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Soil Erosion Soil Particles
1,127 words... d and water management, including sediment transport and storage in lowlands, reservoirs, estuaries, and irrigation and hydropower systems. In the USA, soil has recently been eroded at about 17 times the rate at which it forms: about 90 % of US cropland is currently losing soil above the sustainable rate. Soil erosion rates in Asia, Africa and South America are estimated to be about twice as high as in the USA. FAO estimates that 140 million ha of high quality soil, mostly in Africa and Asia...
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South Africa Mountain Ranges
1,179 wordsSouth Africa is the southernmost part of the continent of Africa. It is one of the earth's oldest and stable landmasses. This is why there are no folded mountain ranges. The only mountain ranges that are similar to that kind of range, would be those in the southern tip. This is where the north-south ranges meet an east-west range in the Paarl area. The rest of the country has been slightly pitted so that interior lakes like the Okovango Delta have no outlet to the sea. Most of the country is at ...
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National Park Service San Francisco Bay
1,096 wordsNestled in the foothills of San Francisco, lies one of the United States most beautiful and historic national parks. Dating back to 1776 when Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza established the Presidio as a military garrison under commission of the government of Spain. In 1848 it was transferred by a treaty from Mexico, to the United States. The Presidio has played a major role in the settlement and defense of the West for more than 200 years. It served as a mobilization and embarkation poin...
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Ethnic Groups Tropical Rain
992 wordsAfrica, until the middle to late nineteenth century was known as The Dark Continent. The reason for this reputation was that at the time no outsider was able to go in land of the big continent and see the diversity and the complexity of it... The first impression the European got was what they saw that the coastal areas of Africa and took this impression back to their countries and labeled the continent as being dark, not only because the encounter they had with dark skinned people also because ...
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Circle Of Life Lion King
846 wordsThere are four stages that are needed to have a successful hydrologic cycle; they are precipitation, evaporation, run off, and infiltration. Now Mother Nature has very delicately monitored these four stages ever since the earth was created. The delicate balance of water being put into and taken out of the earth maintained a natural hydrological cycle world wide, but since man has inhabited the world, the cycle has changed. At first minor changes to the cycle did not really affect the efficiency ...
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65 Million Years Millions Of Years
1,224 words... nd obscurity. Today, the name of Lamarck is associated merely with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits. " However, Charles Darwin, Lyell, Haeckel, and other early evolutionists acknowledged him as a great zoologist and as a forerunner of evolution. Would Lamarck have agreed with Darwin? That is the question. Since Lamarck believe that creatures willed themselves to change, he would have felt that the moths felt the need to change. He may have supported natur...
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Caribbean Islands British Control
1,330 words... early - the Caribs either killed or held the missionaries hostage and the Spanish were not willing to pit their fighting skills against a skilled enemy and the rugged terrain of Dominica. In fact, this attitude pretty much summed up how the next wave of European colonists, the English and the French, were to feel when they arrived in Dominica at the start of the 1600 's. The English and the French were in a race to colonize the Caribbean in order to tap into the riches that lay in exploiting...
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Human Beings Thousand Years
669 wordsAfrican's past can be dated back to millions and millions of years. People from every continent is a descendant of the African origin. This essay will explain African's isolation to the rest of the world and some of the famous contributions and some of Africa's contributions to our world. Researchers have found that African people were the home of the first human beings. They have found fossils and archaeological findings that support thus evidence and by genetic research. These findings date ba...
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People Who Live Nile River
415 wordsThe Comparing and Contrasting of Snails of the The Nile River is a river that winds through Africa into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River is considered to be the river of life for both people and wildlife. People who live along the river have the highest rate of bladder cancer. The Schistosoma Haematobium or blood fluke, which is carried by a snail called the Bulinus Truncatus, infects many people who live along the river. There is a parasitic worm which burrows into blood vessels of the hum...
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Carbon Dioxide Surface Area
3,396 wordsOne of the most little known species of ants in North America is the leaf-cutter ant. This is mainly because it lives in tropical environments and it is not aggressive to animals or humans if not disturbed. The leaf cutting ant is a social insect. Alone the ant is virtually helpless but with the colony it can be a thing feared by animal and human alike. The leaf-cutting ants have a very important role in the tropical forest. They create and manipulate the environment around them. They also can d...
