! The Golden Eagle might be very interesting to learn about, including its description, habitat, and eyes. The first and foremost thing about the golden eagle is that it is a raptor. It also it has powerful muscles and sharp claws, as well as, an efficient respiratory system for breathing. Its digestive organs dissolve fur, feathers, bones, and insects whole! It needs lots of food for body temperature and energy. The Golden Eagles wing span is over 8 ft. The eagle...
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Logging Companies Major Factor
913 wordssubject = Environmental Issues title = Bears Beware papers = Please put your paper here. In our world today many animals and plants are loosing their fight against human intervention in their once well-balanced ecosystem. We are all aware of the extinction of the dinosaurs and the dodo birds, however most people do not realize that annually thousands of species of our flora and fauna are now becoming extinct. This on going trend is increasingly threatening our bio diversity and global ecology. T...
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Blood Vessels Social Behavior
1,527 wordsInsect, small, air-breathing animal characterized by a segmented body with three main parts head, thorax, and abdomen. In their adult forms, insects typically have three pairs of legs, one pair of antennae, and in most instances, two pairs of wings. Insects rank among the most successful animals on Earth. About one million species of insects have been identified so far, which is about half of all the animals known to science. That is why for every pound of human on the earth there are 10 pounds ...
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Northern Hemisphere Food Shortage
875 wordsThe gray whale decline has been an eminent problem for many decades. There are numerous reasons for the gray whales to be in decline. Some of these reasons include the whale hunting that occurred in the mid 1860 s into the early 1870 s on the coast of California (Jones, pg. 173). There are, to this day, two countries that continue to ignore the whale moratorium (Busch, pg. 103). Another reason is the dead gray whales washing up on the shores of the West Coast, which is probably due to their food...
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