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    Climate Zones

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    NOTES: The word is divided into 6 climate zones. These zones depend on several factors. The first is temperature; if a country lies near the equator it tends to be hot; but if it’s near the poles it tends to be colder. A country can also have a cold climate if it’s very mountainous with most of its land sitting well above sea level. Wind direction can also influence climate. If winds are being blow from a hot area they will raise temperatures‚ the opposite is also true. If winds have been blown

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    Abyssal Zone

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    Abyssal Zone Steven Jevan 10.2 Located deeper than 2000 meters underneath the ocean surface‚ lies a biome that we have barely seen and realize. This unbelievable and incredible biome is called the abyssal zone. With a depth reaching down to 6000 meters‚ it is impossible to inhabit this biome. Conversely‚ certain organisms have managed to keep their survival in this very biome through particular processes. Initially‚ the abyssal zone and the living organisms inside it‚ suffers

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    Crumple Zone

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    Crumple Zone I choose to look at the crumple zone in cars for my technological device and briefly touch upon seat belts in cars and air bags. The crumple zone in my own words is a zone built in an automobile to compress when an accident occurs. This was built to absorb “deformation” energy from the impact. The other reason it was built‚ which is more common is to reduce the deaths in car accidents. Crumple zones are mostly located in the front of a car and this will absorb the energy from “head

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    Time Zones

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    Time Zones Christopher D. Smith GLG/150 July 21‚ 2010 The Greenwich Meridian is a north-south line representing a zero degree-reference line in longitude. The line passes through the United Kingdom and it represents the world’s prime meridian. Longitude is used to measure the distance of areas on the world east‚ or west. Think of it like the equator‚ where the equator separates the southern and northern hemispheres. The Greenwich Meridian separates the east and west hemispheres. According

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    the blue zones

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    The Blue Zones The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner talks about the author’s research in different places who have people who live into very long years of their life in a few areas of the world who claim to have the highest number of the oldest people. Blue Zone is a concept used to identify a demographic and/or geographic area of the world where people live measurably longer lives‚ as Dan Buettner describes in his book. The concept had

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    The Intertidal Zone

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    The Intertidal Zone The intertidal zone is the area of the sea floor that is uncovered and recovered by the tides. At high tide‚ the intertidal zone is submerged beneath sea water and at low tide it is exposed to air. There are two main types of intertidal zones that experience this daily change‚ the sandy shore and the rocky shore. Each has different characteristics and special organisms that survive there. These different species tend to inhabit different zones in which they can handle but there

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    eye contact

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    This topic we will give a speech in the class which is talking about the protestors in order to protect the environment was destroyed that cause conflict with the government and companies. Our group use coal-seam gas as an example to describe the issue threatening the environment. The basic knowledge of coal-seam gas will introduce in the beginning of the speech. Two case studies respectively describe people who through do some radical behaviours to anti someone to damage the homeland. Prevalent

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    Comfort Zone

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    Comfort Zone Brian Tracy‚ one of the top success speakers and authors in the world‚ has once said‚ “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” His point is that‚ when one steps out of her comfort zone it will be strange‚ difficult‚ or painful. However‚ one will only grow or learn from the experience if they accept the embarrassment‚ difficulties‚ and the awkwardness that come with trying something new. I agree

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    The Hot Zone

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    The book begins with a French Man‚ nicknamed Charles Monet‚ visiting the Kitum Cave*. A few days after‚ he begins to suffer from symptoms such as vomiting‚ red eye‚ and back pain. He is later taken to the Nairobi Hospital*. There‚ he goes into a coma and dies. Shem Musoke was infected by exposure to Charles’ blood and vomit. Musoke developed symptoms from the filovirus* and survived. This particular filovirus was found to be the Marburg virus*. Dr. Nancy Jaax had been promoted to the Level 4* Biosafety

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    Hot Zone

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    The Hot Zone The Hot Zone is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers‚ particularly Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. This book is based upon an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a monkey house located in the Washington‚ D.C. suburb of Reston‚ Virginia. The author weaves together the tales of several previous outbreaks in Africa to describe clearly the potential damage such an outbreak could cause. The first

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