should also consider replacing old wood stoves with EPA-certified models. Plant deciduous trees in locations around your home to provide shade in the summer‚ but to allow light in the winter. Buy green electricity-produced by low-or even zero-pollution facilities. Connect your outdoor lights to a timer or use solar lighting. Wash clothes with warm or cold water instead of hot. Lower the thermostat on your water heater to 120F. Use low-VOC or water-based paints‚ stains‚ finishes‚ and paint strippers
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AP World History Study Guide General Terms to Study: Unit 1: history concepts/Prehistory Prehistory - Refers to the long period of time before people invented systems of writing. The Five Themes of Geography - Location refers to the relative or absolute location of places. Relative location describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places. Absolute location provides a definite reference to locate a place. The reference can be latitude and longitude‚ a street
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The Multiple Choice Section This section can be extremely challenging. Each question has 5 possible responses. The raw score for this section is figured by adding one point for each correct answer and subtracting 1/4 point for each one that is answered incorrectly. The incorrect answers are called distractors‚ and some of them will seem like they could be right. But there is always only one correct answer‚ and if you fill in more than one oval for a particular question on your response sheet‚
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Question 1 1 out of 1.25 points Partial Credit Expand the following by showing the powers of 10 for each place value. 456 = 4 x 10[a] + 5 x 10[b] + 6 x 10[c] 87.045 = [d] x 101 + [e] x 100 + [f] x 10-1 + [g] x 10[h] + 5 x 10[i] 700 = [j] x 102 + 0 x 101 + 0 x 100 Specified Answer for: a 2 Specified Answer for: b 1 Specified Answer for: c 0 Specified Answer for: d 8 Specified Answer for: e 7 Specified Answer for: f 0 Specified Answer for: g 4 Specified
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Effects‚ and Controls of Air Pollution Air pollution depending upon which source you use is broken down in a couple of ways. No matter how you look at it though‚ air pollution is still air pollution and it is both harmful to humans and the environment. One source breaks air pollution down into two categories or seven primary and two secondary pollutant types (Wright & Boorse‚ 2008‚ p. 487). The primary pollutants can more easily be broken down into four types of pollution which are based upon the
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Set No - 1 Subject Code: R13106/R13 I B. Tech I Semester Regular Examinations Feb./Mar. - 2014 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (Common to CE‚ ME‚ CSE‚ PCE‚ IT‚ Chem E‚ Aero E‚ AME‚ Min E‚ PE‚ Metal E) Max. Marks: 70 Question Paper Consists of Part-A and Part-B Answering the question in Part-A is Compulsory‚ Three Questions should be answered from Part-B ***** What are the causes of floods and droughts? What are ecological pyramids? Write about different types of pyramids Write about different values of
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AP® UNITED STATES HISTORY 2012 SCORING GUIDELINES Question 4 Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920s. In your response‚ focus on TWO of the following. Immigration Prohibition Religion The 8–9 Essay • Contains a clear‚ well-developed thesis that addresses the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920s regarding two issues. • Develops the thesis with substantial and specific relevant historical information related to two issues. • Provides
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of Air Pollution on Human Health Yinghua Cui English 151B - 11 Instructor Terry Taskey May 2‚ 2012 The Effect of Air Pollution on Human Health With the booming of science and technology‚ pollution has aroused wide public concern. Industrial civilization creates tremendous fortune. At the same time‚ automobile exhaust ‚ the burning of waste‚ and a multitude of waste gas is discharged into the atmosphere. Humans live depend on air. Therefore‚ it is undeniable that air pollution
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Christopher Columbus Columbus discovered America and proved that the earth was not flat... Right? We tend to "underplay previous explorers" (39). There were probably 15 or more individuals and groups that "discovered" and settled America before Columbus. "Even if Columbus had never sailed‚ other Europeans would have soon reached the Americas... Columbus’s voyage.. was epoch-making because of the way in which Europe responded" (39). "The changes in Europe not only prompted Columbus’s voyage
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I. Three Key Concepts: a. Abstraction: Taking a simpler view of a complex entity by selectively ignoring details. b. Procedure: An unambiguous step-by-step description of how to carry out a task c. Representation: An unambiguous plan for how to build an object from simpler objects. II. Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) a. Given two positive integers a and b‚ find the largest integer that divides both a and b. III. Representation and Abstraction a. An Integer is represented as a sequence of (0s
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