southernmost of China‚ well known for its “the end of sky and the rim of the sea” Length exceeds 130km Width 70km Depth of 11.6 to 18 metres Water transparency and temperature (28-31oc) of the South China Sea are ideal for coral growth The reefs are mainly atolls (with no barrier reefs) The south china sea belongs to the monsoon zone - The Monsoon zone is a belt of low-pressure air currents that circle the Earth at the Equator. The Monsoon Zone is also known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The
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In June‚ French President Jacques Chirac revealed that nuclear tests would be conducted in the Pacific at the Mururoa coral atoll. These tests‚ Chirac‚ stated‚ would consist of eight nuclear explosions in a tunnel 1‚800 to 3‚000 feet below Mururoa beginning in September up until May 96. Chirac declares that these tests are necessary for computer simulation in the future. France has been bombarded with criticism‚ not only from environmental activists‚ but also from political standpoints. Japan
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An Ocean Habitat or sometimes refer to as a marine environment is a place in the ocean where plants and animals interact with the chemical and physical features of the environment. An Ocean habitat is a place where communities of organisms live. The three main ocean habitats of the ocean are the open water‚ the soft sandy to muddy bottom and the hard shore. Examples of ocean habitats are the coral reefs‚ the estuaries and the abyssal zone. Habitats can be classified in a number of ways in order
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Americans decided that their own country did not have enough room so they conducted testing at an atoll called Bikini in the Pacific in 1954. The French also started testing in the Pacific. They tested in the Pacific as they saw it as a vulnerable place that would not have enough strength to fight back. New Zealand began to realise the seriousness of the testing especially after a massive blast at Bikini Atoll and became involved. The first effort to stop the use of nuclear weaponry was the Quaker petition
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bombed Pearl Harbor propelling the United States to join the war. Despite the short time-frame for the U.S. being involved in the war‚ Midway would prove to be the turning point in the Pacific and if the U.S. had not managed to preserve that tiny atoll the Pacific Ocean could very well be dominated to this day by an Imperial Japanese Force. There is but one reason why the U.S. was successful over those three days‚ and that is the daring feats achieved by the naval aviators aboard the USS Yorktown
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CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT BBSB4103 BBSB4103 MOHAMED SHAHIM BHRM BATCH 05 S1308021850 FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT VILLA COLLEGE MOHAMED SHAHIM CROSS-CULTURA L MANAGEMENT BBSB4103 S1308021850 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 ABSTRACT ...............................................................................................................................2 3 INTRODUCTION OF MINISTRY OF HEALTH (MOH) .............................................................3 4 ELEMENTS OF CROSS-CULTURAL SPHERES
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nature of the battle‚ a new war tactic was used on Tarawa the two-mile-long and mile-and-a-half wide island. ‘Atoll War’ relied heavily on pre-invasion massive attacks by battleships and carrier planes. Which then allowed marines to approach through a new concept to the army‚ the amphibious tractor vehicles. The tractor vehicles were able to travel over reefs and barriers. Timing issues and weather complications threatened the time-sensitive mission which then lead to the soldiers being stranded
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hot spot‚ plate tectonics‚ and how Hawaiian Islands were formed - put the volcanic island stages in the correct order 1. Deep submarine 2. Shallow submarine 3. Shield-building 4. Postshield 5. Erosional 6. Rejuvenation 7. Reef-growth 8. Atoll 9. Guyot - label the three major cultural areas in the Pacific (Micronesia‚ Melanesia‚ Polynesia) - describe the two initial Polynesian migrations to Hawai’i and what was believed to be the main differences between them (e.g. peaceful planters
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Wake Island is a small Pacific atoll (ring shaped coral reef)‚ laying halfway between Hawaii and Midway‚ nearly a mile long and less than a half mile wide. The Island held a great significant to the United States military as line of protection guarding the West Coast from inevitable attack due to rising tensions with Japan. In 1941‚ hours after Pearl Harbor‚ the Japanese attacked the Island taking control of it after a two week battle. In conjunction with Pearl Harbor and other Japanese attacks
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[Type the company name] | [Type the document title] | [Type the document subtitle] | | katie | [Pick the date] | Compare nuclear testing in Australia and the Pacific Islands. What are the significant similarities and differences? Were they due to environmental or political factors? | Title ____________________________________________________________ ____________Introduction 150 words (do last) ___________________________________________________________H istory of Nuclear
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