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Hester Prynne Reverend Dimmesdale
772 wordsIn the book The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the story of the adultery of Hester Prynne. In developing his story, he uses many images to give his characters depth and to help explain the plot. Many of these images are religious and natural ones that undermine Puritan ideals. Hawthorne uses these images to show his dislike for the austerity of the religion. To undercut the Puritan religion, Hawthorne uses many religious images. Early in the novel, he describes Hester and her baby as ...
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Greenhouse Gases Greenhouse Effect
832 wordsWhen a person starts their car or does a very small and simple thing the last thing that they are thinking of are the consequences it has to the atmosphere. Because of the continuous changing of the society, the earth has to get used to several different problems. Even though the atmosphere is known to be good because it protects us from the deadly radiation from the sun, it also takes that same heat and engulfs the earth in it. The greenhouse effect refers to the light energy that is trapped by...
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Top Of The Skull Nucl Torus Homo
519 wordsSTATION 1: Fossil 1 displays characteristics of Australopithecus aethiopicus of West Lake Turkana, Kenya. This skull shows the obvious characteristics of a very sharp sagittal crest along the top of the skull, a very wide skull in the cheek area, and an extremely pro gnathic lower skull and jaw area. The cranial capacity also appears to be smaller, suggesting that it is of the earlier hominids. Fossil 2 shows eyebrow ridges and a slight sagittal crest consistent with Homo erectus. The most defin...
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Lord Of The Rings Physical Geography
1,164 wordsMovie Review It is virtually impossible to think of other than Lord of the Rings movie, where the settings of physical geography play such an important role. In fact, the landscapes in this movie are closely integrated in the plot. The movies genre can be defined as epic; this is why it was important for the producers to emphasize on universal essence of natural settings. It is them that define characters act and not the other way around. Lord of the Rings takes place in imaginary place called M...
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Gray Fox Coyote Pacific Slope Flycatcher Species
683 wordsThis work describes the plant community, wildlife habitats, and special-status species that occur within the Toro Canyon area, including the potential for loss of sensitive (endangered, threatened, rare, or otherwise protected) plant communities and wildlife habitats. The Toro Canyon is located between the San Inez Mountains and the Santa Barbara Channel, California, The USA. Toro Canyon begins at the San Inez Mountains and extends approximately 5, 750 acres to the to the Pacific Ocean. Native v...
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Degrees Fahrenheit Degrees Celsius
2,721 wordsOFFICIAL NAME: Commonwealth of Dominica CAPITAL: Roseau SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: Multiparty Republic AREA: 751 Sq Km (290 Sq Mi) ESTIMATED 2000 POPULATION 79, 800 LOCATION &# 038; GEOGRAPHY: Dominica is an island located at the northern end of the windward chain of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It is situated between the French island groups of Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south. The island is almost rectangular in shape and has a deeply indented coast line. It is of vo...
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Genetic Engineering Today
1,140 wordsToday people go to the super market thinking they are getting good clean healthy products, but instead half of what they are buying has undergone genetic therapy. You pick up a beautiful looking red tomato and you think it has probably been on the vine the longest, but in fact almost all tomatoes found in super markets are picked when they are green and then injected with red dye to make them appear healthy. The milk you buy has come from a cow that has been altered to produce more milk. The big...
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Geographic Information Systems Earths Surface
1,655 wordsGeographic Information Systems Geographic information systems (GIS) technology can be used for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning. For example, a GIS might allow emergency planners to easily calculate emergency response times and effected areas of the ocean during an oil spill based on the spills location. You may ask, what is GIS? In the strictest sense, a GIS is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically r...
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N Pag Million Cubic
2,007 wordsThe earliest remains Hydrology Introduction The earliest remains of dams that archaeologists have unearthed date back to around 5000 A. D. They were constructed as part of a domestic water supply system for the ancient town of Jawa in Jordan. Over the next few millennia, the building of dams for water retention spread throughout the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Southern Asia, China, and Central America. Later, as technologies increased and industrialization took hold in Europe, dam mechanisms...
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Los Angeles South America
2,010 wordsLos Angeles Zoo OBJECTIVE The purpose of this observation was to study the activities and behavior of some selected primates, and to discuss the differences and similarities of these primates. It would have been ideal to examine three primates from each continent, but at the Los Angeles Zoo, the primates there only represented Africa, South America and what the Los Angeles zoo calls Eurasia. For this study I observed three different primates from Africa, two primates from South America, and two ...
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