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Collapse Of The Aral Sea
768 wordsThe breakup of the Former Soviet Union has forced those now independent states into a state of confusion. Republics that were once one nation now are separate governments. They now must compete for trade alliances, industrial resources, financial resources, and most importantly, agricultural resources. An area of developed concern is the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world, located in Kazakstan and Uzbekistan, but between 1960 and 1990, the Aral Sea dropped into ...
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Thousand Five Hundred Republic Of China
1,767 wordsIn the formative era of Chinese civilization as early as the first millennium b. c. the Chinese thought of the world as all the regions of the heavens, and within the four seas. They called it Tianxia, which literally means under heaven. Because this was a universal term, with an understanding of the inhabited world known to the Chinese at the time, it implicitly meant All Under Heaven. Tianxia was first of the entire physical world, the arena in which human history was acted out (The Chinese Wo...
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Years Of Age Leader Of The Group
1,522 wordsMountain gorillas are the most endangered of the gorilla species. Approximately 600 or so remain. They are massive in size, with a short, thick trunk and broad chest and shoulders. Its eyes are very small in proportion to its other features. Older males develop longer heads, and are twice the size of females. The most severe threat to mountain gorillas is habitat loss. The fertile volcanic soil of the Virunga Mountains is as highly valued as farm land. Conservation programs have been set up in R...
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1 000 Population One Of The Most Important
1,178 wordsNigeria is found near the middle of Africa, its land area is at a total 923, 768 square kilometers, 910, 768 land and 13, 000 water square kilometers. Nigeria is slightly more than twice the size of California. The borders of Nigeria are Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and 853 km of coastal boundaries. The climate in Nigeria varies; it is equatorial in the south, tropical in the center and arid in the northern regions. Nigeria's terrain varies from southern lowlands that merge into central hills a...
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Lake Champlain Square Kilometers
1,879 wordsVermont has been called a piece of America's past. In no other state has natural beauty been so untouched by modern development. In no other state has the small-town atmosphere of more than a century ago been so well preserved. Often chosen as a comfortable second home by city dwellers, Vermont seemingly has escaped the ugly urban sprawl that pollutes so many parts of the nation. The state has long been noted for its hardy, independent people. Their rugged New England character was probably orda...
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Vanishing Forests In Brazil Part 1
2,180 wordsVANISHING FORESTS IN BRAZIL: SLASH, BURN AND GONE INTRODUCTION One of the major issues confronting the world today is the environmental impact of deforestation. For a very long time, people have depended on forests to supply their primary needs food and shelter, for instance and up until the present time, the forests are still considered as an important resource. The earliest deforestation may have been the burning of the forest to create openings for wildlife and later, chiefly as a result of c...
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Groups Of People Humans And Animals
3,980 wordsIntroduction The population of the world today is 6, 112, 911, 145 and progressively growing. Unfortunately, that figure is expected to double by the year 2050. Four-fifths of this population resides in developing countries of the South. Because of extreme levels of fertility, mortality, and new migration, these developing countries are accountable for most of the world population growth. There are many reasons that explain why the numbers are increasing, but the main reason is the way of life f...
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German Workers Party World War Ii
2,034 wordsThe rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal grandfather. After two wives had died Alois marri...
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People Per Square United States Of America
849 wordsMexico, the United Mexico Mexico Mexico, the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is bordered on the north by the United States of America; on the south by Belize and Guatemala; on the east by the United States of America, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Mexico? s borders stretch approximately 1, 958, 201 square kilometers or 756, 066 square miles. That figure includes 5, 363 square kilometers or 2, 071 square miles of outlying islands. F...
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Years Of Age Leader Of The Group
1,536 wordsMountain gorillas are the most endangered of the gorilla species. Approximately 600 or so remain. They are massive in size, with a short, thick trunk and broad chest and shoulders. Its eyes are very small in proportion to its other features. Older males develop longer heads, and are twice the size of females. The most severe threat to mountain gorillas is habitat loss. The fertile volcanic soil of the Virunga Mountains is as highly valued as farm land. Conservation programs have been set up in R...
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North Atlantic Treaty Britain And France
1,728 wordsFifty years ago on April 4, 1949, twelve countries signed the Treaty of Washington and formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. There were a total of sixteen countries that signed this treaty. Those countries were the following: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States. These various groups of countries came together and formed the NATO Alliance. They wanted to help the world maintain peace due ...
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Persons Per Square Square Kilometer
421 wordsOverpopulation is not the necessary and inevitable consequence of high density of population. Tiny Monaco, a principality in southern Europe about half the size of New Yorks Central Park, has a crude density of nearly 20, 000 people per square kilometer (50, 000 people per sq. mi). Mongolia, a sizable state of 1, 565, 000 square kilometers (604, 000 sq. mi. ) between China and Siberian Russia, has 1. 5 persons per square kilometer (4 per sq. mi. ); Iran, only slightly larger, has 37 per square k...
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