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Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall
888 wordsThe Earth is often referred to as the blue planet since it is seventy-one percent oceans and marginal seas with only twenty-nine percent comprising the continents and islands. There are three principal topographic features of the planets ocean floor: continental margin, ocean basin floor and mid-ocean ridge. The continental margin is the most extensive feature of the ocean floor divided into two kinds: a. ) the active continental margins which are primarily located around the Pacific Ocean with ...
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Sir Francis Drake Queen Elizabeth
796 wordsAuthor John Guy Drake, a 16 th Century Explorer Ticktock Publishing- 1997 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE Sir Francis Drake is known for England's defeat of the Spanish Armada. He was a sea dog and he sailed around the world. Drake was actually the first one to sail around the world since Magellan died in his journey. Drake was a sea dog during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first. And as everyone knows this is a good time to be a sea dog because the queen highly supported them. She gave him money and ships...
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