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Environmental Protection Agency Oil And Gas
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Amount Of Sunlight Ecological Succession Time
319 wordsThe world around us is slowly and constantly changing. We might never see the small alterations happen, but many years later changes will surly be visible. Over time small changes add up and soon the whole ecosystem is different. This slow change in the land and habitat is called ecological succession. Animals, plants, and weather are some factors that cause this type of change in an ecosystem. Ecological succession begins with a pioneer community. In many cases lichens are the "pioneers. " Lich...
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Species In The Environment Spatial Patterns Model
551 wordsTitle of Lecture: Spatial data acquisition and system modeling: notes from the field and the lab. Department of Lecture: Earth Sciences Date and Time of Lecture: January 13 th, 2000 at 4: 30 pm The primary purpose of the project is to use model simulations to forecast spatial patterns among various species in the environment. By comparing current situations with test results, Graniero hopes to have the ability to predict spatial patterns for species in the environment. This will give environment...
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Endangered Species Atlantic Coast
1,438 words(Charadrius Melodus) Introduction The piping plover, a bird now going extinct, was once very bountiful. When an animal is going extinct, it could mean a lot of things. The Piping Plover is an endangered species. An endangered species is a name for a plant or animal that is slowly dying out. This bird is experiencing population drops, so it is called endangered. It is known to scientists as the Charadrius Melodus (ES: Piping Plover). It mainly resides around the Great Lakes and sometimes lives al...
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Low Income Families Affordable Housing
1,137 wordsAn estimated 5. 1 million American households face worst-case housing needs, according to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Receiving little or no government housing assistance, these families are unable to find a decent place to live at a price they can afford to pay. They are also forced to pay more than half their income for housing, endure overcrowded conditions and live in houses with severe physical deficiencies, and thats just in the U. S. ; worldwide more than 2 bill...
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Rain Forests Major Threat
1,200 wordsIn this melanistic form the cats are more difficult to separate, however the jaguars large head and stocky forelimbs are often a good way to differentiate between the two cats. In the wild, identification would not be an issue as the cats inhabit different continents - the jaguar is the only member of the panther family to be found in the Americas and its is by far the biggest cat on the continent. The Jaguars range, which once spanned from the southern states of the USA down to the tip of South...
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Commercialism Invading Communities In Economic Growth
1,058 wordsIn many growing communities across the nation they are worried about the big developers coming in and making the town into a commercial hellhole. Many are concerned with the economic, social, and wildlife tolls that suburban sprawl will take on the community. A well-known solution to this urban sprawling is smart growth. Smart growth distinguishes the diversity between expansion and the quality of life. Smart growth recognizes the community, but still lets some expansion in through the door. Sma...
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Dominant Male Social Structure
1,760 wordsOrangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus) Man of the Forest Origins The word Orangutan consists of two Malaysian words Oran (person) and Human (forest). Orangutans belong to Primates order of Hominidae family. In Latin, they are referred to as Pongo Pygmaeus. It is believed that their origins can be traced back to Pleistocene period, about 2 million years ago. The area of their habitat used to include most parts of Southeast Asia. However, in our time, orangutans can only be found in secluded areas of Sumatra...
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20 Th Century Tropical Forests
1,791 words... been noticed that male orangutans tend to be less aggressive towards each other, when their social interaction occurs on permanent basis. Usually, this happens when males territories overlap. Female orangutans social role is reduced to raising offspring. Nevertheless, during the mating period, females become much more active. As a rule, males would not approach them, unless being welcomed by a specific mating gesticulation. Male orangutans express their excitement with breaking branches off ...
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Tim Sanderson Anth Tim Sanderson Anth 111 Orangutans
1,040 wordsTim Sanderson Anth 111 In Orangutans Orangutans Tim Sanderson Anth 111 In Malay orang means person and utan is defined as forest. Thus Orangutan literally means Person of the Forest. Orangutans are found in the tropical forests of Sumatra and Borneo. They are the most arboreal of the great apes and move amongst the safety of the trees from one feeding site to the next. They are so well adapted to arboreal life that they cannot place their feet on the ground, instead they walk on the outside of t...
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Endangered Manatee Manatee Population Problem
229 wordsNew Endangered Manatee Endangered Manatee New York Times April 11, 1996 The manatee population has suffered a devastating blow so far this year. About 221 manatees have been found dead already. Out of those 221, 128 have no obvious cause of death. Marine biologists have been unable to find the cause of these deaths. They suspect that the Red Tide off of the coast of southwest Florida has some connection with these mysterious deaths. A red tide is a bloom of flagellates which are deadly to marine...
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Fossil Fuels Environmental Concerns
1,852 wordsIntroduction Traditionally, Western views of environment ethics has been unclear and for the most part unnecessary. We used earths resources without thinking about consequence. This nonchalant use aided in the Wests ability to influence the world through technological advances. In the past, limited travel and slow communication systems had limited our view to a local one. If pollution or to much urbanization occurred the solution was to move. Industrialization has changed things. With science ad...
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Endangered Species Political Actors
1,059 wordsMission Statement from Defenders of Wildlife: Defenders of Wildlife (nickname: Defenders) is dedicated to the protection of all-native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. We focus our programs on what scientists consider two of the most serious environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction. Defenders works through education, advocacy, economic tools, lit...
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Amount Of Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels
1,430 words1. Explain why any one species cannot live everywhere. Any species cannot live everywhere because this would effect the natural balance. Also one species cannot adapt to all the different environments of our planet. For example a marine creature can only live underwater and cannot live on ground. 2. Explain how the activities of some species can lead to: a) an increase b) a decrease in the population size of another species. Some species act as population controllers of other species. There must...
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2 5 Million Columbia River
2,056 wordsThe 1, 000 plus species of Salmon and Steelhead that live off the western coast of the United States and breed in the rivers and tributaries of California, Washington, and Oregon have greatly fallen in population. 106 species have become extinct and 314 more are at risk of extinction in the Columbia River Basin, the focus of this report. The causes of this are dams on the rivers stopping salmon from breeding and smolt from returning to the ocean, and commercial fishing boats depleting mature pop...
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Habitat For Humanity Jimmy Carter
901 wordsThe Carter Center in Atlanta Georgia is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public institute founded by former U. S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in 1982 (Carter Center). The Center in dedicated to fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression. At present, the Center operates 13 core programs, which have touched the lives of people in 65 countries, including the U. S. Habitat for Humanity began in 1984 when Carter led a work group to New York City to renovate a six-story bui...
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Polar Bear Northern Hemisphere
1,018 wordsThere are eight different species of bears found throughout the world: the spectacled bear, the Asiatic black bear, the brown bear (including grizzlies), the polar bear, the sun bear, the American black bear, the sloth bear and the giant panda. Even though most people can distinguish a polar bear from a brown bear by the color of the fur, a lot of people fail to identify all the differences among those two species. Both bears can be perceived as large, clumsy and lumbering beasts with heavily bu...
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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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Resources Crocodilian Species Resources Crocodilian Species List Website Orinoco
270 wordsLocation: The Orinoco Crocodile ORINOCO CROCODILE Location: The Orinoco Crocodile is located in Columbia and Venezuela in South America. It lives in the Orinoco River Basin, which is how it gets its name. The total population is about 1, 500 crocodiles. Habitat: During the rainy season, the river gets waterlogged, which means that it overflows with water creating temporary rivers. In the dry season, the water dries up, so they move closer to shore and build burrows. Some Orinoco Crocodiles have ...
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