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The Inuit People Of Arctic
1,456 wordsThe Inuit are one of the many self-designations of the Eskimo people. They are considered to be of Asian decent, which is noticeable from their small hands and feet. Another distinguishing feature is the appreciable percentage of the B blood type, which seems to be totally absent from the American Indian, whom they are usually mistaken to be descendants of (Mastny 25). These Inuit are scattered in small communities across Northern Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and the Chukotka region of Ea...
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1,036 words"Rainbows the Mythology and the Magic" A rainbow can be classified as an extraordinary and attractive natural phenomenon that has fascinated humans throughout the ages. There have been numerous observations of rainbows and many different definitions passed out through the cultures. Descriptions such as " A rainbow is seven colors in the sky. It is a phenomenon which makes its appearance when it is raining at the same time when the sun is shining. " (Irwin, 32) have been transmitted verbally thro...
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Tree And Plant Life Survey
637 wordsIn this experiment, conducted by Mr. Luckinbill's AP and Advanced Environmental Science class, our goal was to take a trip into the woods behind the Blue Mountain High School and identify and find the relative dominance and density of the tree population and to identify the plant life as well. I believe that we will have found mostly oak and pine trees in the forest, at first glance, they seem to be the dominant trees. For this experiment, we took both a book of trees and a book on plants, and a...
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Ultraviolet Radiation Ozone Layer
1,027 wordsGreenhouse Effect On a bright, cool day, most people notice the sun's rays as feeling good on their skin. By nature, many of us even try to stay on the sunny side of the street while walking. The sun is 93 million miles away from earth and its energy travels to us in moving waves called radiation. The energy becomes heat, light and other energy too. Visible sunlight allows us to see the world around us, but there is invisible sunlight, too. These rays can't be seen, but some can be felt as heat....
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Sulfur Dioxide Carbon Dioxide
1,671 words... d's population, yet consumes 26 % of the world's energy. Imagine what life would be like without electricity? At present most electricity is produced using non-renewable resources like coal but this cannot continue forever. The common characteristic of renewable energy resources is that they are never going to run out. Compared with non-renewable resources, renewable energy is difficult to use and more expensive at present. Not only could renewable resources solve future energy needs but the...
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Skin Cancer Ultraviolet Radiation
1,554 wordsSkin cancer is a disease that can affect any one. Skin cancer includes many types that can be classified as severe or superficial. Consequently, treatment of skin cancer depends on the degree of severity a person has. In the following paper, we will shed lights on the types of skin cancer and its causes. Finally, we will investigate how to treat the different types of cancer and how to avoid it. Skin cancer is a term used to describe cancer in skin tissues. The skin is made of several layers. Sk...
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Blue Green Large Amounts
1,446 wordsStreams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands contain a large part of our precious fresh water. Unfortunately they also act like drains, and everything we leave lying around ends up in them acids, mercury, cadmium, and lead from industry and other resources; soil from logging operations; phosphorus and nitrogen from detergents; sewage, petrol, oil, plastic bags, aluminum cans and paper from roads and parks the list is never ending. More often than not, the results are catastrophic. Being thoroughly discu...
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Degrees Fahrenheit Surface Temperature
1,087 wordsOur planet Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet of our solar system. Uranus is the mysterious blue planet that circles the sun, far from the Earth. A man named William Herschel first discovered this mysterious planet in 1781, he was a German musician living in England who had a great interest in Astronomy. He believed the sky held secrets he wanted to know. He couldnt afford to buy a big telescope, so he made his own. One night in March 1781, Herschel was studying constellations of Gemini. He sp...
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Nude Descending A Staircase Poem Analysis
893 wordsX. J. Kennedy was born in Dover, New Jersey in 1929. Named Joseph Charles Kennedy by his parents, X. J. started writing at a very early age. At only twelve years old, he had published his very own sci-fi magazine titled The Terrifying Test-Tube Tales. At the age of 22, he had already graduated from Seton Hall University, and had earned a Master of the Arts degree from the University of Columbia. X. J. spent the next four years of his life enlisted in the U. S. Navy. Out at sea, he published a ne...
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Twentieth Century Sunday Morning
1,732 wordsEdward Hopper Edward Hopper is American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960 s and 1970 s. Hopper was initially trained as an illustrator, but, between 1901 and 1906, he studied painting under Robert Henri, a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School. Hopper traveled to Europe three times between 1906 and 1910, ...
