Puerto Rico is an excellent island in the Caribbean Sea, just 100 miles in length and around 40 miles wide. It was one of numerous islands shaped around 185 million years prior when an incredible area movement sank a few sections of the earth and pushed others upward. Puerto Rico is really the highest point of a scope of mountains which has been pushed up from the floor of the Atlantic. The island lies on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, 300 miles south of the Tropic of Cancer and around 1000 miles
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Good afternoon teachers and fellow classmates. Pompeii and Herculaneum once thriving towns at the Bay of Naples buried by Mt Vesuvius encapsulating them for 1,500 years under the volcanic mud, rubble and ash. Left the cities in a remarkable state of preservation however excavations of the sites have created the issue of deterioration due to the lack of protective measures, exposure and correct restoration methods. This has been further aggravated due to the increased amounts of tourism, lack of
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Despite the extreme conditions that dominate hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise and Mid Atlantic Ridge Bythograea thermydron, a eurythermal extremophile first described in 1980, lives in such high abundance that they are used as an indicator for active vent sites. Their approximate 4 year life span is spent at 2.7km below sea level at high pressure, a range of temperatures, low pH, low light intensity and sulphide levels toxic to most organisms. This essay covers the adaptations of B.thermydron
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The 2014 film Pompeii is set in Pompeii and Rome, right before the Vesuvian eruption of 79 AD. Starting with Pliny the Younger’s quote describing the contemporary experience of the eruption, the film draws extensively on both literal and archaeological sources, with great attention to details. For example, the proposal to construct a new aqueduct, better sanitation, bigger bath houses, and a circus show the range of engineering feats and public constructions enjoyed by people in the Roman empire
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Economic and social development of Latin America has something to do with different geographical factors. These include the productivity of lands, health conditions, frequency and intensity of natural disasters, settlement patterns, makeup and spatial distribution of productive activities, colonial experiences. Latin America has considered geography as unchangeable, true it is, but still it does not imply that policies should overlook or better yet ignore this fact.
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Week One Review Questions Student’s Name GLG 101 Due Date Teacher’s NAme Chapter 1: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 3 & 5 3. How do you think the principle of uniformitarianism accounts for occasional catastrophic events such as meteorite impacts, huge volcanic eruptions, or great earthquakes? Uniformitarianism is a theory that states that past events are happening today and will happen in the future. What we do today has an effect on the geologic formation and structure and
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Mr. Wedel, Room E102, 2012-2013 Web Site: Phone Number: Email: Office Hours: https://www.tracy.k12.ca.us/sites/kwedel/Pages/ClassInformation.aspx EARTH SCIENCE SYLLABUS 209-830-3360 ext 2509 kwedel@tusd.net Wednesday 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm or by arrangement Welcome to Earth Science – the study of the world around you. Our topics will include Astronomy (study of outer space), Geology (study of rocks, earthquakes, volcanoes and plate tectonics), Meteorology (study of the atmosphere, climate
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Climate Change Two of the main human causes of climate change are greenhouse gases and land use changes. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere and can remain there for thousands of years. Certain of these gases will block heat from leaving the atmosphere. These gases make the planet warmer and create a thick blanket on the earth. Approximately 35% of all greenhouse gases are generated from electricity production. This is the larges source of these gases. Seventy percent of our electricity
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Which river does NOT begin in the Champaign Urbana area. * Sangamon River CHAPTER 6, 11, 12, 14 * Flood probability is constant over time while risk of future eq is very low right after major eq and then will increase slowly as pressure builds CLIMATE CHANGE Climate- Long term average of daily weather conditions. Extremes * Early Earth = Very Warm * End of Paleozoic = Very Cold * End of Mesozoic = Very Cold * End of Ceonzoic = climate oscillations from very cold to very
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Chapter 1 3. Uniformitarianism has scientifically proven that geological processes have been nearly unchanged from the past. Catastrophic events that once impacted the Earth still have the potential to repeat itself due to the observable geological features and geological processes that still act in the same manner. Since natural events that have been proven to repeat themselves, the tendency for ongoing natural disasters will always be a major concern. 5. Geological processes still maintain
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