G e o g r a p h y Chapter 9: * 70% of the freshwater goes to the agricultural sector * If lakes dried up, temperature would rise * Lack of rainfall and increased evaporation can lead to drought * Dry soil, dry air, and high winds can cause wildfires * 9 of 10 wildfires are caused by humans, lightning is the largest natural cause Chapter 10: * 70% of the earth is covered in water * Water flows in rivers, it picks up small amounts of mineral salts from the rocks
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What is the difference between freezing rain and sleet? Freezing rain is liquid (super-cooled) that will freeze on contact with objects that are below freezing on the surface. The determining factor between sleet and freezing rain as a precipitation type, is the depth and coldness of the subfreezing layer near the surface. Sleet is usually a transparent or translucent ice ball around .2 inches or less in diameter. When it hits the ground it can bounce. The formation of sleet was discussed
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In the short story "The Rain Came" by Grace Ogot, customs and traditional beliefs leave Oganda having to face death for her people to have rain. Oganda is to be sacrificed in order to end the drought that her people face. She is the daughter of the chief. In fact, she is the only daughter of the chief. Heart-broken, the chief knows he must give up his only daughter for the good of the people he serves. In this story, the chief is a perfect example of what a leader must go through in order
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Global Warming Introduction Global warming can leads to various problems such as the rise of the Earth temperature, rise of water level and more killer storms. Body A. one of the problem is the rise of the earth temperature. 1.Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels would cause global temperatures to rise by trapping excess heat in the earth’s atmosphere. a. Arrhenius (1896) understood that the earth’s climate is heated by a process known as the Greenhouse
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ITT Technical Institute SC1130 Survey of the Sciences Forum: The Enigma of Climate Change The earths average temperature has risen 1.5 degrees in the last century. Scientists predict that the average temperature will rise and additional 0.5 to 8.6 degrees over the next one hundred years. Even the smallest of changes in the earth’s temperature can equate to large issues for the life on earth. The increase in temperature causes different effects in different areas such as, longer droughts
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temperatures begin to cool which causes me to condense into clouds. As the air currents move I begin to collide with others like me who have been condensed into clouds, together we grow until eventually we fall from the upper atmospheric layers as precipitation. I notice that some of us freeze due to the cold temperatures, some of us fall as rain, hail, fog and even sleet. I see the others landing in bodies of water. Some of them fall in the grass and in different areas of the earth. I was lucky I it
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WATER DROPLETS= Water droplets in cloud are tiny, to light to fall, 1000’s must collide to form a heavy enough drop to fall DRIZZLE= Fine water droplets, 0.040-0.5mm Diameter RAIN= Consists of falling water droplets, 0.5-5mm Diameter, larger drops, break into pieces as they fall through the air FREEZING RAIN=When raindrops are close to freezing, strike a cold object near ground, the drops freeze instantly SNOW= Water vapor crystalizes on tiny particles of dust/smoke, forms when air/water
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Describe and explain the characteristics of the British climate (40) The purpose of this essay is to describe, with specific reference to highland and lowland regions, the British climate. also an explanation of how air masses, latitude, continentally, and ocean currents can interact to determine the British climate before reaching a conclusion as to the ultimate determining factor. The climate or average weather conditions in Britain for a protracted period of time can be classified as ‘Temperature
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1. Explain the relationship between continental drift and the formation of the Earth’s Oceans? The relationship between continental drift and the formation of Earth’s Oceans comes from the plate movement that occurred in Earth which is called plate tectonics. All of the landmasses were grouped together into one vast supercontinent called Pangea. Over millions of years the land started to split into many different countries and it also divided Panthalassa, the single great ocean that surrounded the
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Reaction Paper The documentary “China’s Water Challenges” is about the problems on water that China facing now. The problems they had is that they had more water, less water, dirty water and mud water. The main location of this problem is on the Yellow river. When it rains, the flow on the yellow river is turbulent that causes severe floods on the cities beside the river. When it is now raining, the river has less water and more sediments caused by the erosion of the soil. Drought was also
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