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Earth Surface Day And Night
1,063 wordsClimate has profound Climate Climate Climate has profound effects on us, and the world in which we live. In turn we as humans, and many other global factors contribute to our climate. Almost everything in our lives somehow impacts or is impacted by climate. We as humans can affect everything, from the food we eat to the air we breathe, including climate. This is through the alteration of the earth? s surface and the introduction of pollutants and chemicals such as carbon dioxide into the atmosph...
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Amount Of Water Wide Range
1,310 wordsINTRODUCTION Deciduous Forests Deciduous Forests INTRODUCTION A deciduous forest, simply described is a forest that is leafless during the winter. Eur species make up this type of forest, meaning that the species can tolerate a wide range of conditions. In the extreme northern latitudes, the growing season is short causing the trees to be leafless the majority of the year. The deciduous forest is subjected to distinct weather cycles and temperature shifts. In this area of the northeast we experi...
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Love At First Sight Palm Trees
1,241 wordsknocked Diary Entry? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I knocked quietly three times on the brown shiny door of the office. ? I needed to speak with Mr. Green, the manager of the building site. ? I needed more working hours as I barely had enough money to get by. ? Looking around the building site I awaited an answer. ? Large piles of rubble rested on uneven ground and men chatted whilst they worked. ? A long narrow wooden bench sat at one end where a few workers gathered for a quick coffee and a cigarette. ? ? ?...
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M P H Ground Level
1,191 wordsField Study Report In the field study report the class was broken down into four groups, parking lot, grass, forest, and shrub areas. In this study students were asked to take 20 minutes out of every lab period and make a one meter plot that all measurements will be taken from. This one meter area represents our entire sub-plot. Then students were asked to take readings in their perspective sub-plots. The students were asked to record four temperature readings, (2 meters, above the ground, 15 cm...
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Potassium Hydroxide Carbon Dioxide
1,400 wordsFinding out about photosynthesis Date: Partners: Aim: To be able to explain the conditions necessary for photosynthesis and to compare experimental results to a control. To recognise tests for some inorganic substances found in plants. Materials: h A plant with variegated leaves in a pot which has been in the dark for 24 hours prior to the class h Iodine h Alcohol h Potassium hydroxide h Hotplate (or Bunsen burner with tripod) h Petri dish h Funnel h 2 flasks (500 ml) h 2 beakers h Aluminium foi...
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Polar Ice Caps Rise In Sea Level
817 wordsGlobal Warming Global Warming, aside from pollution is one of scientists biggest concerns. Global Warming is caused by the Greenhouse effect. There are 4 steps in the Greenhouse effect process. The first is, sunlight radiates from the sun, through space, to the Earth s atmosphere. The second is, sunlight enters the atmosphere and hits the Earth. Some of that sunlight turns into heat energy in the form of infrared light. Surrounding air and land, which in turn makes the heat warm, absorbs the hea...
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Bits Per Second Speed Of Light
1,533 wordsMr. Cruz Physics honors Lasers Raphael Radon Mr. Cruz Physics honors Through out the past few years lasers have been going through many innovations thus having a tremendous impact on technology. What is a laser? A laser is a special kind of light. The initials stand for (L-A-S-E-R light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) Only the light that is commonly know to us is the type that spreads out. Laser light is in a straight beam. There are many types of lasers, some make holograms, ...
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Pineal Gland Autoimmune Diseases
2,133 wordsSet deep in our brains is a tiny gland called the pineal gland. This tiny gland is in charge of the endocrine system, the glandular system that controls most of our bodily functions. The pineal runs our body clocks+, and it produces melatonin; the hormone that may prove to be the biggest medical discovery since penicillin, and the key to controlling the aging process. The pineal gland controls such functions as our sleeping cycle and the change of body temperature that we undergo with the changi...
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Hester And Pearl Nathaniel Hawthorne
881 wordsOften in a literary work, the author strives to use literary devices in order to convey certain points to a reader on a different level. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses several literary devices to give his novel The Scarlet Letter depth. One of these devices is symbolism. Hawthorne utilizes symbolism to convey certain points or themes to the reader by using ordinary objects. Three of the elements he uses as symbols are the settings of the Puritan town and the forest and weather. The first of the two ma...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
1,745 wordsGifted Photochemical Smog Photochemical Smog Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment 1997 March 19 Historically, the term smog referred to a mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The industrial revolution has been the central cause for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, space heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the right conditions, ...
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