very unique compared to other continents. There are three main reasons for this‚ biological isolation‚ geological stability and the erratic climate. Firstly biological isolation has meant that over the last 40 million years Australia has been separated from all other continents‚ this was the cause from the separation from Gondwanaland around 55 million years ago. This means the Australian flora and fauna has been able to evolve in isolation from all the other continents. It was almost completely covered
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reported sightings of the continent within months of each other. The speculation over the true discovery date and discoverer of Antarctica comes with the multiple just reasons. Antarctica may be defined as discovered to some when the proposal of Terra Australis (the vast continent on the southern part of the earth to balance out the globe) which occurred as early as the first century. Also there’s a belief that previous excursions had opportunities to have seen the continent and not reported it. The
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50 Africa Facts Here is the list of 50 facts about the continent of Africa. 1. There are 54 countries and one “nonself governing territory”‚ the Western Sahara‚ in Africa. 2. All of Africa was colonized by foreign powers during the “scramble for Africa”‚ except Ethiopia and Liberia. 3. Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10‚000 different states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs. 4. The Pharaonic civilization of ancient Egypt is one of the world’s oldest and
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law. Towards the end of his piece‚ he discussed how America split from many areas the world due to oppression. American went to ruin due to its connection with Britain. Continents became more cruel with one another as people searched for freedom. The world was completely transformed as continents split apart.
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victory‚ over the passions is something external to the notion of the good will itself convinces me that it cannot be the exercise of the capacity that Kant esteems--it must be the capacity itself. Perhaps‚ finally‚ Kant is more impressed by the continent person than by
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Antarctica (pronounced /ænˈtɑrtɨkə/ or /ænˈtɑrktɨkə/ ( listen))[2][3][Note 1] is Earth’s southernmost continent‚ encapsulating the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere‚ almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle‚ and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km2 (5.4 million sq mi)‚ it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia‚ Africa‚ North America‚ and South America. For comparison‚ Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia.
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of this famine population lives on the continent of Africa. With African countries ’ large amounts of natural resources‚ tropical climate‚ and vast land‚ there should be no major reasoning as to why starvation is as much of a cause of death as it is. A recent study done in December 2003 by the United Nation ’s World Food Program showed that more then 38 million people throughout the continent of Africa are at risk of starvation. (Bond 2003) The continent is home to more then 800 million people
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that the ratio of continents‚ compared to the ocean‚ was so much smaller than it is now. In figure 2‚ (graph a) the continent fraction of the Earth’s surface as a function of time shows that the continents at first were a small ratio compared to the ocean. It also reveals that as time progressed‚ the continents began to grow and so did the albedo. Graph b shows the surface albedo of the earth as a function of time‚ which verifies that the albedo indeed does increase as the continent fraction also begins
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largest continent on this planet‚ this giant freezing mass is place over the South Pole with a total surface area of about fifteen million square kilometers. However‚ this figure fluctuates depending on the season‚ for example; it is approximately fourteen and a half million square kilometers in the summer. Yet compared to other continents such as the United States‚ it’s shy of almost half as big. Divided into two major areas‚ which are: East Antarctica and Western Antarctica‚ this continent is predominantly
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It is a continent of such Geographical diversity that no one can claim to apprehend genuinely. Most of the Traditional African Diets are the same as today’s diets in African continents. No continent has a longer record of continual unflattering images in the history of modern work. “So‚ let’s begin our culinary journey by riding our minds of the negative
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