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Book Encyclopedia Volume World Book Encyclopedia Volume Map
856 wordsCartography is described by Webster's as the art of making maps, but how is it done? A cartographer doesn't just sit down and draw a map free hand. He has to have techniques and equipment to do the job right and accurately. Maps can be made in three different ways: cylindrical projection, conic projection, and azimuthal projection. These different ways vary the quality and the accuracy of the map. No matter how a map is made it is going to have geographic grids, which help us find and describe l...
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North And South Number Of Days
1,082 wordsWhat are the dimensions of the Great Pyramid? The Great Pyramid is composed of four triangular sides and a square base. It covered an area of 13 acres. The original height of the Great Pyramid was 485 feet, but due to erosion its height declined to 450 feet. Each side of the square base is 755. 5 feet in length. The angle of the pyramid is 51 degrees, 51 minutes, Now the Great Pyramid is built on a perfect level ground. Its level is so exact that it varies less that 1 / 2 inches over the 13 acre...
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Spindle Fibers Opposite Sides
534 wordsMitosis is the process of nuclear division in a living cell by which the chromosomes are exactly replicated, the two parts being separated are given to the daughter nuclei. In this process the two daughter cells receive chromosomes that are alike in composition and equal in the number of chromosomes as the parent cell. Mitosis consists of four main stages. Mitotic division occurs in somatic (body) cells. The stages are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. In interphase the cell seems to...
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Jumping Frog Connecticut Yankee
660 wordsSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. Shortly after the death of his father in 1847, Samuel ended his brief period of schooling to become a printer's apprentice. Between 1853 and 1857 Clemens worked as a journeyman printer in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Muscatine and Keokuk, Iowa, and in Cincinnati. A series of sketches, "The Snodgrass Letters, " signed with the pseudonym Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, were published in the Keokuk Post in 1856 and 1857. He took a downstream...
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Prevailing Winds Low Pressure
647 wordsWhy There Are Different Climates In Different Places Why Are There Different Climates Different Places The main factor that determines the climates of any place is its distance from the equator. This is because sun never rises high. Therefore the places close to the equator remains warm. Temperature typically decreases as altitude increases. At high altitudes the air is less dense, and it does not absorb and hold as much heat. On the average, the temperature drops about 3. 5 Fahrenheit for every...
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Naturally Occurring Full Moon
1,641 wordsA rainbow is one of our atmospheres most exquisite and marvelous creations; "one of the most spectacular light shows observed on earth" (Ahrens, 1998). When a person views a rainbow, they are getting a personal light show that no other person can see as they do. Humphreys points out that: "Since the rainbow is a special distribution of colors (produced in a particular way) with reference to a definite point - the eye of the observer - and as no single distribution can be the same for two separat...
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Important To Note Amount Of Energy
1,728 wordsThere are nine planets in our solar system and we have visited all of these but one. Even though Pluto is the smallest and furthest planet from the sun, it is no way inferior to the other planets. It in fact is possibly one of the most unique bodies in the solar system. There is much that we do not know about this tiny world and its equally unique moon, Charon. For this reason we are proposing to send a flyby mission to the Pluto-Charon system as soon as possible. Pluto was discovered on Februar...
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Storm Surge Global Warming
1,077 wordsHurricane Trends In the past year alone the severity and the number of hurricanes have increased dramatically. In decades earlier you might have one killer hurricane, but with the advent of nineties, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Frances, Gloria, Ivan and the most recent one Jeanne have changed the landscape of the eastern seacoast to the point where people who have lived there for decades, now have a hard time recognizing their neighborhoods. Hurricane Gloria actually reached as far north as Connect...
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Circumpolar Constellations Which Never Set Constellations Which Never Set Scorpius
614 wordsConstellations are groupings of the brighter visible stars in the night sky. Many of these groupings are based on imaginary figures that are seen on the inner surface of a huge sphere surrounding the earth. They divide the celestial sphere into 88 constellations, 47 of which date from ancient times and were listed by the astronomer Ptolemy. The boundaries are often complex. But all segments of the boundaries lie ease-west and north-south on the celestial sphere. Constellations are used today to ...
