Hurricane vs. Tornado Two devastating and deadly natural disasters are the hurricane and the tornado which both cause heavy amounts of damage and are uncontrollable. There are many similarities in how hurricanes and tornadoes are formed. Although they are distinct disasters, hurricanes, and tornadoes pose similar threats to resources because of high winds which can destroy properties and affect the economy along with people’s lives. Both the hurricane, and the tornado are rated on a category scale
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you have 13 minutes to hide from a tornado but not a hurricane? Tornadoes and hurricanes have many differences and similarities. These are the horrible storms that can be found in the US. During a tornado and a hurricane, you must find shelter because of their horrifying appearances, sizes, and you never know exactly where they are going to be. Although you cant hide from a hurricane, you can hide from a tornado. You actually have time to hide from a tornado. According to Source 4, you also have
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I’m going to ask you a question witch is more dangerous a hurricane or a tornado. I’m going to give you information in how to answer this question. Hopefully it actually helps you answer the question. Well now to get into this complicated stuff. (According to Spencer Adkins) a hurricane is more powerful than a dumb tornado. Also according to him hurricanes kill more people. And are more dangerous because they are usually near the ocean. Witch can cause a storm surge that is kind of like a Tsunami
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Thesis: Hurricanes and tornadoes are both dangerous systems that have potential to cause destruction I. Background A. Hurricanes 1. Different names B. Tornadoes 1. Tornado alley 2. Tornado drills II. Similarities A. Hurricanes 1. Wind 2. Categorized 3. Rain B. Tornadoes 1. Wind 2. Categorized 3. Rain III. Differences A. Tornadoes 1. Form on water 2. Named 3. Predicted early B. Hurricanes 1. Form on land
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Study Guide: Final Exam Concentrate your studies in the following areas. Questions for the Final Exam will come principally from this material. Lutgens and Tarbuck Textbook: Earthquakes and Structures (Chapter 6) * Know the definition of an earthquake (pg. 190). * Know the difference between the focus and epicenter of an earthquake. Which is located at the source of the earthquake? Which is located on the surface of the earth directly above the source? * Understand the concept
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National Weather Service characterized as not only historic, but biblical. That turns out to be a pretty good characterization of a 100-year event. They’re big, we know them when we see them, and we remember them: Hurricane Katrina in 2005; Super Storm Sandy in 2012; the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma in 2013; the entire wildfire summer of 2012. And if one of them takes your loved ones, your home, or your possessions, it doesn’t really matter if it makes the record books. 26
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Individual Expertise vs. Collective Wisdom To quote James Surowiecki’s book, The Wisdom of Crowds, “Groups do not need to be dominated by exceptionally intelligent people in order to be smart.”(Surowiecki xiii) Surowiecki’s claim offers the argument that when a crowd consists of diverse, independent, decentralized individuals, their aggregated responses will be more accurate than even the predictions of experts. Although I find myself agreeing with Surowiecki’s findings, I am now of the two
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Study Guide: Final Exam Concentrate your studies in the following areas. Questions for the Final Exam will come principally from this material. Lutgens and Tarbuck Textbook: Earthquakes and Structures (Chapter 6) * Know the definition of an earthquake (pg. 190). --ground shaking caused by the sudden and rapid movement of one block of rock slipping past another along fractures in Earth’s crust called faults * Know the difference between the focus and epicenter of an earthquake. Which
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Question# 1 The geocentric view of the universe was long since developed in ancient Greece by an astronomer named Claudius Ptolemy (AD 90- 168). Ptolemy believed that the sun, stars and other planets revolved around the earth. The idea of “Geocentric” means everything revolves around Earth. It wasn’t long until Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), an astronomer from Poland came up with a new theory that the solar system actually revolved around the sun. He invented the idea of a solar system. Revolutions
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Running head: Computer Systems Architectures Computer Systems Architectures Kaplan University Abstract Computer architecture is a set of rules that say how software and hardware interact to create a network or platform. In other words computer architecture is the design of the network base on the needs of the user, the system if it is there or needs to be built, and the technology that needs to go into the project. System design is all how all the hardware is set up while the instruction
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