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Tropical Rainforest One Thing
522 wordsI live in the rainforest, and I love it. So Im going to share with you some information about my home and way of life. Let me start off with some of my favorite things about my home. One thing would be the Climate. It is not to hot and not to cold, and the temperature stays about the same all year round, the warmest and the coldest months do not differ by more than 5 degrees. But there is a down side to it being like this. The humidity is very high, around 75 %- 100 % in some areas, which is bad...
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Ocean Currents Pacific Ocean
348 wordsSticking with the theme of ocean currents, (from portfolio # 2), I will reflect on Jan Kay? s Dec. 4, 2000 article titled? Warming taking food from Pacific. ? This article was retrieved from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. According to this article, warmer waters and changing ocean currents within the Pacific Ocean maybe causing a decline in plankton. Ocean plankton are the food source for many larger ocean creatures. According to a 50 year study, conducted by California Cooperative Fisheries In...
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Forest Destruction Human Rights
546 wordsA recipe for local and global disaster Industrial logging is the main cause of forest loss throughout the tropics. It is the starting point of a process leading to the forests' final destruction and substitution by agricultural crops, cattle raising or monoculture tree plantations. These are well known facts supported by more than sufficient evidence. Even more importantly, industrial logging destroys the livelihoods of forest and forest-dependent peoples who, deprived of the resources they depe...
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North American Physical Patterns
814 wordsPhysical patterns in geography relates to Landforms, Natural vegetation, Climate, and Agriculture. There are wide variety of Landforms, Natural vegetation, Climate, and Agriculture. The physical patterns can affect North America by the appearance and the type of elevation there is. Landforms Two types of landforms are plains and lowlands and also hills. Plains and lowlands are usually found north of the Mississippi river in North America. They have high elevation and a flat appearance. Plains an...
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Was Colonial Culture Uniquely American
1,205 wordsWas Colonial Culture Uniquely American?"There were never, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel. " Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son, February 22 nd, 1748. Colonial culture was uniquely American simply because of the unique factors associated with the development of the colonies. Never before had the conditions that tempered the colonists been seen. The unique blend of diverse environmental factors and peoples caused the development of a variety of cultures that wer...
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Lavita And Joila Current Of The River Raft
1,371 wordsDear Irene, I would first like to thank you, for encouraging me to enter the competition and I could not believe that I won. As soon as they called out my name on the radio, I went running around my house, crazy, jumping up and down on my small bed, which I think I ruined the springs in it. Although its a pity you could not come with me, because the fact is that I had a spectacular holiday. There was a variety of choices on where to go, but none of them interests me except for one that I have no...
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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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Lord Of The Flies Setting
675 wordsIn the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding the setting had a very strong influence in the actions and attitudes of the characters. Setting is the defined in literature as where the story takes place. In Lord of the Flies, the setting is on a deserted tropical island in the middle of the ocean, where a microcosm is able to be established. Three specific examples of how setting influenced the actions and attitudes of the characters are: The isolation from a civilized world, the mysteries o...
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Playground Of The Gods Cathy Spellman Nature
422 wordsThe Playground of The Gods Cathy Spellman s, The Playground of The Gods is an exuberant novel which deals with murder in a remote tropical paradise but can further be read as an illustration of man s ignorance and invasion of nature. Do it big, or stay in bed. (Larry Kelly). These are words that Thoros Gagarian lives by. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world and when picking his private paradise, only one place on earth could serve his needs and fantasies. This place is Mora Utu-The playg...
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Wardrobe Attire Proper Documentation Money
432 wordsPreparing for a Tropical Cruise Vacation Vacationing to certain tropical destinations might require more than what you think. After making reservations for the Cruise accommodations and flight arrangements you would think the tough part is over. I personally had no idea that going to the Bahamas would require more than valid state identification. I soon realized that I not only had to prepare for my financial needs, wardrobe attire, but also have proper documentation to go on the Cruise. First, ...
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Fast Food Restaurants Global Warming
1,026 wordsFast Food Reality Have you ever asked yourself why are there so many fat people out there? No? Yes? This writer has, and this writer would like to know what the reasons are. It is hard to know all the reasons, but most of them are obvious. We are what we eat. This is one of the simplest reasons, and this writer believes it is right. Most of obese people have bad nutrition habits such as high fat level food intake. According to the United States government, the number of overweight Americans is h...
