There are three main groups of oils: animal, vegetable and mineral. Great quantities of animal oil come from whales, the enormous creatures of the sea which are the largest remaining animals in the world. To protect the whale from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature has provided it with a thick covering of fat called blubber. When the whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down, either on board ship or on shore. It produces a great quantity of oil which can be made into food for
Words: 793 - Pages: 4
is the business or industry of providing information, accommodation, transportation and other services to tourists. The Caribbean is a multicultural area of the globe of more than seven thousand islands, set in the pristine waters of the Caribbean sea with a backdrop of lush green vegetation and breathtaking sunsets, making it the world’s biggest cruise ship destination (Mather). Businesses within the industry along with the government have an obligation to put forth the best tourist package that
Words: 1258 - Pages: 6
Exit From Crisis And The Post-Crisis Development Of The Baltic States As a result of accessing the European Union (EU) in 2004 the Baltic states benefited from an accession-related boost to income convergence and a credit-driven boom continued. While recognising the rapid growth as well as the increasing level of income, employment opportunities and rising living standarts, it was already in 2006 when the International Monetary Fund expressed concerns about overheating of economies of the Baltic
Words: 989 - Pages: 4
When reading Tool-Using Animals, an online slide show by Rachel VanCott, made me think how animals have found a way to make their life much easier by using tools. For example, chimpanzees using long sticks to get termites, the sea otter uses a stone to open up sea urchins, and the veined octopus using a coconut shell as a refuge. We humans have also used tools to make our lives easier, and as time passes by, those tools become more sophisticated. The problem with us humans is that we depend
Words: 992 - Pages: 4
\Oceanography 1001 (all sections) Study questions for Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Chapter 4 1. Why is quartz one of the most abundant constituents of lithogenous sediments? (Ch. 4, Section “What Is Lithogenous Sediment?”) Quartz is resisitant to abrasion, it can be transported long distances and deposited far from its source area 2. What is the Calcite Compensation Depth (CCD)? (Ch. 4, Section “Distribution of Biogenous Sediment”) The depth at which the amount of calcite (CaCO3)
Words: 374 - Pages: 2
concentrate on clear contrasts between Albania and Italy- one of the countries from central Europe. These countries have different population, food, area. However, one may find their natural environment similar- in both countries there are politics, seas, and other components. When you think about the two countries- Albania and Italy, you may find them completely different at the first glance. During World War II beside Nazis, Albania was also under Italian regime and I might say that there everything
Words: 792 - Pages: 4
conservation status of Sea Turtles. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the global statuses are classified as followed: • Leatherbacks: Vulnerable • Greens: Endangered • Loggerheads: Endangered • Hawksbills: Critically Endangered • Olive Ridleys: Vulnerable • Kemp’s Ridleys: Critically Endangered Sea Turtles are among the list of top endangered species. Of the seven species, six are considered endangered. Among those six species are the Green Sea Turtles. Several
Words: 532 - Pages: 3
Peter the Great By: Sundeep Vaswani Pyotr Alexeevich, or Peter I the Great, was born on May 30, 1672 to Tsar Alexi the First and his second wife Natalya Kryillovna Naryshkina. He started out sharing ruling power with his half-brother Ivan, and gained full power to the throne when he was 24. Peter the Great was a good ruler because he tried to modernize, or westernize, Russia with his government, military and domestic reforms, even though some of these reforms stuck when he died. Peter thought
Words: 905 - Pages: 4
1. A. What country ran the area after WWII? A: Russia occupied most of the countries in Eastern Europe after WWII. B. How do you think the two world wars affected the people of Poland? I think the two world wars affected Poland’s economy because of the war damage, and it lost many of its citizens. 2. A. How do the languages spoken in Poland and the Balkan republics affect the region’s history? The languages spoken there reflect on who ruled the country the most in the past. Polish is
Words: 339 - Pages: 2
Poland empires include the German and Russian/Soviet which overran the country during World War II. One major deficit Poland has is no natural boundary. To the north there is the Baltic Sea. In the Baltic Sea, Poland has three major seaports, Gdynia, Gdansk, and Szczecin. In the east, the border runs along the Bug River which separates the country from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. In the south, there are the tall Tatra Mountains to separate the country from Slovakia and Czech Republic. To the west
Words: 370 - Pages: 2
