Megyn McCaustland Environmental Science Final Project 5 December 2012 Environmental Science – Final Project Environmental Science has been an interest of mine since high school. I originally planned on studying environmental science upon graduation‚ but my life took a different turn when I went straight into the workforce and actually ended up in the construction industry. However‚ I chose this course in the hopes that not only would I fulfill my science credits‚ but I would take something
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The Sahara Desert is located in the northern portion of Africa and covers over 3‚500‚000 square miles (9‚000‚000 sq km) or roughly 10% of the continent (image). It is bounded in the east by the Red Sea and it stretches west to the Atlantic Ocean. To the north‚ the Sahara Desert’s northern boundary is the Mediterranean Sea‚ while in the south it ends at the Sahel‚ an area where the desert landscape transforms into a semi-arid tropical savanna. Since the Sahara Desert makes up nearly 10% of the African
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Global warming is a topic that has been in the news‚ classroom‚ and discussed in many media outlets. This controversial topic has many wondering if global warming is fact or if it is hype in order to create demands in certain markets for product marketing and profits. Even the science community cannot come to an agreement on the reality nor severity of global warming (WSJ‚ 1/27/2012). I happen to believe that the truth lies somewhere between fact and hype but my opinion leans more towards hype
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Tar Sands The majority of oil used by the United States as well as internationally soon may come from the tar sands in Alberta‚ Canada. Extracting oil from tar sands is an extremely costly and immensely dirty way of obtaining fuel. There is currently a plan to build a pipeline‚ the Keystone XL‚ which will run from the supply of tar sands in Albert down the western United States to refineries in Texas. There are two major concerns when dealing with the creation of this pipeline and the increased
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APES Chapter Questions Living in the Environment‚ Miller‚ 15th Ediction Chapter 1: Environmental Problems‚ Their Causes & Sustainability 1. What is an environmentally sustainable society? Give 2 examples. 2. What is the rate of global population growth? 3. How do you calculate doubling time? 4. What is the difference between economic growth‚ economic development and environmentally sustainable development? 5. Define natural capital and natural capital degradation. Give
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beautiful they both form many attractions! To begin with‚ the Navajo sandstone was deposited in the mid Jurassic period ( Herbert‚ 2015). The group of the sandstone is the Glen Canyon group‚ whose members are the Kayenta‚ Wingate‚ and primary aquifer Moab areas (Weaver‚ 2015) ( Navajo Sandstorm‚ 2010). In the upper rock layer of the Navajo sandstone is the Carmel Formation. The current
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“GROUND WATER AND ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE IN GUJARAT” ABSTRACT Though groundwater is an important source of irrigation in India‚ its availability is non-uniform in space and time. In Saurashtra region of Gujarat state‚ problem of groundwater depletion has arisen due to high withdrawal than rate of replenishment of groundwater. This also resulted in seawater intrusion in coastal areas at very high rate. The water harvesting and groundwater recharge activities played an important role in increasing the
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Marine and Lacustrine Deposits ORIGINS AND GEOTECHNICAL ISSUES Robert Bartus s2721227 | 4 104ENG Geotechnical Engineering Practice | August 19‚ 2012 1 The origins of soil deposits on the earth’s crust can reveal significant findings in the chemical and mechanical characteristics of the soils themselves. It is important to uncover such origins to find how and where such deposits may have formed over tens of thousands of years ago. Marine and Lacustrine deposits are two soil types that are commonly
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Keystone XL Pipeline The Keystone XL Pipeline system is used for transporting oil from the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta Canada to the United States. There are four different phases of this pipeline. Phases one and two are already complete. The first phase of the pipeline starts at the Keystone Hardisty Terminal in Canada and stops at Wood River and Patoka‚ Illinois‚ and then phase two starts in Steele City‚ Nebraska and stretches down to Cushing‚ Oklahoma. The completed pipeline is over 2000 miles
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Geology 101 Universal Knowledge Zoology Political Science Astronomy History Biology Geology Geography | Examples of Time & Geology * Sphinx Precambrian Era: (4.5 billion) * Ended 542 million years ago * Started with no life and evolved bacteria & algae Paleozoic Era: (542 – 251 MYBP) * Fish‚ amphibians‚ etc. were early years * Ended with the Greatest Extinction of all time Mesozoic Era: (251 – 65 MYBP * Dinosaurs ruled and small animals developed
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