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Beneath The Surface Mauna Loa
1,512 wordsWhich are the biggest (tallest and largest volume) and smallest volcanoes on Earth? The island of Hawaii is probably the largest volcano on earth. From its base (on the floor of the Pacific Ocean) to the summit of Mauna Kea (about 13 000 ft) is some 30 000 ft i. e. higher than Everest. The island comprises several coalescing volcanoes including Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Kilauea. Mauna Loa alone has an estimated volume of 40 000 km 3. It is impossible to say which is the smallest volcano since the...
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Seismic Waves Plate Boundaries
1,198 words... dates. An example of the most well known and studied fault is the San Andreas Fault located of the coast of California. The origin of volcanoes: Hot spots, can be found on plate boundaries or inside the plates. The hot spot is a place deep inside the Earth that begins to form molten lava from extreme heat conditions. It will quickly rise up, pushing and melting its way to the surface resulting in a volcano. Because of the constant moving of the plates, the volcano will be carried away from t...
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Ran As Fast Rain Forest
1,908 wordsI awoke, there was a crash on the upper deck. I heard a thunderous crackling from my head above. I ran up the stairs and what I saw devastated me. The small wooden boat was completely coated in billowy flames. "Help, help, somebody please!" I slowly moved towards the sound being careful to dodge flames as much as possible. The smoke was choking me. I could see a faint outline of a face across the deck. It was Tom, my lifelong friend and companion. He was completely surrounded by the bright flame...
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Earths Crust Earths Magnetic
1,642 wordster> What is the evidence for our knowledge of the internal structure of the Earth? As we enter the twenty first century we are beginning to learn more and more about the composition of the Earth. Early predictions have thrown up some rather strange and peculiar thoughts as to what is making up our Earth, but now days scientists can be confident that the Earth is made up of what they think. As from experiments and other sources of information a picture to what is really down there is b...
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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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H M S Theory Of Evolution
1,301 wordsCharles Darwin was born on Feb. 12. His full name is Charles Robert Darwin. He died on April 19, 1882. Darwin was an English naturalist known for his theory of evolution and for its operation, known as Darwinism. His evolutionary theories, mostly in two works: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) -have had an important influence on scientific thought. Charles was the son of Robert Darwin, who had one of the ...
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Reggio Emilia Lazzaro Spallanzani Gillispie
746 wordsLazzaro Spallanzani Lazzaro Spallanzani, was the Italian physiologist who was one of the founders of experimental biology. Born in Scandia no, a small town in the providence of Emilia on Jan. 12, 1729, Spallanzani was among the many dedicated philosophers of the eighteenth century (Lazzaro... 1). His main scientific interests were biological and was a master at microscopy, but he also looked into problems of physics, chemistry, geology, and meteorology, and volcanology (Gillispie, 1). After atte...
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Degrees Celsius Solar System
456 wordsMercury is the closest planet to the sun. It's average distance from the sun is approximately fifty-eight million km and it's diameter is 4875 km, making it the second smallest planet in our solar system. It's volume and mass are about 1 / 18 that of the earth and it's average density is approximately equal to that of the earth. Mercury's magnetic field is one-hundred times weaker than that of Earth's. Mercury has the shortest revolution of all the planets in our solar system and revolves around...
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Papua New Guinea Indigenous Population
1,666 words... in the Duke of York group. Central to Tolai culture is the Tumbuan society, personified by a large tapa mask with circular eyes painted on the front topped by a black and white feather. This sacred Tolai Tumbuan masks arrive for a boy's initiation ceremony Traditional Malangan house display showing their masks, friezes, and sculptures. The man in front wearing a blue lava-lava is the "Rate" or ceremonial leader for this clan culture. A man wearing tapa cloth mask represents an important fema...
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Taking Into Account Lava Flows
1,159 wordsWhat event occurred at the division between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, and why was this important to the dinosaurs? The extinction is a topic that now requires rather more digging than talking. The Triassic and Jurassic periods were remarked by changes that influenced both: relief and biologic forms of life. The dinosaurs were the most typical representatives of fauna for the Triassic and Jurassic periods. These periods are characterized by tectonic activity, worsening of climate conditi...
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Molten Rock Degrees F
715 wordsMy Journey to Iceland During my journey to Iceland, I have seen a natural event that made that journey very important to me. In southeastern Iceland, some 4, 500 feet above sea level, lies Vatnajokull -- the largest temperate-zone ice cap in Europe. Vatnajokull, 3, 200 frozen square miles overlying Iceland's most active volcanic region, sits, as does the rest of the island, above a mantle plume -- a column of hot rock that rises from the depths of Earth and feeds volcanoes with lava. Although it...
