...Endangered Species The Everglades is a 2 million acre wetland ecosystem that starts in Central Florida, near Orlando, and continues all the way south into the Florida Bay. During Florida’s wet season, Lake Okeechobee overflows and releases water into a slow moving river with saw grass and marsh. They call this a “river of grass”. The Everglades is known worldwide for amazing wildlife. From Manatees, and Crocodiles, to the Florida Panthers, there are also many birds such as the egrets, roseate spoonbills and also wood storks. There are over 350 bird species that can be found in the Florida Everglades. The Everglades is known for its large amount of wading birds, such as roseate spoonbills, egrets, wood storks, white ibises. Some of those birds have become endangered like the Snail Kite, Wood Stork, and the Cape Sable. There are also a variety of reptiles in the wildlife of the everglades. Alligators and crocodiles both live in the everglades and are often mistaken as each other. The American Alligators like deep waters, Unlike the American Crocodile who like to live in the coastal mangroves and the Florida Bay....
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...called the Everglades. According to Are the Everglades Forever? "The Everglades is a wetland ecosystem home to tropical and marshland plant and animal species." The Everglades are a protected national park where tourist usually come to see the animals and to see the wetland. In the Everglades there are a lot of animals such as alligators, fish, birds, turtles, and many more. This wetland also has animals that are not native. Since there are a lot of species in the Everglades that means there is a complicated food chain for survival. Stated in the article Are the Everglades Forever? "Biodiversity a word commonly used to describe the relative number of different species in a ecosystem. Biodiversity is...
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...The Everglades..... a beautiful place home to many creatures from around the world such as snakes, birds, many marine life, crocodiles, and of course gators. The Everglades is a very important place for many reasons. A lot of people who live in Florida rely on everglades for resources. Second of all the Everglades is home to many different species from around the state, country and the world as well. Some of the species who live in the Everglades are endangered so they rely on the Everglades as well for resources so they can reproduce. The third and final reason why humans should care about the Everglades is because of all the wetlands that are in there. Wetlands are for caring and for nurturing, almost like a hospital or a daycare. Most people refer to as the "Waste Lands". The first reason why the Everglade is a very important place to be is because of its resources that it has to offer. To us humans the Everglades is a thankful place to thank. The everglades supplies with many things such as water, food, and beautiful wildlife and...
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...The Value and Importance of the Everglades "Lions, and Tigers, and Bears! Oh my!" Just kidding! There aren't any Lions, Tigers, or Bears in the Florida Everglades. The Florida Everglades is home to many fascinating creatures and plants such as pythons, alligators, fish, insects, and mangrove trees. The Everglades is a really important ecosystem and habitat for these plants and animals. They all work together and help each other out. For one example, the mangroves provide housing for fish, and the fish keep poisonous plants off the mangroves. There are many more reasons why the Everglades is so important and read on to see. Biodiversity plays a huge role in the ecosystems of wetlands such as the Florida Everglades. From the article, "Are the Everglades Forever," it says that "Biodiversity is a good thing. Having many different kinds of plants and animals means that species have different choices for survival....
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...make land good for agriculture by draining the Everglades. The water supply effects the park because there is a short supply of water for animals and people, chemicals from fertilizers of the sugarcane are causing the water to be polluted, and the price it costs to fix it is gigantic. To lead off, the Everglades provides water to almost 7 million people in Florida. In the last ten years, the Everglades has fallen into several droughts. Many animals and people depend on the Everglades’ water as their primary supply of water. In the article, “Can We Fix the Water Supply?” its states, “When a fragile ecosystem like the Everglades undergoes even a small change like the Everglades...
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...Everglades Food Web Diagram The Florida Everglades covers 4,000 square miles from Lake Okeechobee to South Florida bay and is called the River of Grass. Everglades is considered to have sub-tropical climate where it is impacted by annual hazards such as drought, flood and fire. The Florida Everglades’ ecosystem has various bacterial, tropical plants, trees, reptiles, animals, and aquatic life. These various organisms contains the balance of the Everglade ecosystem. Each species plays a pivotal role in maintaining a vigorous striving environment. The annual season for hurricanes in the summer and autumn month helps to maintain the sub-tropical climate Organisms found in the Everglades Plants The Everglades ecosystem is inhibited by wetland...
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...Imagine, you're taking a vacation to the Everglades National Park when a vicious 200 pound Burmese python slithers right next to you! The Everglades National Park is being affected dramatically by burmese pythons,there are changes in animals,people, and ecosystems. To lead off, animals that live in the park for not being preserved as they should be exotic and special birds, mice and ducks that are being quenched by the jaws of a 23 foot snake.For instance,Source 2, paragraph one, states “With no natural predators these eating machines appear to be wiping out huge numbers of possums raccoons and Bobcats as well as many bird species.” Birds are being affected by the Burmese python specifically, so is it really worth...
