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Earth Sciences essays:
Impact of Human overpopulation on Social systems and the environment.
... square kilometers of forest, an area the size of the British Isles, is being lost each year. Tragically, the greatest impact to the world has come through global warming as a direct result of growing population masses. The availability of digital satellite images, which can be ...
Phototropism.
... light. There for, Phototropism is when a plant grows towards a light source. This is caused by a hormone. A hormone is any of various similar substances found in plants and insects that regulate development. The hormone that causes the plant to grow towards the light is called auxin. Auxin makes the ...
This essay is about the Celestial Spectroscopy: making reality fit the myth
... atmosphere of the sun, of those substances which in the spectrum of a flame produce bright lines at the same place." News of his claim spread quickly throughout the scientific world. In England, Bunsen's former student, Henry Enfield Roscoe, wrote to the secretary of the Royal Society, George Stokes ...
Kyoto Accord Should we ratify it?
... the nations of the world work multilaterally to not only address the problem of Global Warming, but also resolve and decipher the crisis that it withholds. The IPCC predicts that during the next century, the average rate of warming will be greater than anything seen in the last 10,000 years. Global ...
Cattle
... of the defining characteristics of the Holstein are their black and white spotted bodys. These cows on average produce more milk than any other breed on cattle. Brown Swiss cattle are originally from Switzerland and are one of the oldest breeds of cattle. They tend to be large, fleshy, and ...
Drought: A Silent Killer.
... the Midwest, Rockies and Northern Plains were 50-85% below normal. This abundant lack of water caused crops and livestock to die and some of these areas became desert. Also during this lack of rainfall, fires begin to spread all over the Northwest and by autumn, 4.1 millions had burned. The ...
Why some soils vary over space and time?
... plant life and as a result different animals will live there. The plant and animal life also greatly influences the type of soil. This is because the O horizon is composed of dead and decaying plant materials and often animal remains. The inorganic materials which the soil is composed of, e.g. the ...
The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906.
... the Richter scale. Its center was just off the coast, around Pacifica. Two of the world's largest tectonic plates, the North American and the Pacific, had lurched past each other at a distance of between nine and 21 feet along the San Andreas Fault . The temblor shook the ground and left a wake of ...
Earth Science: Atmosphere Essay
... and marine organisms. Ozone is much less widespread than normal oxygen. The formation of the ozone layer is a tricky matter. Out of every 10 million molecules, about 2 million are regular oxygen. Another important topic on the atmosphere is atmospheric pressure. Air pressure is defined as the ...
Humans And Fauna In Australia
... the continents, it could be argued that Australia lost some of the most distinctly unique fauna in the world. The popular opinion for the cause of extinction is the 'blitzkrieg' hypothesis, which is held by such researches as Paul Martin in his controversial article "Prehistoric Overkill: The Global ...