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    Mount Fuji

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    Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3‚776 m. Mount Fuji was present about 10‚000 years ago. The volcano last erupted in 1707-08. It is located on both sides of the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures just west of Tokyo. It is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu. It is Japan’s highest peak and the most beautiful‚ it is the mountain of all mountains. Mount Fuji is just about in the middle of the Japanese archipelago. On a clear day you can see it from Tokyo‚ 130

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    INTRO Easter island also known as Rapa Nui‚ is located 4300 miles southeaste of Hawaii and covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean. Scientists have discovered evidence that Râpa nui was first settled by polynésien fishermen. They had the disadvantage of living in one of the most fragile environment‚ at the highest risk of deforestation. Witch ment it wasn’t a very sastainable environment. The polynésiens came from the Asia tiwon aria and accsedently got to the island then they planed

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    How Hawaii Became a State

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    Congress passed the Hawaii Admission Act on March 12th‚ 1959‚ which President Eisenhower signed into law five days later‚ officially making Hawaii the 50th state in the United States on August 21st‚ 1959. Hawaii has the world’s most active volcano‚ the crater of Kilauea on Mauna Loa. Sandy beaches‚ towering volcanoes‚ and lush valleys lure thousands of tourists each year to this tropical paradise. Hawaii is the most ethnically and racially diverse state of any state in the union‚ a mix that includes Caucasians

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    Hawaii Casestudy Hotspots

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    Web Enquiries: Why are there volcanoes in Hawaii? The Hawaiian island chain located in the Pacific Ocean is entirely volcanic in nature. Based on plate tectonic theory‚ the majority of volcanoes occur along the margins of plate boundaries. However Hawaii is situated hundreds of miles away from any plate boundary. Your task is to find out why volcanoes have emerged. Key Questions to help your enquiry: * Where is Hawaii? * What are the main islands called? * Identify/name active/dormant/extinct

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    The Five Mass Extinctions

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    A multitude of species have vanished in the five cataclysmic mass extinctions‚ and as of today‚ about 99.9 percent of all species that have existed on Earth are extinct. These five extinctions were the Ordovician-Silurian extinction‚ the Late Devonian extinction‚ the Permian-Triassic extinction‚ the End Triassic extinction‚ and the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. They wreaked havoc on more species than you could imagine‚ and if you think today that there are a lot of species‚ imagine if the five

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    Thera Volcano

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 1.1 The Aegean Region 2 1.2 The Eruption of Thera 2 1.3 Volcanic Consequences 3 1.4 Minoan Civilization Demise 4 1.5 Statement Aim 4 2. References 5 Introduction 1.1 The Aegean Region During the second millennium B.C‚ around 1650‚ there was an eruption of the Thera volcano. Located in Greece‚ the volcano is in modern-day Santorini an island in the south of the Aegean Sea (Fig 1). Thera is part of the South

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    A century ago‚ August 26‚ 1883‚ the island of Krakatau (Krakatoa) in Indonesia‚ the volcano exploded with devastating fury. The eruption was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in history. The effects were experienced on a global scale. Fine ash from the eruption were carried by winds exceeding as far away as New York level. The explosion was heard over 3000 miles away. Volcanic dust exploded in the upper atmosphere‚ affecting incoming solar radiation and the Earth’s climate for several

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    Brief history of earth

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    Assignment on “Brief History of Earth” Course: ENV 107 1 Brief History of Earth The history of the Earth concerns the development of the planet Earth from its formation to the present day. Nearly all branches of natural science have contributed to the understanding of the main events of the Earth ’s past. The age of Earth is approximately one-third of the age of the universe. An immense amount of biological and geological change has occurred in that time span. Earth formed around

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    Volcanic Erruption

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    features of all the volcanoes is a very tedious thing‚ because shape‚ attributes and behavior of different volcanoes depends upon different factors. For example some volcanoes have a Steve peak formed as the lava dome on the other hand other possesses a crater at the summit. More exciting types of volcanoes are ice volcanoes (cryovolcanoes) and mud volcanoes‚ these volcanoes exist on moons of Saturn‚ Neptune and Jupiter. Different Type of Volcanoes and Eruptions Shield volcanoes- these are broad shielded

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    The Ptolemaic-Aristotelian view was very idealized and simple compared to the knowledge we have today. They taught that the planets were perfectly spherical‚ traveling in circular orbits‚ at a constant speed. The geocentric model of our galaxy was also taught‚ meaning the earth would be at the center. Bit by bit‚ philosophers‚ especially in the eighteenth century‚ began to find discrepancies in the ancient model. Copernicus‚ believed that a heliocentric model of the galaxy better accounted for planetary

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