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Storm Surge Low Lying
979 wordsHurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are a major hazard in the Tropics. Every year, some 80 occurrences claim, on average, 20 000 lives and cause immense damage to property, natural vegetation, and shipping. A hurricane is a large rotating storm around a centre of very low pressure with values of 950 mb or lower. Most systems have a diameter of about 650 km, less than half that of a mid-latitude depression. Wind speeds often exceed 33 m per second (119 km per hour) and, in the most intense hurrica...
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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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Amount Of Light Fiber Optics
1,073 wordsEverything You Ever Wanted to Know About dB But Were Afraid to Ask Telecommunications systems used electrical signals and copper wire to transmit voice messages long before lasers, lightwave's and fiber optic cable. To describe and measure power levels in electrical systems, telecommunication engineers used the standard unit of decibels to express gain or loss and relative power levels. Meanwhile, scientists working with fiber optic signals were using units of milli watts (mW) to determine the a...
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Prevailing Winds Low Pressure
647 wordsWhy There Are Different Climates In Different Places Why Are There Different Climates Different Places The main factor that determines the climates of any place is its distance from the equator. This is because sun never rises high. Therefore the places close to the equator remains warm. Temperature typically decreases as altitude increases. At high altitudes the air is less dense, and it does not absorb and hold as much heat. On the average, the temperature drops about 3. 5 Fahrenheit for every...
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Seeds That Fell Fell On Rocky Ground Thorn
624 wordsThis parable is about a sower who went out to sow grain. As he scattered the seeds in the field some seeds fell along the path, where the seed was smashed and eaten by the birds. Some of the seeds fell on rocky ground. When the seeds sprouted on the rocky ground they died from lack of moisture. Some of the other seeds fell in thorn bushes. As they grew with the thorn bushes they were choked and killed by the thorn bushes. The other seeds fell in good soil. These seeds grew into plants that had o...
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Effects Of Acid Rain Sulphur Dioxide
868 wordsThe damaging effects of acid rain on society is becoming overwhelmed with great amounts of pollution from cars, factories and an large amounts of garbage. The immense amounts of sulphur dioxide put into the air causes high levels of acid in the atmosphere. When this sulphuric acid is absorbed into moisture in the air, then rain can be harmful to the environment. Acid rain is destroying lots of things in our environment. It is hurting lakes, air and thew rest of our ecosystem. Acid rain is killin...
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Takes Place 1 N
858 wordsAlthough Bryophytes and Pterophytes are both plant divisions with a common ancestor, they have little in common. While Bryophytes (mosses) are generally nonvascular and very short in height, Pterophytes (ferns) are vascular plants that usually grow much taller than mosses. While the dominant generation in mosses is the gametophyte, ferns exhibit the sporophyte generation. The details of their alternations of generation vary as well, although both have diploid and haploid stages. Alteration of ge...
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Miles Per Hour Warm Air
1,621 wordsWeather is the condition of the air that surrounds the earth. Weather affects our lives in many ways; for example, the type of clothing that we wear any given day depends largely on the weather. If it is cold we put on slacks, if it is hot we slip on shorts. The United States has to deal with the wildest weather in the world. Other countries deal with weather, but the USA brings blizzards, + 100 F heat and - 35 F cold, desert dryness, hurricanes and the worlds deadliest tornados. The weather als...
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Craftsn Things February Craftsn Things February 1998 Wax
1,037 words... l want a thinner piece and if you do a large one you will want to use a thicker wick. Since you have already setup you work area and materials, you first have to make a double boiler before starting the melting process. Do not microwave the wax because it can splatter and be very dangerous, and also the color in the wax will fade. Put about an inch of water in the bottom of your saucepan and heat on low. Put your coffee can in the saucepan and add the wax pieces. Once the wax is melted, you ...
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Los Angeles County Santa Ana
1,327 wordsHuman beings are able to adapt to almost any environment, unfortunately sometimes we take advantage of our natural surroundings. We find ourselves amidst a struggle between our lifestyles and nature. Although we affect nature profoundly with our activities, we in turn are shaped by nature's potent forces. Nature can be brutal to humans, but we must remember that it merely is following its course. As a result, we must learn to coexist with it. Fire is a naturally occurring phenomenon which humans...