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Greenhouse Gasses Global Warming
839 wordsGlobal Warming As we all know, Global Warming (G. W) has become a major scientific and social issue during the past decade. Global Warming-the increase in greenhouse gasses- has captured broad public attention because it would easily damage the nature and many souci-cultural aspects of life. Thats why it should be investigated thoroughly. In the following paragraphs, I will introduce you different approaches of some writers and state their possible answers to this global problem. First of all, a...
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Lowland Tropical Forest Golden Marmoset Golden Marmosets
243 wordsGolden Golden Marmoset Golden Marmoset Golden marmosets, or Leontopithecus chrysomelas, have a mane derived from long hairs on the top of the head, cheeks and throat. The golden marmoset is predominantly black with golden to reddish-orange on the front of the mane, the lower half of the front paws and part of the tail. It weighs about 0. 7 kg (1. 5 lb). Golden marmosets prefer primary lowland tropical forest. They eat mostly insects and fruit and small vertebrates such as lizards and birds. The ...
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Tropical Rainforest One Thing
525 wordsI live in the rainforest, and I love it. So I? m going to share with you some information about my home and way of life. Let me start off with some of my favorite things about my home. One thing would be the Climate. It is not to hot and not to cold, and the temperature stays about the same all year round, the warmest and the coldest months do not differ by more than 5 degrees. But there is a down side to it being like this. The humidity is very high, around 75 %- 100 % in some areas, which is b...
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Methane Nitrous Oxide Carbon Dioxide
821 wordsThe greenhouse effect is an increase in the atmospheric temperature caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. These gases act as a heat blanket insulating the Earths surface absorbing and trapping heat radiation which normally escapes from the earth. They include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, CFCs, and other halocarbons. The earths atmosphere goes through two processes constantly. Global cooling is the first process. This process uses the clouds which cover 60 % of...
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Kilometers In Diameter Unlike A Tornado Hurricane
326 wordsThe second part of our report will be about hurricanes. A hurricane is an intense tropical low-pressure area with winds that are 120 kilometers per hour or greater. Hurricanes are also called tropical cyclone or typhoon. The most damage a hurricane does is when the storm surges hits. Storm surges are currents. They form when the hurricane piles up water along the shore and then blows it inland. They are much more damaging during high tide. Hurricanes grow larger and more powerful from the vast a...
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Hydroelectric Energy Water Flowing Dams
555 wordsHydroelectric energy potentially is the result of a fortunate coincidence in which nature and the need to modernize, are combined together in an on- going cycle. The cycle being evaporated, precipitation and concentration. Having water, though, does not necessarily mean having hydroelectric potential. To be in usable form, that water must be in continuous supply, accessible and concentrated in rivers with a volume flows and a descent rate, sufficient to drive generating turbines. The only way th...
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Tropical Rain B C
364 wordsThe Maya are probably the best known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Originating in the Yucatan around 2600 B. C. , they rose to prominence around A. D. 250. Mesoamerica spans five countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. They inherited a lot of their ideas from the Olmec. The Maya developed astronomy, calendrical systems, and hieroglyphic writing. The Maya were also known for their decorated architecture, which included temples and palaces. They were also ...
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Soil Sample Tropical Flowers Day
421 wordsSoil Analysis Within the next few paragraphs, I will tell you all about the soil sample I collected and did tests on. I got some soil from out of one of my moms gardens. This one had a lot of flowers from Florida. This is a summary of what all I did to work on finding everything about my soil. Day 1: The first day I had forgotten my soil sample. Therefore I could not let it dry out like the rest of the classes did. Day 2: I brought my soil sample in and let it dry. I had time to catch up on some...
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Human Activity Human Environment
559 wordsReconstruction of local area? terrain, availability of water ground water, susceptibility to flooding. ? Conditions over different years. Loss of sits through erosion, inundation and burial under sediment. Glaciers can give us clue to possible resources of earlier ages Varves etc layers of sediment thickness explaining climate Rivers: important as settlement often nearby due to settle deposits, changing course through natural processes shows lots of changes. ? Rough chronology of sites from rive...
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