Matthew Smith #28 Mrs. Walsh and Mr. Paolina Science 706 28 January 2018 The Skull A tropical cyclone forms over tropical or subtropical waters. According to NOAA's National Ocean Service, “A tropical cyclone is a rotating low-pressure weather system that has organized thunderstorms but no fronts (a boundary separating two air masses of different densities).” Hurricanes can be very devastating when they pass over land. Hurricanes can reach extremely high wind speeds of up to 190 miles per hour
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What if California’s drought continued? Not only the people in California would care, but as a whole, the United States would; California is one of the main sources where food grows. I predict that all the animals from fishes to bears would have to migrate to find a new home because of lack of food and fresh water in the area. As the scientists find a solution to the problem, Californians would try their best to continue to spare the water. Furthermore, water would become more expensive. Due to high
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Environmentalists are said to be one of the main problems that causes the drought in California and they are defending themselves. Environmentalists have a problem with farmers and agriculture. It is point out that environmentalist tried to preserve the federal guideline that limiting water supplies from the north to the south California while farmers said they were restricting important source of water supplies from reaching places that need the water (“Facing Drought, California”). At this point
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California’s drought has brought disappointment to many special water landmarks, one including the San Joaquin River. In the article, “ River Restoration Projects Offers a Sprinkling of Hope”, the author Daniel Weintraub explains why bringing back the San Joaquin River would be a good idea. On the other hand, author Bill McEwen wrote an article called the Fresno Bee claiming the project was a waste of time and money, all in all, declared it was not a good idea. I chose this article because i believe
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There are some similarities between two painting. First of all, the objects in both painting is similar. They both had the huge mountain, a forest, a pool or lake and also the appearance of human. The layout of both painting is also similar. There is a lake in the middle of the forest and the mountain is in the back. In contrast, there are also some differences between 2 painting Looking up the Yosemite Valley and Heart of the Andes. In Heart of the Andes, I think because of the time of a day, the
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I remember sitting on the front porch of my house, watching the line of black inch closer with every passing second. A thin wall of fog was apparent in the distance as the thunder roared, threatening the town with a massive downpour. Slowly raising the camera, I shot another picture; It didn’t look any different from the twenty-something pictures I’ve already taken of the same thing. The clouds swirled overhead, circling in a boiling-like pattern. I could already tell this wasn’t going to be like
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The 110 English settlers that arrived at the mouth of the great Chesapeake Bay in the May of 1607, died because of 3 important reasons: Environment and Geographical causes, Relations with Natives, and Occupations. Most of the English colonists died because of their relations with the neighboring natives, or the Powhatan Indians. According to Document D: “Grain Trade With The Powhatans,” the English gained some grain after trading corn with the Indians, but only after involving “some harshe and
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from 54.8 F° to 58 F° with some fluctuation between. On average, precipitation declined from 11.07” in 1945 to 3.39” in 2013 (figure 4). However, there has been a trend of higher precipitation, just a huge plummet in 2013, as opposed to 2012, where it was 21.48”. There are no records for 2014, however, California as a whole has experienced an intense drought this past year (Lindsey, 2014), which in 1983 saw a huge spike in precipitation, with 38.34”, which indicates a potential flood. The
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What is a place where it can be over 100° during the day, but at night can be below freezing cold? That is the Sahara desert, the biggest desert in the world! The desert is full of fun abiotic factors. Like animals and plants and weather oh my! Do you want to relax with no sound, this is the place to be. Plants Plants can be rare in some parts of the Sahara Desert, but there are a lot of plants. Like the cactus it can contain water and has shallow roots thats why it can survive in the arid
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What would you do if you had 2.2 billion dollars? California has been in a drought for about four years. This means there are citizens and farmers who have less water than they are used to or they do not have water at all. So they are not able to live the life they are used to living. To prevent this, the state should have rules to save the water they do have. California suffered from the drought economically recently. In Source two it is informed that the “drought is expected to cost the states
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