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Years Of Age Council Of State
814 wordsCuba is the largest island in the west Indies. It is south of Florida and east of Yucatan peninsula. The island of Cuba is about 760 mi. (1225 km. ), from Cabo De San Antonio to Cabo Mail. The total area is about 44, 218 mi. (114, 524 sq. km). About! / 4 of Cuba is mountains and hills. The rest is mainly flat or rolling terrain. The mountains are all over Cuba. The main mountain ranges of Cuba are the Sierra De Los Organs, in the west, the Sierra de Trinidad, in the center, and the Sierra Maestr...
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Korean Peninsula Palm Trees
1,165 wordsCheju Island, blessed with such natural scenery, is well known as the Honeymoon island and has also been called an island of Fantasy and the Home of Gods. Cheju Island is famous as a Mecca for honeymooners, and the islands sightseeing spots are often crowed with young married couples. It's also the nation's most popular tourist destination, a warmer home to beaches, forests and the volcanic Mount Hall, at 6, 435 feet (1, 950 meters), the country's highest peak. History dwells here, too. Mongol i...
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U S Dollars Infant Mortality
2,014 words... until in the late 1980 's. Preventative health programs and provision of potable water have greatly reduced infant mortality since the 1950 's. The official infant mortality rate of 24. 8 per 1, 000 is tied with Costa Rica for the lowest in Central America, although actual rates are probably higher due to under reporting in rural areas. By the 1970 's, Belize had eradicated malaria and dengue fever, but both diseases made a major resurgence in the following decade. By law, education is compu...
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Cattle Ranching Tropical Forests
1,623 words... way. This leaves a bare plot thats not very useful for anything anymore. Slash and burn agriculture in essence ruins the very delicate ecosystem that promoted growth in that area. Something as simple as opening up an area to direct sunlight throws the balance out of whack. Because the soils are left less fertile, the farmers must slash and burn new lands to raise more crops. This is a continuing process thats repeated over and over again, leaving behind it a deadly trail of unprotected land ...
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Green And Orange Combined With The Nature Station
1,139 wordsIt is never pleasant to wait in the cold for however long it takes for the train to arrive at the public transit stations, otherwise known in Boston as the T, during the winter. Nor is the thought of waiting during an intolerable heat wave in July to catch the subway across to the different communities of Boston. Honestly, there is never a time where I would call it enjoyable to sit inside of the MBTA. That was until I began to notice some of the art around me. I would have to say that the first...
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Deep Sea March 30
1,577 wordsTurtle Island is one of the many islands in Fiji. Many say that it is the most magical island there also. Turtle Island the Resort, is five star, and a perfect place to spend your honeymoon, or a special event. Though it may be expensive, it is worth it, it is one of those vacations that you will remember for the rest of your life. Turtle Island has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, including the Blue Lagoon. The people that work at Turtle Island are very kind and helpful; they wa...
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Ernest Hemmingway Key West
626 wordsWrestling with Hemmingway in a Dream-Hallucination I sat outside of the Hogsbreath Saloon with my chin in my hand and a newspaper with a headline about Ernest Hemmingway's life being celebrated this coming week in Key West. It was a hot afternoon and I was groggy after being drunk the night before and I wanted to be in my bed, but the little room that my friends and I rented was like an oven in the afternoon tropical heat. I was in Florida on vacation with three of my high school friends and we ...
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Make A Difference Tropical Rainforest
1,537 wordsRETELL: BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE AMAZON RAINFOREST AND OTHER RAINFORESTS The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest. It covers approximately 2 million square miles in the Amazon River Basin of South America (Lyman 1998, 61) About two-thirds of the rainforest lies in Brazil. The forest also covers parts of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, and Venezuela (Lyman 1998, 32) In the Amazon rainforest it contains a wider variety of plants and animal life than any other place i...
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Part Of The World Tropical Rainforest
572 wordsBiodiversity is described by Ruth Patrick as, the presence of a large number of species of animals and plants (Patrick 15). In other words, biodiversity is the term for the measure of the variety of different species that do exist still on our plant. These species can range from the simplest bacteria to the very complex primates. Biodiversity can relate locally or globally. For example the Southern New England forest contains 20 or 30 tree species while in the rainforest of Peru there are hundre...