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...2013 – The Everglades Flood Control and Restoration: A Century of Disaster OUTLINE ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………………………………………………… Before drainage of the Everglades began over a century ago, the wetlands of southern Florida were an interconnected hydrological assortment of lavish freshwater lakes and streams, cypress swamps, secluded estuarine lagoons, freshwater sloughs, tree islands, wet prairies, and mangrove swamps spanning 3.6 million hectares. After a century of intrusion, the daunting task of understanding, fixing, maintaining, and regaining a sustainable, natural Everglades-type ecosystem in South Florida is monumental. The area south of Lake Okeechobee now has a human population of over four million people, with greedy agricultural and urban demands for more water and more space. Therefore, several uphill battles have ensued. The conceptual plans for restoring this ecosystem, currently on record, are all extremely expensive to implement. A more thorough definition of the environmental and societal objectives and measures of success are required. How the ecosystem will respond to the return of a more natural hydrological pattern is uncertain, but needs to be addressed as the expected and desired outcome through measures of performance. The critical level of deterioration of the Everglades has created a crisis-management atmosphere instead of a full spectrum response and future prevention methodology. The political and social aspects of the Everglades restoration...
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...The Consequences of Eliminating Rock Mining in South Florida Carlos Socarras Professor – Karen Nead English-135 December 1, 2008 The reason I chose this topic for my research paper is because I feel that it is critical to help educate you a little on the importance of rock mining in South Florida and the consequences that we will endure without this local resource. Throughout this paper you will see me make reference to Titan Americas Pennsuco facility. This is mostly because I am currently employed by them and have been working in the Pennsuco cement plant for over nineteen years now, so I have managed to learn a lot of its history through time and experience. Another reason is the fact that as a fellow employee the ruling to eliminate rock mining in Florida directly affects me mainly because this decision would put me out of a job. I would first like to begin by giving you a brief history of the Pennsuco land and how Titan America acquired the facility, so that you can have a better understanding of the issues that we are currently experiencing. In the early 1900s, Pennsylvania Sugar Co., which is where the term “Pennsuco” came from was one of several companies that obtained large acreages and planted sugar cane on the drained “muck land” of the Florida Everglades. Operations were good until the Great Depression of the 1930s hit the sugar market. Today the Pennsuco cement plant is located on the former Pennsuco sugar Farms property. (Cement Americas, 2005) ...
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...The purpose of this project is to provide the reader of this paper with a descriptive analysis of an episode of Crime Scene Investigations (C.S.I.). The intent is to show what is provided by the television series of what happens in a crime and what is supposed to happen during a crime scene investigation. The reader should be able to understand during this analysis to what in fact is non-realistic in this television episode and what is reality as determined by what has been researched. This will show what really happens in a crime scene investigations lab. The episode chosen for this review was CSI: Miami, The Golden Parachute. The episode begins with an aircraft taking important people to testify in front of the Security Exchange Commission. The aircraft began to have issues after takeoff and crash landed in the Florida Everglades. Fishermen were located in and around the everglades and witnessed the crash, they were consumed by what just happened and alerted 911. This prompted Horatio and his crime scene investigative team to begin work. There were eight total passengers on board including the pilots. They immediately identified bodies in the water and determined that this was a leve1 two biohazard. There were bodies thrown from the aircraft in the same area and they also found a body five miles down the everglades. The investigations continued throughout. There were things noticed that was clearly polished, questionable and what seemed to be real as part of an investigation...
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...1. Which sentence uses verbs correctly? Choose 1 answer - ANSWER D – A. Angry cats are wanting to be let outside. –WRONG TENSE should be “want” B. The hungry dogs have ate their breakfast. - WRONG TENSE should be “eaten” C. Yesterday, the teacher prepares the assignment. - WRONG TENSE should be “prepared” D. The children are ready to go to school. 2. Which sentence has the correct subject-verb agreement? Choose 1 answer ANSWER A – ignore the stuff between the commas A. The children, hushed by their teacher, try to keep quiet. B. The books, read by the student, is returned to their shelf. INCORRECT – plural “books” doesn’t match singular “is returned” C. The librarian, anxious to find the books, browse the stacks. Singular “librarian” does not match plural “browse” D. The student, bothered by the uproar, request less noise. Singular “student” does not match plural “request” 3. Which sentence has the underlined word spelled correctly? Choose 1 answer ANSWER A – B is spelled correctly but it’s the wrong use. A. The principal sent the student a letter of congratulations. B. The principle ate lunch with the students. INCORRECT – wrong version of word for sentence C. The prinsipal signs the final grade reports. INCORRECT – no ‘s’ D. The princepal earned minimal interest. INCORRECT – no ‘e’ 4. Classify each sentence according to whether it exhibits or does not exhibit parallelism. Select your...
