What is Volcanic Eruption? A volcano can be simply defined as a rupture or an opening on the crust of a planet like earth. This opening allows hot ash‚ molten rock and gases to blow off from the underground spaces. Volcanoes generally acquire shape of a mountain. Volcanoes are usually found at places where tectonic plates get converged or diverged. But there existence at a particular place depends upon many environmental and geological factors. Volcanoes can also occur at a place because of
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example of similarities from the formation of Gondwanaland is shared banksia species that are found in Australia‚ Southern Africa and India. Also the southern beech is found in Australia‚ New Guinea and South America‚ and there are fossil remains in Antarctica. The African ostrich‚ Australian emu and the South American rhea are very closely related flightless birds. This shows that biological isolation is a major point of the uniqueness of the Australian environment. The Australian environment also
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10. Pluto-Sized Eris Rocks Solar System Discovery of Eris in 2005 by Mike Brown‚ a minor body that is 27 percent bigger than Pluto. Eris had trumped Pluto and become the 9th largest body known to orbit the sun. The finding became the trigger that changed the face of our solar system‚ defining the planets and adding Pluto to a growing family of dwarf planets in 2006 by International Astronomical Union (IAU) 9. T. rex Tissue Dug from Bone the discovery of what appeared to be soft tissues - blood
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There can be many factors for why a civilization might collapse such as environmental change‚ depleting resources from over extracting‚ enemy take over‚ natural disasters‚ and several other factors. All of these factors or just one can make a settlement crumble at the height of its power and slowly or rapidly cease to exist. Similarities between the collapsing of settlements have been observed over time starting with the rising of the civilization due to good circumstances then reaching a point where
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In The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ who is a former physician‚ is the evil figure throughout the classic novel. In Moby Dick‚ by Herman Melville‚ Captain Ahab‚ who is an experienced captain‚ portrays as the evil character also. Both figures from the novels represent an excellent example of evil-natured men who are out to get vengeance on someone or something for the wrongdoing to them. First‚ Chillingworth and Ahab are both trying to seek revenge
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other places have very little water and few plants. Since our earth is very different in each area of the world animals need to adapt to live in certain areas. They adapt by having a layer of fat under its skin which helps keep the animal warm up in antarctica or by having large ears help dissipate excess body heat on hot days in the desert.An animal’s environment consists of many different things. The climate is important. Whether it is hot‚ cold‚ dry‚ or wet will have an effect on all the creatures
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The Evolution of Life This section provides information about the evolution of life on Earth. For reasons of simplicity some important events and life forms were selected for each geological time span. However this should not give the impression that the evolution of life on Earth is or was a sequential event. Many life forms that were not mentioned in this text were very successful and have evolved or in some cases maintained a very successful life strategy. Prokaryotes‚ for example are the most
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In trying to understand language‚ linguists who study semantics have always been concerned with explaining the meaning of words in natural languages such as English. Several problems have surfaced from an examination of the various existing methods used to describe the meaning of these words‚ in particular dictionary definition‚ binary descriptors and referents. Context is also an important consideration when defining meaning. The dictionary definition of a word has been a problem because of its
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capture of certain animals. There are many mineral deposits within the Artic Circle. In Russia: nickel‚ iron The Arctic Tundra Location The Tundra is located in the northern regions of North America‚ Europe‚ Asia‚ as well as a few regions of Antarctica. The Tundra is the second largest vegetation
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continents. The two smaller continents were called laurasia witch was the northern island witch contained of present day north America‚ Europe‚ and Asia. The second island or super continent was called Gondwanaland and it was made up of present day Antarctica‚ Australia‚ and South America. The second point that I am presenting to you is even more evidence that supports the theory of continental drift. My partner Eduard Suess have discovered many things that are overwhelming evidence that go toward
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