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Monkey See Monkey Monkey Told Zebra
450 wordsMonkey See Monkey Do Once upon a time, in a tropical forest far away, there lived a monkey and a zebra. The monkey was wild and wreck less, while the zebra was a busy bee perfectionist. Well, one day the monkey told a fib about how today was opposite day. The zebra thought, well, if it is a tropical holiday, then shoot, I am going to have to act like him and hes going to act like me. The monkey delighted with his plan told everyone else that the zebra would act like a party animal and he would h...
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Aesthetic Value Asia Pacific
798 wordsAnalyse the impact of biophysical and ecological factors upon the nature, spatial patterns and future directions of an economic activity that you have studied Tourism is an activity where a person undertakes travel and being a house apart from their own for at least one night. It affects all ecosphere's and the sustainability of the environment by its characteristics, why and where its located and its foreseeable trends. The characteristics of tourism is its direct link to technology, and becaus...
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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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Costa Rica San Jose
963 wordsCosta Rica is officially known as the Republic of Costa Rica. It is 19, 575 square miles in size and has a population of approximately 3, 342, 000 people. It is bordered by Panama and Nicaragua. The capital of Costa Rica is San Jose. Its coastal areas are hot and humid and heavily forested. It has a large chain of volcanoes rising over 12, 000 feet. The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish. It is a democratic nation and has no military. Costa Rica has only 3 national newspapers. History Ch...
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Coat Of Arms Costa Rica
832 wordsby Costa Rica Costa Rica by Brandon Noll Costa Rica's official language is Spanish. And nearly all Costa Ricans speak Spanish, but many blacks still speak a Jamaican dialect (local form) of English. About per cent of the people belong to the Roman Catholic Church. The basic money unit is the colon which is worth about a penny in the U. S. The total land area is 19, 730 sq. mi. In Costa Rica there are three main land regions: the Central Highlands, the Carribean Lowlands and the Pacific Coastal S...
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Brightly Colored Tropical Brightly Colored Bay
1,100 words&# 65279; What I Did this Weekend While on vacation in Acapulco Mexico, I, along with my family and friends took a tour by boat to a small resort island. As we approached, I was awestruck by its beauty. I knew this was going to be fun, but had no idea that this place would be forever etched in my mind. We were greeted at the dock by two natives dressed in brightly colored tropical shirts, white pants and shoes. They were also wearing smiles just as bright. They escorted us to an open-air type re...
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Percent Of The World Rain Forests
484 wordsThe discussions these days are why are the rain forests depleting? Well this research will help change the opinions of many people. Some facts about rain forests are, ? Tropical rain forests occupy about 7 percent of the earth? s surface but harbor as much as 50 percent of the world? s plant and animal species. Also about 57 percent of all rain forests remaining are in the tropics in the Western Hemisphere: 30 percent are in Brazil. At the current rate of deforestation, tropical rain forests cou...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,421 wordsWorld History Human Evolution Final Copy January 19, 97 How did the early man evolve and change into the way we are today? Human Evolution, the natural development of the species Homo Sapiens, or human beings. The initial man, called the Hominid was short, not intelligent, and very ape like. The next man lived in the stone age; his name was Homo Habilis. After Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus evolved. He was smarter, more efficient, and walked up-right. And he leaded to us, Homo Sapiens A lot of fossi...
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Island Madagascar Forests
495 wordsMadagascar: The Exotic Island Looking at a map of the southern hemisphere, one wouldn t expect such a seemingly small island to be so exotic and bountiful, but the island of Madagascar is just that. A 226, 658 square mile (587, 041 square kilometers) piece of land, with a a coastline of about 2, 480 miles (3, 990 kilometers), it s a beautiful and different view of its large neighbor, Africa. The island itself is made up of ridges, rivers, valleys, and tropical forests sectioning off the differen...
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Parts Of The World Pregnant Women
1,081 wordsMalaria is regarded as one of the worlds deadliest tropical parasitic diseases. It claims more lives than any other communicable disease except tuberculosis. In Africa and other developing countries, it also accounts for millions of dollars in medical costs. Malaria, however, is a curable disease if promptly diagnosed and adequately treated. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the parasite plasmodium. In recent years, most cases in the U. S. have been in people who have acquired the di...
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Gulf Of Mexico Sierra Madre
1,819 wordsMexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country and the second-largest Roman Catholic nation in the world. It extends from the 14 th to the 32 d parallel north of the equator in southern North America. Brazil and Argentina are the only Latin American countries that exceed it in area. The United States borders Mexico on the north, while Guatemala and Belize are found on the southeast, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west and south. The countrys na...
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