Plum Island Residents Fighting a Losing Battle Throughout history man has built homes along the shorelines of the sea. We built fishing villages to provide sustenance to our people. Life on the seacoast has shifted from one of necessity of sustainability to one of luxury. Though some local people still making a living by harvesting the fruit of the sea these folks are far from living in the lap of luxury. The fact is the “average” person cannot afford to build an oceanfront home. Many of these
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Included in this territory are beaches‚ dunes‚ maritime forests and wetland habitats‚ where a multitude of different animals reside (“Natural Features & Ecosystems” 4). Fire Island is a home to a wide variety of both migratory and resident bird species because it is located along the Atlantic
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infrastructures‚ tourists‚ and the economy. Many times‚ you will notice the land by the sea eating itself away with time. The term used to describe this event is called coastal erosion. Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land and the removal of beach or dune sediments by wave actions‚ tidal currents‚ wave currents‚ drainage
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“If we were to look over the whole world to fine out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth‚ power and beauty that nature can bestow-in some parts a very paradise on earth-I should point to India”. ~ Max Mueller What Max Mueller said is indeed true. Crowned by the Himalayas on top and vast seas surrounding its peninsula‚ India is quite distinct on the world map. The Himalayas enveloped all the beauty with in itself‚ giving rise to the mighty rivers-Indus‚ Ganga and Yamuna and their
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Australian Desert 1. The Tropic of Capricorn passes thru the center of Australia. This means the country lies close enough to trade wind latitudes for the prevailing winds to be from the southeast. These bring maritime conditions‚ with abundant rain‚ to the coast of New South Wales and Queensland. 2. Inland lies the Great Dividing Range‚ a mountain range running the length of the country parallel to the east coast. 3. Lands to the west of the mountains lie in a rain shadow. 4. 40% of Australia’s
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sheetlike sand bodies grade laterally into finer deposits of an alluvial plain TYPICAL SEQUENCE/SEDIMENTOLOGY: fining upward sequence; occasional cross-beds; gravel‚ sand‚ very little silt and mud FOSSILS: root casts and burrows Meandering fluvial system TECTONIC SETTING: low parts of the craton; preserved in downdropping basins or in aggrading coastal sequences; grade downstream into the deltaic system and upstream into a braided system GEOMETRY: long‚ ribbon-like bodies of sand (“shoestring
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weathering and breaking down is known as denudation. Commonly‚ through the process of erosion‚ the large things get broke down into some smaller pieces. The boulder turns into sand. Both the processes of weathering and erosion usually happen in the direction of downhill. The process weathering breaks up the rocks and therefore the sands are carried away by the process of erosion. Types of erosion: Erosion can be of four types. Such as: Water erosion‚ Ice erosion‚ Wind erosion and Wave erosion. Now we
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Afghanistan and the Cronulla riots are all evidence of the destructive nature of conflict and how evident it is in our lives. Sometimes conflict involves large groups clashing due to personal differences as seen in such events as the Cronulla riots. Racism occurs when one racial groups believes that it is superior to another. This shows that today’s society is heterogenous‚ and for everyone to get along‚ other people’s beliefs must be acknowledged and accepted. The 2005 Cronulla riots were a series
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and distant) makes the king seem less powerful and commanding. 6. The sculptor is able to transfer the King’s pride and arrogance to the statue where we can still see these expressions‚ even though it is now in ruins. 7. “the lone and level sands” - It is nature that is constant and unchanging‚ this is emphasised by the alliterations used at the end. 8. Irony is used in the description of “that colossal wreck” – this is an oxymoron or a contradiction in terms. The ruins are described as
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Terms and People to know Amino acids- pairs in DNA: Cytosine with Guanine and Adenine with Thymine Archaea- DNA- DNA’s double structure allows replication Dust Bunnies- Uniformitarianism- laws of nature have not changed over time Snow line- Trace Fossils- Ozone- Stromatolites- Planet Embryos- Rodinia- Prokaryotic cells- last universal common acestor‚ heat-loving‚ heterotroph Siccar Point‚ Scotland- has the unconformity of angular unconformity Moraine- poor sorted glaciall till Erratics-
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