Great Salt Lake Ecosystem The Great Salt Lake is the remnant of Lake Bonneville that covered much of Western Utah and parts of Nevada and Idaho during the Pleistocene Era. It is a terminal lake, three and a half to eight times saltier than the oceans, which supports brine shrimp and flies along with algae and bacteria that have adapted specially to this extreme environment. It has three contributing rivers that flow into it, the Bear, Provo/Jordan, and the Weber. There are no fish that can
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Florida Alligators…… Are They Really That Scary????? By: Krista Source: Me with the help of Florida and some alligators My First Time What would you do if you walked into a store and saw three alligators lying on the floor? Well that is exactly what happened to me, and like every other human being, I freaked out at first. At this store you were able to hold an alligator for five dollars. After watching my mom and best friend hold one I thought that I couldn’t miss this opportunity, and
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Species Richness in Lake Victoria Until very recent, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, in East Africa, Lake Victoria, was the home of approximately 400 kinds of cichlids. Cichlids are fishes that are colorful. The species of cichlid that was in Lake Victoria had very different eating habits. Some nibbled on algae; others eat organic material that was dead at the deepest part of the lake; while others ate the insects, shrimp, and all the species of cichlids.
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Perch in Lake Victoria By Introduction Lake Victoria is largest lake in Africa, seventh largest in the world by volume. And second largest freshwater lake in the world. (PRINGLE, 2005) The lake is surrounded by three different country’s Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Figure 1 depicts Lake Victoria and the surrounding countries. All three countries share the lake and its resources, but one of the biggest issues is that the governing laws involving the resources and the lake regulations
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daffodils stretching out over almost everything he could see, "fluttering and dancing in the breeze": I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. In the second stanza the speaker goes into more detail about the daffodils. They reminded him of the Milky Way, because there were so many flowers packed together that they seemed to be
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Great Lakes Art Fair For the second art encounter I attended the 2014 Great Lakes Art Fair in Novi, Michigan. It was a short 1 hour drive for a great experience that I will tell my family about for weeks to come. This art fair reminds me of the Black Swamp festival that is in Bowling Green every year. There was art vendors as far as the eye could see. I enjoyed my time there looking at all different kinds of art, from the more contemporary styles, to classical works of art that looked as if they
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situations in which people could choose to ignore the harm that is being done to the environment, and not care about what the outcomes may be. However, because we as people care, we have implemented many measures to protect our environment. For example in Lake Chad, located between the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, there is a environmental issue of desertification where fertile land becomes similar to that of a desert. The UNHCR and its partners, including the Chad government, are addressing
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Great Lakes: Great Decisions Strategic Management October 13, 2011 Great Lakes Chemical Corporation is a chemical producing corporation located in the United States that produces many different chemical compounds and solutions, including the ever controversial lead additive used in gasoline in some developing nations. The company, which was originally founded as an oil company, eventually acquired several other corporations and extended their oil business into one that handles chemicals such
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The Florida Everglades Tasks 1a. Identify the specific geographic location. The Florida Everglades are located near the southern tip of Florida. This land is a "watershed" that originates near Orlando at the Kissimmee River and flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Everglades are actually a slow moving river that can reach up to 60 miles wide and 100 miles long, yet is only 6 in. deep in some areas. The name "Everglades" was originally penned by author Marjorie Stoneman Douglas in 1947 when
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A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway Book Summary Next About A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms begins in the Alps around the frontier between Italy and present-day Slovenia. Allied with Britain, France, and Russia against the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany, Italy is responsible for preventing the Austro-Hungarian forces from assisting the Germans on the war's western front, and Russia in the east. The novel's narrator and protagonist is eventually identified as Lieutenant Frederic Henry
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