OCEANS AND THEIR COASTAL MARGINS: Distributions of oceans and ocean currents Distribution and Importance of Oceans: Oceans cover about 70% on the earth’s surface Great importance to humans in number of ways‚ include: regulating global climates and as a source of economic materials. Oceans are also important for leisure and recreation Oceans cover about 50% of the earth’s surface in the northern hemisphere and about 90% in the Southern hemisphere Ocean / Sea Area in 1000km^2 Pacific
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The Ocean Floor No one has ever walked the sea floor and few have even seen it. This is because of the extreme conditions found there. It is dark‚ and the temperature is close to freezing. A person standing on the sea floor would be under tremendous pressure from the overlaying water. The pressure is hundreds of times greater than the atmospheric pressure. Such a force would crush the human body. Using research submersibles which are specially designed to with stand the pressure of the water‚ scientists
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the environmental sustainability principles of glacial melting in Alaska‚ global warming‚ and Arctic range. The concepts of how these environmental changes effect the human ability to enhance ecosystem services will be explored. The normal increase in temperature is only one degree throughout the world within the past 30 years‚ but is sufficient to start the melting of polar caps in the Arctic and raise the sea level. The melted white ice tends to reflect sunlight and turns into dark water-meaning
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the reader where the information came from. Here are a few examples of paraphrasing Original Passage: The Lomonosov Ridge is 1‚100 miles long‚ about the distance from San Francisco to Denver‚ and rises about 10‚000 feet from the floor of the Arctic Ocean. Geologists think the ridge might have broken away from a continent about 55 million years ago and remained near the North Pole while other landmasses drifted away. Moran and other scientists chose the ridge for potential drilling during a 1991
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The Man in the Water In the essay "The Man in the Water" by Roger Rosenblatt‚ the Man in the Water did something heroic that most other people probably would not do. He and a great deal of other people were in a plane crash and landed in the Arctic Ocean. They were floating in the middle of freezing cold water with no one around to help. Soon enough‚ a helicopter rescue team came to save the group of people that had crashed by pulling them out of the water. Every time the rescue team lowered a
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changes and continuities in commerce in the Indian Ocean region from 650 c.e. to 1750 c.e. THESIS: In the period between 650 C.E. and 1750 C.E.‚ the Indian Ocean region endured both change and continuity. CHANGES: Who dominated the trade‚ use to be used mostly by Indians and the Chinese but by 1750 Europe dominated most of all commerce.tfrtftgfygdfgrffffffffzzzzzgdfr1. Analyze the changes and continuities in commerce in the Indian Ocean region from 650 c.e. to 1750 c.e. THESIS:
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Robert Walton a romantic arctic explorer who learns and records Victor’s story in letters to his sister in England Margaret Saville. Victor Frankenstein the genius mind behind creating the monster that results in his life going downhill until he is found by Walton on an ice burg in the North pole between life and death. Finding that his savior is also running after an obsession‚ Victor lying on his death bed recounts his wretched life to his rescuer hoping that he would learn from his mistakes
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exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” Al Gore According to the National Snow and Ice Data (NSIDC)‚ since 1979 the arctic sea ice minimum extent has shrunk by more than 50% and even greater amounts of ice have been lost in the corresponding thinning of the ice. Many scientists are now agreeing that the Arctic may be completely ice-free during the summers as soon as the end of this decade. This will undoubtedly cause the type of environmental blow-back that threatens
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and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River‚ Hudson Strait‚ and Hudson Bay are all named after Hudson. Little is known about Hudson’s early life. Hudson was hired by the Muscovy Company in 1607‚ to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson made two trips (in 1607 and 1608)‚ but failed to find a route to China. In 1607‚ he sailed to Spitzbergen (an island north of Scandinavia in the Arctic Ocean) and discovered Jan Mayen Island (a tiny
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Wind softly caressed my cheeks‚ sending strands of my hair dancing across the back of my neck‚ the roaring crash of the waves against the rocky shore attempted to distract me‚ and the salty scent of the sea crept through my nose. My concentration‚ however‚ never broke. It was as if all the elements of the nature surrounding me realized I wasn’t easily distracted. Everything stopped at once. In only a moment there was no longer any wind‚ no salty air‚ and no obnoxious sound. It all paused for a single
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