These vocarious and ambitious predators can expand their stomach 30 times in volume‚ making it capable of eating fish as large as a 20 pound grouper. A lionfish is known to be able to survive up to 3 months without food; with the lionfish in the Atlantic though‚ the lionfish are actually obese due to overeating‚ even suffering from liver damage. It is estimated that a single lionfish can reduce marine creatures by 80% to 90% within 5 weeks. This broad diet is part of how lionfish make such a huge
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havoc on the east coast‚ in the US. Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record‚ as well as the second-costliest Atlantic hurricane in history‚ only surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Hurricane Sandy formed on Oct. 22 and started to dissipate Oct. 31‚ 2012. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season‚ Hurricane Sandy devastated portions of the Caribbean‚ Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. The Caribbean’s
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the polar regions Ocean Surface Currents Oceanic circulations ●Horizontal flows (along the sea SFC; mostly wind generated) MOC A(tlantic)MOC ●Gulf Stream / North Atlantic Current (SFC currents) carry warm water from tropical Atlantic to polar region. ●Sinking in Nordic Seas and Labrador Sea produces North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). ●NADW flows as a cold current at depth back to equator. ●Water transport along the AMOC consists of wind driven and density driven (i.e. THC) currents.
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helped change the way the world looked at women. Amelia Earhart is a leader when it comes to equal rights for women because she attempted to fly around the world when everyone said she couldn’t.Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean‚ and Earhart was the first person to try to fly around the world. ‘‘Earhart set herself a new goal‚ to fly around the world at (or near) the equator‚ some thing never before attempted.’’(Amelia Earhart. Explorers)
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explorer‚ born in the year 1451‚ voyaged across the Atlantic in search of a westward passage for direct trade with Asia in 1492. With burning ambitions‚ Columbus traveled to claim wealth and power for Spain and to convert the “pagans” of the New World to Christianity. Following in Spain’s footsteps to expand their country’s empires to the Americas‚ France‚ Portugal‚ and the Netherlands would send elite navigators to venture across the Atlantic Ocean in hopes to claim land and acquire power‚ only
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freshwater in the ocean disrupted the North Atlantic Current. The North Atlantic Current is what is responsible for the warm temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. With the current disrupted the Northern Hemisphere went into an ice age. In real life‚ the polar ice caps are melting‚ but at a rate not even close to that of the one represented in the movie. Even if the ice was melting at a quicker rate‚ the chance that it would throw off the North Atlantic Current is slim to none. Also‚ there is
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Wikipedia In context The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. education.nationalgeographic.com This gyre is similar to the North Pacific Gyre in the way it traps man-made marine debris in the North Atlantic Garbage Patch‚ similar to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific. Wikipedia Charles J. Moore is an oceanographer and racing boat captain known for articles that recently brought attention to the ’Great Pacific Garbage Patch’‚ an area
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serious environmental problems: rising water of the Atlantic Ocean bordering Victoria Island. A recent surge submerged Kuramo Beach‚ sacking its inhabitants and burying their squatter houses. This is a threat to investments (residential and commercial property) and‚ by extension‚ the state’s economy. When the state government came up with the idea of Eko Atlantic City that would be sitting on nine million square metres of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean‚ it listed protection of the coastline‚ reducing
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Oxygen – Carbon dioxide Cycle The Carbon Dioxide- Oxygen Cycle relates to the relationship between Carbon Dioxide [CO2] breathing plants and Oxygen [O2] breathing life forms. All oxygen-breathing life forms take in Oxygen and exhale CO2. Plants take in the CO2 and use it in their photosynthesis process and in turn give off oxygen. The Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle is a continuously occurring process whereby animals inhale Oxygen and then exhale carbon dioxide‚ and plants use the CO2 and "exhale"
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some of the accompanying gentlemen and sailors. Still in the eastern Atlantic‚ a Portuguese merchant ship and its pilot - who was to stay with Drake for 15 months - was captured‚ and the fleet crossed the Atlantic‚ via the Cape Verde Islands‚ to a Brazilian landfall. Running down the Atlantic South American coast‚ storms‚ separations‚ dissension‚ and a fatal skirmish with natives marred the journey. Before leaving the Atlantic‚ Drake lightened the expedition by disposing of two unfit ships and one
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