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Evidence To Support Continental Drift
1,020 wordsWe live in an extraordinary era of exploration. We are now able to reach far out into space and deep down into the ocean. We have the advantage with technology such as computers and satellites. We can now simply understand the dynamic forces that shape our Earth. Our Earth is constantly destructing and recreating. It balances through a continuous rebirth cycle. The Earth? s dynamic shape can be summed up very simply-Transfer Of Energy. This " Big Idea" helps to explain many things such...
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Zeus Bermuda Triangle
1,567 wordsEarthquake (A parallel to Typhon) INTRODUCTION The myth of Earthquake has three different purposes. First, its shows the power of Zeus, being able to maintain peace and order in the universe which he rules. Earthquake is the first challenger of Zeus? s great power. Earthquake is a very formidable foe that has tremendous strength and size. Zeus got rid of Earthquake by himself and was able to triumph, but the triumph would not have been possible without the support and help of other gods. The God...
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Million Years Ago Millions Of Years
923 wordsReptiles Enjoyed Warm Arctic (Global Warming) An article written by ABC News writer Kenneth Chang discusses the change in climate of the arctic from ninety million years ago. Seven hundred miles from the North Pole, lies an island called Axel Heiberg, a barren land that scientists have dug up fossil bones of a cold-blooded reptile known as a champsosaur. How does this happen in an arctic, freezing land? How does a reptile that needs the warmth of the sun to survive, live in a frigid climate? Wel...
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Shield Volcanoes Volcanic Activity
435 wordsKilauea Hawaii consists of a string of islands, or an archipelago. Kilauea is located on one of these islands, the central Hawaii island. Kilauea is one of the world? s most active volcanic craters. Craters are formed either by the massive collapse of material during volcanic activity, by unusually violent explosions, or later by erosion during dormancy (Compton's). It is situated on the southeastern slope of the great volcanic mountain Mauna Loa. Its elevation is 1111 m (3646 ft. ) above sea le...
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Time It Takes Surface Of Mars
1,058 wordsMars is the fourth planet from the sun at about 228 million-km (141 million miles) and the last terrestrial planet from the sun. The next five planets in order from the sun are gaseous. Mars follows closely behind Earth but is comparatively smaller, with about half the diameter of Earth and about one-tenth of Earth s mass. Thus the force of gravity on Mars is about one-third of that on Earth. Though it is much smaller, Mars does have the same surface land area as Earth. Other than Earth, Mars po...
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Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin
1,001 wordsMellville And Darwin's Writings On The Galapagos Mellville And Darwin's Writings On The Galapagos Islands Mellville and Darwin's Writings on the Galapagos Islands During the nineteenth century, two prominent writers, Herman Mellville and Charles Darwin both voyaged to the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador. Both of these individuals wrote descriptive passages about the physical attributes and atmosphere of the Galapagos Islands. The passages vary in specific content due to the intentions...
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Volcano Is Formed Minerals And Fragments Helens
289 wordsMt. St. Helens Top of Volcano Blown Off In Blast! 18 / 04 / 82. 60 people were killed today when Mt. St Helens blew its top Mt. St Helens erupted two years ago today in a blast that caused the volcano to be reduced by 451 metres (1313 feet). The volcano is south-western Washington and is part of the Cascade Range. Mt. St Helens had been dormant since 1859 and has let off its first blast since then today. The volcano killed all life in an area of 180 sq. cm (70 sq. miles) including at least 60 pe...
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Steel Industry Raw Materials
1,075 wordsAmerican steel industry fell behind the Japanese industry, so changes had to be made in the processes of manufacturing. Nucor Steel opened in 1989 in Indiana and made a revolution in steel industry. Keith Russe is the general manager of the plant. The Nucor plant is rather small, but they produce 800, 000 tons of steel each year. The reason of high productivity is the computer integrated manufacturing and management. Team work is also very important. The computer system integrates business infor...
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Greek Myth Objective Reality
1,611 wordsSubjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Subjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Red Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a world of subjective reality. Carson explores the relationship between subject and object through a reworking of an original Greek myth. The original myth is of Herakles, whos tenth labor was to kill Geryon, a red winged monster who lived on an island, and steal his cattle. Carson takes the insignificant character of Geryon and creates a story based...
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