A Short History of Nearly Everything is a popular science book by American author Bill Bryson that explains some areas of science‚ using a style of language which aims to be more accessible to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the UK‚ selling over 300‚000 copies.[1] instead describing general sciences such as chemistry‚ paleontology‚ astronomy‚ and particle physics. In it‚ he explores time from the
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TOURISM IN GERMANY Contents INTRODUCTION. 4 1. GERMANY 5 2. GETTING THERE 7 3. ACCOMMODATION IN GERMANY. 10 4. WHERE TO GO. 13 4.1.FESTIVALS 13 4.2. NATIONAL PARKS 15 4.3. ROUTS IN GERMANY. 20 5. A JOURNEY TO BERLIN 24 5.1. ACCOMMODATION IN BERLIN 24 5.2. SIGHTSEEING IN BERLIN 28 5.3. EAT‚ DRINK‚ NIGHTLIFE 32 CONCLUSION. 34 LITERATURE 35 SITES 35 Introduction. Germany is rich by its tourist recourses. Each land has a lot of various places of interest. «Come and be
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Reading EXPLORER 1 Answers Contents Unit 1 – Amazing Animals Unit 2 – Travel and Adventure Unit 3 – Music Festivals Unit 4 – Other Worlds Unit 5 – City Living Unit 6 – Clothing Fashion Unit 7 – Dinosaurs Come Alive Unit 8 – Stories and Storytellers Unit 9 – Tough Jobs Unit 10 – Pyramid Builders Unit 11 – Legends of the Sea Unit 12 – Vanished! Unit 1 Lesson 1A Lesson Overview Target Vocabulary: Amazing Animals Animal Intelligence Answer Key Before You Read A.* 1. T; 2. T; 3. T; 4
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at some stage‚ organisms capable of using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis evolved and became dominant. Oxygen was then released as a product of photosynthesis‚ and oxygen-using organisms became dominant. c. Competition for resources o During the Cretaceous period‚ mammals were limited to the niches in which they originally evolved because the world was dominated by dinosaurs. When the dinosaurs died‚ the mammals were able to populate larger areas of the world as they had few competitors. As they populated
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extinction events. In the Carboniferous‚ rainforest collapse led to a great loss of plant and animal life.[2] The Permian–Triassic extinction event‚ 251 million years ago‚ was the worst; vertebrate recovery took 30 million years.[3] The most recent‚ the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event‚ occurred 65 million years ago‚ and has often attracted more attention than others because it resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs.[4] The period since the emergence of humans has displayed an ongoing biodiversity
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Some terms • Geographical informations system (GIS): Included digital elevation‚ streets‚ land use and cover‚ topographic map‚ hydrology‚ aerial photographs. Software app that brings spatial data together for consolidation. • Horizontal excavation: an excavation for which the goal is to excavate a broad area in order to expose the remains of a single point in time. • Vertical excavation: an excavation for which the goal is to excavate a significant depth of deposits to expose the record of a sequence
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Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth’s lithosphere. The model builds on the concepts of continental drift‚ developed during the first few decades of the 20th century. The geoscientific community accepted the theory after the concepts of seafloor spreading were developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The lithosphere is broken up into tectonic plates. On Earth‚ there are seven or eight major plates and many minor plates. Where plates meet‚ their
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Meteorites are rocks from space‚ which land on Earth‚ attracted by her gravity. The shooting stars that you see at night‚ are actually burning meteors that fall on Earth from outer space! This is the first of many interesting facts that are going to follow. Why do meteorites fall? For the same reason why anything falls on Earth - ’Gravity’. Very few can escape it! Meteorites have their origin in outer space. They are relatively small pieces of dust and debris‚ usually left behind in the wake of a
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Midterm 1 stuff (1‚ 25‚ 26‚ 27‚ 28) 2) What characterizes a prokaryotic cell? a. the lack of ribosomes b. the lack of a membrane-enclosed nucleus c. the presence of a nucleus with no DNA d. the presence of mitochondria e. having a cell wall without a cell membrane 3) Which of the following does NOT comprise a logical hierarchy of organization? a. family‚ order‚ class‚ phylum‚ kingdom b. molecules‚ cells‚ tissues‚ organ systems‚ populations c. organisms‚ populations‚ communities‚ biomes
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KOSOVO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REPORT ON THE STATE OF NATURE 2008 - 2009 Prishtina‚ 2010 Printing of this report was financially supported by United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and the content of this report is not the responsibility of the UNDP. i “Nature and biodiversity‚ living environment and national heritage are everyone’s responsibility” ” CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO iii Dear Readers‚ Well-Wishers of Nature Man and nature have cohabitated
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