Three years ago, I moved to California from the state of Washington. I soon learned an extreme drought gripped California. This idea seemed unfathomable to me at the time. For the past ten years, I lived in a place where water was readily available due to an ample supply of water from the local aquifer. Where I lived, people always watered their yards and could take long showers without shame. In California, the opposite was true; along with avoiding watering yards and taking short showers, crops
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Global Warming “Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.” Former Vice President, Al Gore, has continued his ongoing work as an environmental activist even after
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Earth as a planet Rotation: Provides day & night. Turning of Earth on its axis. 1000 mph at equator. Coriolis: Causes winds to be turned or deflected from their path. Deflection to right in N. hemi. Revolution: Motion of earth along path. Creates years because it takes 365 days to make one. Inclination: The tilt of the earth’s axis. Parallelism: Tendency of earth to always stay parallel and not transform its orbit. Solstices: summer/winter june 21/22 december 21/22 when the sun position
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The film “An Inconvenient Truth” is a documentary movie that teaches us about what are the cause and effects of global warming. A man who is very passionate when it comes to climate change, Al Gore, discusses the present and future effects of global warming that would probably be the key to end our natures’ crisis. I was totally impressed in the film because it gives me a broader knowledge and deeper understanding about global warming. It shows the basic process of global warming where the greenhouse
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1) Which of the six colors of the rainbow is refracted the greatest? Out of the 7 colors of the rainbow, Violet is refracted the greatest. 2) What is a mirage and why does it always disappear as the observer gets closer? A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. Mirages appear at very low viewing angles, when you are far away. As you approach, the viewing angle increases and the mirage disappears
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nature. This is known as the water cycle. Water on earth evaporates into the atmosphere from the heat of the sun and from rain and snow. Air currents move that atmospheric water, creating clouds, which move around the globe and create precipitation. "When precipitation falls over the land surface, it follows various routes. Some of it evaporates, returning to the atmosphere, and some seeps into the ground (as soil moisture or groundwater). . . . The rest of the water runs off into rivers and streams
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Once upon a time, the people of North America all experienced the most peculiar July afternoon. It had started off a normal enough day: with wives drinking coffee and husbands reading newspapers; young children eating cereal and watching morning cartoons, while teenagers still sleeping in warm beds, with the stale smells of the previous night's party hanging in the air. All was normal and in order and as was to be expected. In the Midwest a farmer looked across his fields, with delight and anticipation
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Samantha leupold AC0443329 Assignment 1 SC260 Ecology 1. Describe global patterns of atmospheric heating and circulation. What mechanisms produce high precipitation in the tropics? What mechanisms produce high precipitation at temperate latitudes? What mechanisms produce low precipitation in the tropics? 2. Use what you know about atmospheric circulation and seasonal changes in the sun’s orientation to earth to explain the highly seasonal rainfall in the tropical dry forest and tropical
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Thunderstorms—Up (too) Close and Personal Submitted by Nicole Cordeiro El Centro College GEOL 1447, Section 51426, Fall 2013 Article Summary of Thunderstorms—Up (too) Close and Personal "It is intuitively obvious that thunderstorms are laden with a myriad of unacceptable environmental hazards to aviation”. While this may sound like fairly common knowledge, many are unaware of the hazards that thunderstorms present while flying. For instance, how often have you
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Heating of the earth exterior and atmosphere and influences patterns of precipitation the sun heats the air at the equator causing it to expand and rise. This warm moist air cools as it rises. Since cool air holds less water vapor than warm air the water carried by the rising air mass condenses and forms clouds which produce the heavy rain fall associated with the tropical environment. Eventually this equatorial air mass ceases to rise and spreads north and south. The high altitude air is dry since
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