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Fire Department Water Supply
1,308 words... ions that took place throughout the fire ravaged area. Along the eastern ridge of the fire, many high voltage power lines were burnt which eliminated power to homes in the surrounding communities and also presented complications with the fire department's electrically run hydrant system pumps. The fire companies resorted to using water from local swimming pools to put out some of the encroaching flames instead of using the pumped water from the hydrants. Fatigue, injury, and a feeling of vul...
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Subterranean Termites Damage And Control Part 1
1,769 wordsSubterranean Termites (damage and control) Shripat T. Kamble, professor of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Entomology in Persistence and Bioavailability of Termiticide's to Subterranean Termites investigated termites in the area of Nebraska. The author of the research determined the biology of termites. According to Shripat T. Kamble, termites are ground-inhabiting, social insects that live in colonies. They live in colony or nest that may be located about 18 - 20 feet below the so...
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Waste Disposal Solid Waste
1,485 wordsSolid Waste Part 1 Waste disposal has always been somewhat of an issue for the human society. Our civilization has been generating various forms of waste as long as it exists, starting from the ancient times. At that time, human settlements were quite small and most of the waste consisted of easily degradable organic matter, so it didnt create much concern. However, throughout the course of human development, as our cities grew and the technological progress started producing a variety of waste ...
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Earth Surface Day And Night
1,063 wordsClimate has profound Climate Climate Climate has profound effects on us, and the world in which we live. In turn we as humans, and many other global factors contribute to our climate. Almost everything in our lives somehow impacts or is impacted by climate. We as humans can affect everything, from the food we eat to the air we breathe, including climate. This is through the alteration of the earth? s surface and the introduction of pollutants and chemicals such as carbon dioxide into the atmosph...
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Act Was Passed Cities And Towns
2,367 wordsDuring the Victorian Era there were massive waves of contagious disease. The first was from 1831 to 1833, which included two influenza epidemics and the initial appearance of cholera. The second was from 1836 to 1842, which encompassed major epidemics of influenza, typhus, typhoid and cholera. The first outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Britain was at Sunderland on the Durham coast during the autumn of 1831. From there the disease made its way northward into Scotland and southward toward London. Fr...
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Du Pont High Strength
971 wordsThe History of Kevlar Kevlar is an organic fiber in the aromatic polyamide family. It has unique properties and a chemical composition that is its own, which distinguishes it from other man-made fibers. Kevlar is a combination of high strength, high modulus (resistance to extension), toughness and thermal stability. Kevlar has a wide range of uses. In the 1960 s nylon and polyester opened the door for man-made fibers. They were cutting edge fibers in their time but to achieve maximum break stren...
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Disturbances From The Hurricane Upturned Trees One
367 wordsDuring lab our class took a trip to the nature trail. As soon as we stepped on to the trail we saw disturbance from the hurricane that came through about three years. Throughout our trip we saw the disturbances from the hurricane, such as upturned trees. In the holes of the upturned trees was still water. We were told that in the place of the overturned trees new trees would grow, which is secondary succession. The limbs and trees were left on the floor of the forest to decompose. While on the w...
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Twisted Pair Fiber Optics
873 wordsOutside Outside Plant Outside Plant Outside plant is the network of cables, poles, conduit, feeder cable, distribution cable, terminals, aerial and drop wire, and fiber optics that interconnects COs and connects from the local CO to the home or customer. The local loop or last mile is the link between the CO and the customer. The local loop is mainly made up of twisted-pair copper wire. Twisted-pair cables are classified by the wire gauge and the number of pairs within the sheath. The sizes vary...
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000 Years Ago Ice Crystals
1,799 wordsWoolly Mammoths Remains: Catastrophic Origins? By Sue Bishop Since Ted Holden has repeatedly insisted that the mammoth whose remains were found in Siberia in 1901 was preserved by some great catastrophe as described in Velikovskys books, I decided to research the topic. I found several books on the subject, including the original book written by one of the scientists who actually examined, preserved and transported the mammoth remains from Siberia. Preservation of the mammoth remains was somewha...
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Due To The Fact Hydrogen Bonds
1,126 wordsProperties of Cellulose Cellulose is a complex carbohydrate, or polysaccharide consisting of 3, 000 or more glucose units. The basic structural component of plant cell walls, cellulose comprises about 33 percent of all vegetable matter (90 percent of cotton and 50 percent of wood are cellulose) and is the most abundant of all naturally occurring organic compounds A natural polymer made up from D-glucose (C 6 H 12 O 6) monomer units, cellulose contains glucose units which link together to form lo...
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