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    Dakota Crater  Forensic Science II Unit 8 Quiz Game  1. This database collects and publishes crime data for the US.  Answer: Uniform Crime Reporting  2. This database is maintained by the US Bureau of Alcohol‚ Tobacco‚ Firearms‚ and  Explosives (ATF).   Answer: National Integrated Ballistic  3. This system is used for individuals who are trying to purchase a firearm.  Answer: Instant Criminal Background  4. This is the central database for crime­related information.  Answer: National Crime information center 

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    American Plate. Warning Signs On March 20th there was a minor earthquake‚ which measured 4.1 on the Richter scale. Tremors happened for the next few days until the 27th of March‚ when there was actually a small eruption of steam and ash‚ which left a crater around 250 feet wide.

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    TUNGURAHUA 1. Name of volcano (include one or more pictures). - TUNGURAHUA o “Tungurahua”‚ Quichua tunguri (throat)‚ rahua (fire): "Throat of Fire". o Summit elevation: 5‚023m 2. Geographic location. Is an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Central of Ecuador. The volcano gives name to the province of Tungurahua. Tungurahua (5‚023 m) is located in the Cordillera Central of the Andes of central Ecuador‚ 140 km (87 miles) south of the capital Quito. Nearby notable

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    Area 51 Area 51 is a nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center‚ on the southern shore of Groom Lake‚ is a large secretive military airfield. The base’s primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. Its secretive nature and undoubted connection to classified aircraft research‚ together with reports of

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    for‚ in the north-west quadrant of Gale Crater” (Grossman). The rover landed exactly how it should have with its front wheels facing south and the forward hazard camera facing the mountain. The rover was on looking a sixteen thousand foot high mountain near the crater in which researchers believed could hold secrets on whether Mars is or was habitable. In addition to why the rover landed in the Gale crater is because since it was believed that the crater was once struck with an Antarctic meteor

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    Weapons In WW1

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    Weapons in WW1 Water cooled - via a jacket around the barrel which held approximately one gallon - the Vickers was loaded from a 250-round fabric belt mounted on a tripod.  A rubber hose leading to a container condensed steam from the jacket as a means of minimising water wastage. Although the predominant British machine gun in 1914 and for much of 1915 - it remained so for British imperial troops sited on far-flung battlefields‚ innovations in machine gun design invariably showing up first on the

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    Corinne Carbone 2/8/14 Environmental science There are 8 planets in our solar system; these are divided into two types‚ large gas giants (Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus and Neptune) and smaller rocky terrestrial planets (Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth and Mars). The order from closest to the Sun outwards is; Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ Mars‚ Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus and finally Neptune. Until 2006 Pluto was also classed as a planet‚ however it is now classified as a dwarf planet (meeting the first two requirements

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    a patrol of 40 men from 3rd platoon‚ easy company‚ 28th Marines‚ led by 1st Lieutenant Harold G. Schrier‚ assembled at the base of Mount Suribachi. The platoon’s mission was to take the crater of Suribachi’s peak and raise the U.S. flag. As they reached the top‚ the patrol members took positions around the crater‚ watching for pockets of enemy resistance as other members of the patrol looked for something on which to raise the flag. Present at the crest were 6 marines of a 40 man patrol. They were

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    They were the thermoscope‚ telescope‚ Phase of Sunspots‚ craters on the moon‚ Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment‚ and discovery of the Milky Way. The thermoscope was an early version of the thermometer. It was also built from a small vase filled with water that was attached to a thin vertically rising pipe‚ with

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    Beating‚ Strange Polygonal Shapes Spotted Scientists have discovered that Pluto’s heart informally known as Sputnik Planum appears to be continuously youthful. It was emptied of impact craters and was seen speckled with mysterious polygonal shapes between six and 24 miles in diameter. The planet’s heart has no impact craters‚ which means that there is some kind of geological process that coated Pluto’s Sputnik Planum fairly recently. The broken frozen heart of Pluto might still be beating because it replenishes

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