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...Workshop Five Future Development and Sustainability Ayanna Poe PHS 100A Dave Lee Warner Pacific College August 21, 2012 Before taking this class I must say that I was uneducated about a lot of the topics we have covered. I now know more about the conditions of the environment and how our actions do have an impact on the present as well as the future. I never paid attention to my footprints on the environment. I am guilty of being carless and uneducated about the things I do and don’t do that have a direct impact on the environment. Such as eating out almost every night, constantly purchasing new gadgets every time they come out, never buying used clothing etc. Before this class I never gave a second thought to these things. Learning about the clean water act as well as the clean air act was really interesting. I take clean water and air for granted all the time. I am used to going outside and just expecting to breathe clean air as if it’s a right and not a privilege. When I want to brush my teeth or take a shower I don’t think about how my water got clean or where it comes from I just expect it to be there and to be healthy for consumption and use. It amazes me how we take so many of our resources for granted and we just assume that they will always be here for us to use. I couldn’t believe how much resources and energy we use in the United States alone and how much waste we generate. Seeing video of water being so dirty that it catches fire and witnessing...
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...The Effects of Population Density and Noise Paper Your Name PSY460 Date Instructor Name The Effects of Population Density and Noise Paper * Concepts of Territoriality, Privacy, and Personal Space Territoriality refers to a limited district for a person or animal and the tendency to defend an area of territory (Oxford, 1042); whereas personal, or one’ private space indicates the region humans or animals designate as their own. The relationship between the thoughts of territoriality, privacy, and personal personal space to population mass is associated with behavior. For example, Rubenstein (1980) examined changes in population mass and supply patterns, and noted how these changes affects the hostile behavior of the small sunfish. According to Rubenstein, the means by which small sunfish contend for nourishment is swayed by the mass of the inhabitants, the dispersal of victims, and the gender domination position of a person. Studies on territorial rights showed that Increases in prey dispersion reduced the proportion of battles over possessions in both low and high mass populations (Morrell & Koko, 200). Morrell & Koko sought to explain how animals establish territorial ownership, which is viewed as a major determinant of fitness in territorial animals. Some other behavioral characteristics associated with the establishment of territories include: (a) subordinates initiate fights over resources; (b) initiators are unlikely to contest prey in low mass inhabitants;...
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...Teaching Leadership; can it be done? David Ward Everglades University MAN 2435 Thesis When managing a complex entity in any industry, developing strong leaders is one of the most important assets to the longevity and success of that entity. Can this highly complex experience based social skill be passed down to younger generations through education? Developing strong leadership is a common focus in all industries, the argument that teaching the basics of leadership is merely a single step in developing the strong moral and ethical character defined in a good leader. Currently there are many programs in place with the sole intention of training new leaders and improving current leadership skills. However the debate remains, Is leadership a skill, or a trait? Whereas most management educators agree that is both a skill and a behavior, This mutual agreement has only widened the gap in defining whether or not leadership is something that can be taught. Is leadership based upon character, or is it something that can be developed like a skill? Leadership is deeply rooted in management research and development. Many top business schools are reported as such based upon by their publication of leadership coursework. Leading us to the presumption that leadership is widely viewed as an important skill set and our business education institutions are giving the education needed to develop competent leaders. Asking whether or not leadership can be learned is another way of approaching...
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...SAMPLE --- STUDENT WRITING Research Paper When Pets Become Predators What is an owner to do with a pet that has become too aggressive to handle, too expensive to feed or too large to house? This is a question many uneducated exotic pet owner’s face soon after purchasing a juvenile exotic reptile. Unfortunately, for many pet owner’s, the answer is to release the pet into our neighborhoods and parks creating a multitude of problems for homeowner’s, State officials and the environment. Probably the best known pet to become a predator is the Burmese python, also known as the Indian python. Burmese pythons average approximately 13 feet in length, but can grow to over 20 feet. (Indian Python) Their weight may exceed 200 pounds. Most owners begin feeding their juvenile pythons mice, but a snake grows quickly and graduates to rabbits, chickens and eventually pigs. A full grown python requires a cage of at least 8 feet in length. Because a Burmese python has a life expectancy of over 20 years, the potential buyer must carefully evaluate the long term commitment required with this purchase. Another well know pet to predator is the Nile monitor lizard. These lizards average 4 to 6 feet in length, but can soon grow to 7 feet. They are a carnivorous lizard that as a juvenile begins eating crickets, then graduates to gold fish and later to rats and other small animals. When full grown, monitor lizards like the Burmese python, need an enclosure of at least 8 feet, however...
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