flowing air is called wind. The winds in the equatorial weather cells blow towards the equator. Winds are deflected relative to the earth’s spinning surface in phenomenon known as the Coriolis Effect. The winds flowing towards the equator from both hemispheres receive a westerly
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Waves‚ Currents‚ and Tides By Ben Houghton 1/28/09 My paper will focus on waves‚ currents‚ and tides. Our coast is affected greatly by these three things. My paper will explain how the waves‚ currents‚ and tides affect the people and environment of the coastal plain. Waves are a very powerful part of nature. They come in all sizes and they can be shaped many different ways. There are many parts to a wave. There is the crest‚ which is the highest point of the wave. The trough is the lowest point
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Treason (d) Absolute rule 4. By whom was the ’social contract’ written? (a) Voltaire (b) Rousseau (c) Adam Smith (d) Gorky 5. In which one of the following groups of Hemisphere India is located? (a) Eastern and Western Hemisphere (b) Northern and Southern Hemisphere (c) Eastern and Northern Hemisphere (d) Land and Water Hemisphere 6. Which one of the following features is related to the lower course of the river? (a) Delta (b) Meander (c) Ox-bow Lake (d) Gorge 7. How many member countries
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major disasters being Tropical Cyclones and Droughts. A cyclone is a large-scale‚ atmospheric wind and pressure system characterized by low pressure at it’s centre and by circulating motion‚ counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. An example of a tropical cyclone is Australia’s deadliest one yet which occurred on the 4th of March 1899 when a cyclone hit a pearling fleet in Bathurst Bay and caused a massive storm surge accounting for 307 known fatalities
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and the deficit in language production as Broca’s aphasia. Another prominent name in this field was Roger W. Sperry who won a Nobel prize in 1981 for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres. The brain is divided into two hemispheres‚ the left and right‚ connected in the middle by a bridge known as the corpus callosum. People who suffered from epilepsy would sometimes have their corpus collosum severed
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Why do we have seasons and how do they affect my life? We have seasons because the earth is tilted on its axis‚ as it makes its yearly journey around the sun. The Earth’s axis is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees. This means that the earth is always ‘pointing’ to one side as it goes around the sun. So‚ sometimes the sun is in the direction that the earth is pointing‚ but not at other times. The varying amount of sunlight around the earth‚ during the year‚ creates the seasons. We have hot
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The two contain an "eye" which is the center of the destruction. They are very violent storms and produce intense low pressures. This is hard to believe but both tornadoes and hurricanes rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere and rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. There are a ton of differences between tornadoes and hurricanes. One is that tornadoes form on land and hurricanes develop over warm‚ tropical waters. A tornado only lasts a few minutes while a hurricane can last
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and the nights are shortest‚ with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate‚ culture‚ and tradition‚ but when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere‚ and vice versa. School breaks Schools and universities typically have a summer break to take advantage of the warmer weather and longer days. In all countries‚ children are out of school during this time of year for summer
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Differences between Cyclone and Tornado Cyclone and Tornado are two furies of nature that show differences between them in terms of their nature and phenomenon. (i) One of the main differences between cyclone and tornado is that cyclone develops over sheets of water. On the other hand tornado develops over land. (ii) Both of them differ in terms of their duration. Cyclone lasts for longer duration when compared to tornado. It is quite true that a tornado can last for only a few minutes‚ but
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Application of "Whole Brain Teaching" in the Classroom Situation. Introduction we really wonder for our tiresome effort to teach our students when have almost zero result at hand. On the other hand just a click of action gives a good result. As a good teacher‚ we always try to make our students understand the problems and cope up with the information of the prescribed curriculum of their standard. We use different teaching strategies‚ tools and teaching materials yet we do not get good result
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