1. What is the dry adiabatic lapse rate (give a number with units)? The cooling and warming of unsaturated air of 10C every 1000 meters or about 5.5F for every 1000 feet. The rate of change of any meteorological factor with altitude, esp atmospheric temperature, which usually decreases at a rate of 0.6°C per 100 metres (environmental lapse rate). Unsaturated air loses about 1°C per 100 m (dry adiabatic lapse rate), whereas saturated air loses an average 0.5°C per 100 m (saturated adiabatic lapse
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Simas Butkus E&P STARBUCKS Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world with lots of stores all around the world and also amazing profits. In this short writing assignment I will try to evaluate this brands philanthropic activity and distinguish strategic philanthropy examples from not so strategic ones. First of all, I would like to mention few strategic philanthropy examples, which were mentioned in the book: * “Since 1992 we have been working with CARE International
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Having been stationed in several locations with the Army, I have faced many natural and technological threats, but ones I face in my daily life and job today are hurricanes and terrorist threats. When I am home, I am stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where hurricanes threaten the coast and inland areas each year. While I am deployed here to Afghanistan, I face terrorist threats every day. Hurricanes can become very strong when the conditions are right, especially in the warm Atlantic
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Literature review Katha kartik in her article ‘Climate change and migration: a case study from rural Bangladesh’ stated that in costal Bangladesh, environmental threats like cyclone, raises sea level etc are damaging shelter, affecting livelihoods, decreasing the amount of safe water available and creating threat to life. All aspects effort as motivation towards migration, forcing people to go in search of safer environments that can offer them reliable livelihoods, and household security (Black
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Asmita Patel Organic Chem 211 Professor Stoneking Acai Berry Research Paper 06/07/13 Organic Acai Berries: Are They Really Just a Fruit? Acai berries have been around for many generations. They recently became popular a few years back because many people were using them as a weight loss supplements. There were many ads and commercials going around talking about how these berries are a great way to loose weight. Because of this particular media, I became interested in them. I was looking for
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Deforestation of Tropical Rainforests Gabriel Corbeil ENV/GEO 120 March 20, 2015 Introduction: Tropical rainforests represent an important percentage of the globes biodiversity. This ecosystem is estimated to house 50% of all plant, insect and animal life. Covering less than 7% of Earth’s surface, it nonetheless is attributed with producing 20% of our oxygen supply. This unique biome arcs like a green arrow along the equatorial line. Its primary locations are South America, Central Africa and South-East
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Environmental science – U1L8 Most rain forests are located near the equator. Rain forests have a tropical wet climate and are quite humid all the time. The yearly rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year. Tropical rainforests produce almost half of the oxygen on earth. Scientists say that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests. Rainforests only cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface. The rain forest is home to the greatest biodiversity
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A biome is a group of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms. In Miller and Levine Biology, 10 biomes are discussed. They are the Tropical Rain Forest, Tropical Dry Forest, Tropical Grassland, the Desert, Temperate Grassland, Temperate Woodland, Temperate Forest, Northwestern Coniferous Forest, Boreal Forest, and the Tundra. They all have a vast amount of differences between all of the biomes, and they will be discussed. Although not discussed in the book, the taiga is the biggest
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ocean, like a wave going back in to the ocean. A rip current can be hazardous for swimmers because the can move very quickly and it is easy for a swimmer to get caught in one and be stuck under water before drowning. 10. The fuel that powers tropical cyclones and extratropical cyclones are very high sea surface temperatures, moisture in the surrounding air, and the coriolis effect. CRITICAL THINKING 6. A undeveloped barrier island is constantly changing because it is constantly reacting
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New Orleans was not prepared at all for really any major hurricane. They had done a practice hurricane the season before hurricane Katrina and it was only a category 3 hurricane. That hurricane did massive amounts of damage and had over 60,000 people dead. The city officials all got together and viewed the information and even discussed it, but never did anything about it. One guy from the video said something on how New Orleans had dodged bullets in previous years on other big hurricanes
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