human erosion. * Powerful waves – A cause of the long fetch from the Arctic Ocean and dominant wind from the North East. * Factors affecting the fetch: * Currents – or swell – which circulate around the UK from the Atlantic and into the North Sea. The Atlantic fetch is 5000km or more‚ and its currents add energy to waves in the North Sea. Therefore‚ there are often powerful destructive waves along this coastline. * Low pressure weather systems passing over the North Sea are often
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Earhart by Women Can Fly Introduction to Aviation‚ AVS 110 001 Instructor John Mead FALL 2013 Biography on Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on June 17‚ 1928. This gave birth to the world of women aviators‚ by reading about Amelia Earhart’s great journeys. She was an inspiration not only to women and aviators at the time‚ but also artists‚ writers and radio talk shows across the
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THE MYSTERIES OF BERMUDA TRIANGLE Thesis Statement: Retracing the illustrious secrecy behind the Bermuda Triangle (sometimes designates as the Devil’s Triangle) - nonetheless isn’t really a mystery after all. Introduction Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without any evidence over the decades in a gigantic triangular zone of ocean with illusory points in Bermuda‚ Florida‚ and Puerto Rico. Some people have asserted that these disappearances fall beyond the limit of human errors
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changes as pronounced temperature contrasts develop between land and water. In January‚ lows reverse to highs over land (forming Canadian and Siberian highs) but become extremely intense and stormy low pressure areas over the relatively warm North Atlantic and North pacific Oceans (Iceland low and Aleutian low) In the southern hemisphere‚ little change occurs from summer to winter due to global encirclement by the southern oceans. 4. Polar high pressure belts (Polar highs) On the average‚ high
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nothing is changed. Bluefin Tuna populations in the Atlantic Ocean have declined over 70 percent in the last thirty years yet because seafood is a global commodity being flown into markets around the world the demand has become unquenchable. Overfishing for Bluefin continues scientist expect the fish to become extinct by 2012 if nothing changes. (PBS.org) The Bluefin Tuna is a species of Tuna native to both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean as well as the Mediterranean Sea. This is a relatively
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the compass started during the Age of Discovery in the 15th century. The Portuguese began systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa from 1418‚ under the sponsorship of Prince Henry. In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias reached the Indian Ocean by this route. In 1492 the Spanish monarchs funded Christopher Columbus’s expedition to sail west to reach the Indies by crossing the Atlantic‚ which resulted in the Discovery of America. In 1498‚ a Portuguese expedition commanded by Vasco da Gama reached India
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letter in a bottle‚ sealed it up‚ and dropped it in the Atlantic Ocean‚ off the Florida coast. It was kind of an experiment for school. In the letter‚ he appealed to whomever came across the bottle to contact him and let him know where in the world it showed up. Amazingly‚ someone did. About 16 months after the bottle was dropped‚ Swearingen’s marine science teacher heard from someone in Ireland. The letter had made its way across the Atlantic Ocean and washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle
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In the late 1800s‚ America and Britain wanted to get goods from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans cheaper and quicker. Panama was the best choice for building a canal. France was the first to try to build a canal across Panama. They first started with a sea-level canal‚ but then realized that a lock canal would be much easier. Although‚ they didn’t have enough funding for it‚ so their attempts were put to an end. So‚ Theodore Roosevelt bought the canal zone in 1902. When a treaty was made to build
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to find out about America (New World). This new land found changed the whole world. It all started in 1492 when Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He made trips to America in 1492‚ 1493‚ 1498‚ and 1503. Counting that he made 4 across the Atlantic Ocean to America from Spain. He accidentally found America‚ thinking that it the East Indies when he tried to find a water west from Europe to Asia. Christopher Columbus‚ son of a wool merchant‚ was born in Genoa‚ Italy on October 1451. Being
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CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE GLOBAL HEAT BUDGET - 40 MARKS The global heat budget is the balance between incoming insolation‚ and outgoing radiation from Earth. There are many factors that influence this heat budget‚ some of which are more important than others. In this essay I am going to describe and explain each factor involved. Insolation is the incoming energy from the sun in shortwave ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The distribution of insolation over the Earth’s surface
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