Tropical Rainforest Hassan Gordon American Intercontinental University The Tropical Rainforest is a forest occurring in tropical areas of heavy rainfall. In the tropical rainforest most trees in the rainforest have wide buttress roots. Deforestation is a major problem caused by humans in the tropical rainforest. The government has cleared large areas of the Amazon Rainforest and encouraged people to move there. About 80% of the rainforests nutrients comes from trees and plants. Tropical
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Choose either the Philippines or California and explain why it is considered a disaster hotspot. (15 marks) A disaster hotspot is a place where they not only have a high vulnerability, but also a number of different hazards: hydro-meteorological and geophysical. The Philippines is vulnerable to disasters because they’re a lower middle income country, with majority of the people living in poor conditions/poverty and near the coast. This implies that they lack sufficient infrastructure to protect
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costs include enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world’s tropical rain forests. 3. They are cutting down rain forests in Brazil because there is not enough land for crops and grazing land. 4. The story with resources used to grow meat is an estimated 30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land is directly
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the BI is the North Atlantic drift. This comes from the Caribbean, and carries warm tropical air towards the BI and results in the South-Westerly prevailing winds. Although beneficial is some ways, this unstable air around the Caribbean area, due to warm temperatures causing air to rise rapidly and air replacing this at the earth’s surface, can also be transported up to the BI. These hurricanes and strong tropical storms will never fully impact the BI as it does further south due the air masses cool
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considered as a forest. The trees in the forest are divided into two which are overstory or canopy, and the other one is the understory such as moss layer, moss layer and shrub layer. Generally, there are many types of forests such as Tropical Rainforests, Sub-tropical forest, Mediterranean Forests, Temperate Forests, Coniferous Forest, Montane Forests, and Plantation Forest. These type of forests are classified based on the
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Sometimes we as humans have clashes with the earth. But in the end the earth always finds a way to disturb the human civilization . The people of Haiti have been the victims of many attacks by the earth has to throw at the people of Haiti. The island of Haiti have been hit with the waves from the Caribbean sea and the North Atlantic ocean have both pounded the sides of Haiti like balls of fist. The skys look deadly because of the grey dullness that it suspends from it. We as human beings have been
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The precipitation in the Andes Mountains change but not severely between two places. There is a lot of rainfall all year around in Columbia. However, in Ecuador, there is the desert climate with very little rain. Peru is also like Ecuador. In Chile, there are two different climates but both have sufficient rainfall all year around. In the summer in the Andes, rainfall averages less than 8 inches. In the winter, it averages less than 4 inches in the biomes. The temperatures of the biomes around the
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Do I Need an Insurance Attorney If My Residential Property Sustains Damage? Fire. Wind. Hail. Flood. All of these natural elements cause billions of dollars in damage every year to residential properties. Texas Panhandle residents are well acquainted with this kind of damage. They see some of the highest wind speeds in the country as well as massive thunderstorms that dump hail everywhere. Wild fires are also a concern with the dry conditions often found in this part of Texas. If your residential
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Compare and Contrast Essay The Atlantic deep sea and an old growth forest are a complete opposite, right? No, the deep sea and an old growth forest are almost the same. There are many reasons why the PNW old growth and the deep sea are similar and different. Both the deep sea and the PNW old growth forests are very interesting places. One has no air, and the other one is only air. As Wade Davis once said, “A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. Every language
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The Prologue definitely gave us a great introduction to the characters, letting the reader to get to know them before hand and it also gave us the story of how hurricane Katrina started and the damaged it caused to the affected cities. In the beginning we meet Leo and Michele, the young hip couple who are up to date with technology and they knew exactly how strong Katrina was coming, they decide in advance that they should evacuate the city. Even though they were a bit skeptical if the storm will
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