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Miles Per Hour Large Amount
1,472 wordsDangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes Floods and hurricanes have been effecting the lives of people around the world for years. This research paper is going to state some of the worst floods and hurricanes, and how future ones can be controlled. A flood is an overflow of water on dry land. The two types of floods are coastal and river floods. Coastal floods are the first topic in this research paper. A coastal flood is the flooding of beaches and surrounding areas; including bar spit...
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899 wordsAny Desert Biome DESERT BIOME Any barren region that supports very little life may be called a desert. The cold expanses of Antarctica, extreme northern Asia, and Greenland are therefore true, but cold, deserts. Most commonly, however, the term desert is used for regions that are barren because they are arid, or dry. Arid deserts receive little precipitation and are characterized by specialized plants that tolerate drought conditions and salty soils, and by distinctive land features. Most desert...
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Tropical Storms Water Vapor
818 wordsIn this Hurricanes Hurricanes In this essay I am going to be talking about hurricanes. I am going to tell you how they form, the location, the size and force of hurricanes, the damage they do and also about the air masses and fronts. I will also tell you some simple information that many people don t know about, this will include things like how many hurricanes develop every year and what to expect when a hurricane hits also which area will get hit the hardest by the hurricane. Location Hurrican...
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Indian Ocean Persian Gulf
1,180 wordsIndian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water in the world, covering about 20 % of the Earths water surface. It is bounded on the north by southern Asia; on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by Antarctica. It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the 20 deg east meridian south of Africa, and from the Pacific by the 147 deg east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Oc...
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Earths Magnetic Magnetic Field
1,384 wordsINTRODUCTION: The magnetic south and north poles of the earth create magnetic field lines in which these bacteria travel. These bacteria were found to contain iron, which is comparable to ferromagnet's or magnetite produced synthetically. This iron is found to line up to the magnetic field lines similar to how a compass works. Many of the principles of magnetism can be explained by observing these bacteria. NARRATIVE: The physical principles behind magnetic bacteria rely on the earths magnetic f...
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Spindle Fibers Daughter Cells
451 wordsThe Process of Mitosis Mitosis The Process of Mitosis is the term used to describe cell division for replication. The product at the end of mitosis is two daughter cells both genetically identical to the original (parent) cell. This process is used for growth and repair within an organism and also for asexual reproduction. There are five main stages to mitosis, called Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase. Although the process has been divided up into these stages the process o...
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Nuclear Membrane Daughter Cells
471 wordsMitosis evolved in complex plants and animals for growth and repair. Mitosis, the division of a cell resulting in two identical daughter cells, prolongs an organism s life by replacing old, dead, and damaged cells. In complex animals and plants, mitosis occurs everywhere, except sex cells. Meiosis evolved in complex plants and animals to increase variation in offspring and to maintain the number of chromosomes from generation to generation. Meiosis occurs in the sex cells of organisms, specifica...
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Educational System Tax System
341 wordsTo best understand Norway one must study its geography, tax system and its educational system. To best understand Norway one must study its geography. Norway covers a area of 125, 017 square miles. Nearly two-thirds of Norway is covered in mountains and there are more than 160, 000 lakes and islands from glaciers that were once there. For instance, if the forms could be straitened out it is believed that they would reach halfway around the equator. At the north cape (71 degrees above the equator...
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Southern United States El Nino
2,315 wordsEl Nino has been a reoccurring phenomenon for centuries. Man has only started to realize how much of the worlds weather is effected by it. The term El Nino refers to an irregular warming of the seas surface. During the last 40 years there have been 10 significant El Nino occurrences. Most affecting the coast of South America. Water temperatures increase along the coast as far as the Galapagos islands. Weak events will raise the water temperature 2 to 4 degrees Celsius and will have minor impact ...
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Planet From The Sun Outer Planets
2,417 wordsThe Solar System consists of the Sun, the nine planets and their satellites; the comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust and gas. It is composed of two systems, the inner solar system and the outer solar system. The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The outer solar system contains Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The inner planets are relatively small and made primarily of rock and iron. The asteroids orbit the sun in a belt beyond the...
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Factors That Affect Physical Geography
698 wordsThere are several factors that influence the growth and distribution of a particular regions primary industries. These primary industries, are necessary for an economy to grow. Without a primary industry, which could also be called natural resources, secondary, tertiary and quaternary industries would struggle in a country (excluding Japan etc. ). These factors also affect where people live. If you were at a warm place, near the coast, it is a lot more populated, than interior America. This popu...
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