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Dry Season Central America
1,976 words... owed on old, large diameter trees. Leaves are pinnately compound, alternate in arrangement and 20 to 30 cm in length. Leaflets are generally opposite in arrangement, oblong in shape and pointed at the tip. On some specimens leaflets may be elliptical with rounded tips. There are 7 to 25 leaflets per leaf and size increases towards the tip. Leaflets are 40 to 80 mm long and 20 to 40 mm wide (Lavin 1996). Flower development corresponds to the beginning of the dry season when trees have most th...
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Kinship In Sudan And Mar Among The Nuer
1,578 wordsKinship in Sudan: But and Mar Among the Nuer The Nuer people are one of more than one hundred ethnic groups in the northeastern African country of Sudan, which stretches stretches southward from Egypt for 2000 kilometres and westward from the Red Sea for 1500 kilometres. The Nuer are the second largest tribe in southern Sudan, numbering over one million people, according to estimates from the 1980 's. Other tribes in the south include the more populous Dinka, the Shilluk, Annual, Acholi and Lotu...
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Costa Rica Rainy Season
549 words/> Costa rica is located in Central America, and it covers an area of about 19, 730 square miles. The capital of Costa Rica is San Jose. Costa Rica borders both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. It is between Nicaragua and Panama. When compared to the United States, it is slightly smaller than West Virginia. Costa Rica's coastline extends to a length of 1, 290 km. Costa Rica's official language is Spanish. Costa Rica's population was about 3, 533, 000 in 1998. By the year 2000 the p...
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Carbon Dioxide Dry Season
3,157 words... "The ants's unless lies in the evolutionary concept of kin selection" (Hoyt 1996). This concept occurs when members of a species work for the survival of relatives - genes by descent from a common ancestor rather than for one's survival of its own offspring (which is called individual selection). This is a very complicated process in which many people have devoted their lives to its study. The gathering of food by the leaf cutting ants is a complex series of interactions and communication wh...
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Dry Season Rwanda Population
563 wordsRwanda, a republic in East central Africa, bounded on the north by Uganda, on the East by Tanzania, on the South by Burundi, and on the West by Lake Kivu and Ziare. Rwanda covers an area of 10, 169 sq. mi. Rwandas flag has 3 vertical stripes of red, yellow, and green with a capitol R in the yellow stripe. 44. 2 % of the population is between the ages of 0 to 14. Only 6 % of Rwanda is urban (live in cities). They produce no oil or steel which are very important resources. Over 93 % of the populat...
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16 Th Century 20 Th Century
2,812 wordsPhilippines Philippines is a country in Southeast Asia. It is an archipelago consisting of some 7, 100 islands and islets lying about 500 miles off the coast. The total land area of the Philippines is 115, 800 square miles. It is bounded by the Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south, and the South China Sea to the west and north. The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16 th century. Manila is th...
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Dry Season Classification System
373 wordsWhat is climatology? How does it differ from weather? Describe the Koppen Climate Classification and its purpose. Climatology is one of the several branches of physical geography, but it differs from weather in several ways. The term climate implies an average, or long term record of weather conditions at a certain region. It conveys a generalization of all the recorded weather observations in a given area. Weather conditions are recorded in specifics for any given moment in time: the temperatur...
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Sri Lanka Dry Season
4,091 wordsContent Gliricidia Septum GLIRICIDIA SEPIU Content History Introduction and Description Common Names Chemical Compounds Toxicity Uses and Efficacy History Gliricidias was first used in Mexico to provide shade for cacao plantations. It is from this use that the Aztecs labeled the tree Madre de Cacao (Mother of cacao). Later, in the 18 th Century, Gliricidias was brought to Sri Lanka to provide shade for coffee plantations. Today, the trees long leafy branches are used to shade vanilla and tea cro...
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