What is global warming? Global warming is when the earth heats up (the temperature rises). It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature. This hurts many people, animals, and plants. Many cannot take the change, so they die. What is the greenhouse effect? The greenhouse effect is when the temperature rises because the sun’s heat and light is trapped
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GLG/150 Rosemary Morrison December 21, 2015 2 The Theory of Plate Tectonics Plate tectonics is the theory that the outer rigid layer of the earth the (lithosphere) is divided into a couple of dozen "plates" that move around across the earth's surface relative to each other. The reason they are able to move is that the molten interior of the earth slowly rises toward the surface. As this hot viscous substance rises it moves the plates like pieces of a puzzle across the globe. Much like an
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“Plato does not value experience enough” Discuss (10) Plato was a philosopher and mathematician born in Greece. If someone does not value something, it suggests they do not believe in its worth, importance or usefulness. To begin with, Plato was not an empiricist; someone who believes that knowledge is derived from the experience of their senses. This was due to the fact that Plato believed in A prior knowledge; knowledge gained before experience. Plato believed that when we were born, our
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regular occurrence nowadays. Will there ever be peace on earth? Why is the world we live in such a violent place? In 15 years’ time, I will no longer be young. One change I would like to see taking place is for the world to be more peaceful. Other changes I would be eager to see is a greener environment with more sustainable practices as well as the eradication of poverty. Is World peace an illusion? Or can it be achieved one fine day? There seems to be conflict everywhere. Everybody is fighting
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cluster? 2. Using the ideas discussed in your textbook to expand on the comment that “we are star stuff" 3. Relative to the age of the universe, how old is our solar system? How old is the Earth? 4. Why do astronomers infer that the universe is expanding? 5. When did humans learn that the Earth is not the center of the universe and what evidence supported this revelation of thought? 6. Which of the following correctly describes the meridian in your local sky? 7. What do the following
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other resources, answer each of the following questions in 100 to 200 words. 1. What would you include in a brief summary on the history of the modern environmental movement, from the 1960s to the present? The environmental movement in the modern day in the United States started to take off in the 1960s and 1970 and at first only focused on a few disasters and environmental issues. In today’s society environmentalism changed to become a huge movement. The environment now impacts everything from
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1947 EARTH: THE ABNORMALITY WITHIN Atipol Sukrisadanon As a pile of schoolwork wore me out, I thought I could not enjoy the film Earth my beloved teacher arranged in my graduate class at all. In fact, I watched a short intro of the film before, but it didn’t even interest me. However, at the end of the class, my classmates’ reaction toward the film wiped out my stagnation. I recognized that I had misjudged the film by its very few minutes and I started to watch the film again as I felt I didn’t
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of light= 3x10 km/s No circumpolar stars at Equator Brightest star (not sun)-Alpha Canis Majoris Sidereal of moon relative to stars is 27 ⅓ days. Synodic period relative to sun + cycle 29 ½ days. Earthshine-reflected earthlight visible on the Moon's night side Moon is ¼ diameter of earth. Sun is 109 x size of earth. Jupiter is 11 x size of earth. Alpha Centauri 4.2 ly away. Umbra=total eclipse penumbra=partial Apagee-moon farthest=annular eclipse Eclipse occurs at New & Full bc moon
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Elert Bode’s observations. William wanted the planet to be called Georgium Sidus because of the king George III. But the planet was called Uranus after the Greek god of sky. It takes Uranus 17 hours and 14 minutes to to rotate 1 time and it takes 84 earth years to spin around the sun 1 time. It has got 27 moons and they are divided into three different groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons and nine irregular moons. The moons are named after characters
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7 Mass Extinctions Over 4.6 billion years ago the earth came into existence and life on earth 3.5 billion years ago. Since the inception of life on earth millions of species have existed, yet large percentages of these organisms have gone extinct leaving few if any remains. The geologist, Hutton and Lyell proposed that the earth is old and the earth changes over time. Change in the earth directly correlates with the organisms that exist on earth. When examining the geologic record it shows periods
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