GEOG 1F90: Introduction to Human Geography “Home” Submitted by Julia Pippo – 4801098 To be completely honest, I found the film, “Home”, interesting. The facts in the film made me think about the way the world is going, and how people are treating our planet. One of the facts that really caught my attention was that the water cycle is never broken – there is always the same amount of water on Earth. I never really thought about it that way, but as soon as I heard the narrator say that, I thought
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Week Five Summary SCI/256 December2, 2013 Dr.Moseley Week Five Summary I have learn a lot in the past five weeks then I have ever known; l have learn about my environment, the water system were I leave especially about Anacostia River how toxic it is and the city pays less attention once was so lovely river is now filled toxic chemicals and water waste and dumps people can no longer fish there. I learn that pollution is wearing down our ecosystem and it is becoming less and less productive which
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Preeti Grover ENV 1020 Prof. Zarnoch Museum Assignment American Museum of Natural History Field Trip Hall of Biodiversity 1. According to the information in hall, the disruption of ecosystem adversely affects food supplies and water quality and quantity. Damage to ecosystem can cause changes in disease ecology, leading to the emergence of rare and unknown diseases or the resurgence of diseases that were previously controlled. We also lost indicators of the ability of ecosystem
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1. What is the dry adiabatic lapse rate (give a number with units)? The cooling and warming of unsaturated air of 10C every 1000 meters or about 5.5F for every 1000 feet. The rate of change of any meteorological factor with altitude, esp atmospheric temperature, which usually decreases at a rate of 0.6°C per 100 metres (environmental lapse rate). Unsaturated air loses about 1°C per 100 m (dry adiabatic lapse rate), whereas saturated air loses an average 0.5°C per 100 m (saturated adiabatic lapse
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Terms to define Dynamic Equilibrium – this states that the seismic uplift of an area is balanced by the disclosure from that area; as a landscape is lifted slopes can become steeper and bigger. This means more surface area which can create weathered rock and/or soil particles. These rock and/or soil particles are removed through difference forces from the surface and then returned to the sea bed for sedimentation which will eventually uplift and start the processes over. Uniformitarianism
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INTRODUCTION Drought is an extended period when region notes a deficiency in its water supply whether surface or underground water. This occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. Drought has widespread impacts on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region. Drought is easily understood but hard to prevents and depending on the location, crop failures, famine high food processing and becoming increasingly common. Thus drought is a problem that we are already
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Do you live in an area affected by the phenomenon known as a Monsoon? Explain why or why not using ideas and concepts from the chapter. (Points : 5) Monsoons are not affecting eastern Oregon. In monsoons you need a great amount of water to be lifted from the ocean and that water drop on land. Eastern Oregon is more than 400 miles from a water source large as the amount need like the size of ocean. A monsoon pattern is where heating of land and ocean differ. The difference happens in the summer
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The most generic classification is that involving the concept of air masses. The Bergeron classification is the most widely accepted form of air mass classification. Air mass classification involves three letters. The first letter describes its moisture properties, with c used for continental air masses (dry) and m for maritime air masses (moist). The second letter describes the thermal characteristic of its source region: T for tropical, P for polar, A for Arctic or Antarctic, M for monsoon
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To what extent do urban areas create their own climate (40 Marks) An urban area is the region surrounding a city. Jobs are those in a non-agricultural field, making urban areas very developed causing a high density of human structures such as houses, buildings, and transport links. Urban areas contain microclimates which measures the average weather condition in a small area. Due to human activity, temperature in an urban area is a fundamental characteristic, as temperature is relatively higher
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the same time period. The wet season also receives 95% of the annual rainfall. Kano is located at 12 degrees north of the equator and is around 630m above sea level. Temperatures range from 26 degrees to 34 degrees all year round and the annual precipitation is 920 mm of rainfall. This wet dry climate is due to many effects, most of them caused by subtropical and anticyclone and the movement of the ITCZ. In this essay I will assess factors that create Kano’s wet dry climate. In Kano temperatures are
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