Sea Turtles (Lessons 03.02‚ 03.04‚ 03.05) What types are typically found in Florida? What types are not typically found in Florida? What are the 2 main parts (upper and lower) of a sea turtle shell called? Can a sea turtle’s shell heal if injured? Do sea turtles need to drink freshwater? Do we typically find sea turtles in cold water areas? Large headed sea turtles are called what type of sea turtle (think about the type we rescued in lesson 03.04) What do we look for to help determine
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The Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) is an aquatic reptile‚ which are given their name for their large skull and powerful jaws. Adults can weigh anywhere from 155 and 375 pounds‚ making them one of the largest hard-shelled sea turtles in the world. Their shells are mostly brown with yellowish spots and yellow underbellies. As many sea turtles do‚ females come ashore during summer to nest. Once hatched‚ juvenile turtles make their way to the ocean. From nest to shore is one of the most dangerous
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Greeks and that was fire. They used it to light up their arrows that would then find their way to a moving energetic ball of finely woven sticks and grass‚ the fire would then catch light to the traveling plunging balls that were pushed down the sand dunes to then finally make it to the mass of Greeks waiting to fight the people of Sparta. Troy used this to their advantage as it burnt alive and crushed many Greeks. Imagery is used throughout the film. With all battle scenes‚ some parts weren’t shown
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A Walking Holiday in Costa Rica by Mary Novakovich – Answer Sheet (a) Why were the writer and her companions visiting Costa Rica? [1] The writer and her companions were visiting Costa Rica in order to write about their experiences of Costa Rica. (b) What two reasons does the writer give for the sense of panic she refers to in paragraph one? [2] The writer refers to the sense of panic by saying: “Scores of taxi drivers swarmed round us‚ making it difficult to find our gide who was to look after
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For Gary Snyder‚ the landscape is a muse for the imagination. Once a spiritual student in Japan‚ he incorporates the Zen Buddhism he studied and adopted in his poems‚ which meshes curiously yet kindly with the primitivism his pastoral inclinations nurture. The ground is an analeptic of sorts—it offers a cure‚ the prerequisites of which are a return to our origins which can never be divorced from the soil. As a contemporary poet‚ Snyder recognizes the one-way departure man risks to take from the
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no other place in the world where I feel the most at home than being at Long Beach Island. There you can smell the fresh‚ salty air of the ocean as the warm breeze brushes across your face. It is a place where the sand‚ sometimes chilled by the water or boiling hot up in the sand dunes‚ fiddles its way through your toes one by one sending chills down your spine with every step. Off in the distance you can hear the chiming of bells as the ice cream men call children of all ages to cool themselves
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the two rival cities were a bit different‚ as Nubia was rockier in contrast to Egypt. The vast municipality of Ancient Egypt was more arid‚ xerothermic‚ and desert-like‚ with a smoother terrain‚ often depicted by the mind as a large sand dune with carroty-red sand gently blowing over the sides. The one obvious similarity was the lengthy Nile River that ran through both of the civilizations that supplied each city with resources. Both the Ancient Egyptian and Nubian civilizations were also built
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Self-Test Chapter 1 1. ____________ is fundamentally concerned with understanding the processes that operate at or beneath the surface of Earth and the materials on which those processes operate. a. Economic geology b. Physical geology c. Historical geology d. Environmental geology e. Planetary science 2. In the scientific method‚ a theory is ____________. a. an assumption that cannot be either proven or refuted. b. a plausible‚ but yet to be proved‚ explanation of a phenomenon
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The Hardest Lesson The year two thousand eight was the hardest year of my life‚ the year I lost the one thing that meant the most to me and the one thing that could never be replaced. It all started with an argument with my father I was fourteen at the time and was hard-headed and arrogant. I thought I could make my own money to help support the family; my father had been laid off of work the year before. When he found this out he was furious with me‚ he didn’t understand why I would do such a
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In the modern world today‚ the media has rendered the generation of youth to a state in which books are frowned upon. In a frightening foreshadowing of what may result of this‚ Ray Bradbury’s "Fahrenheit 451" depicts the struggle of a fireman in a world of ’equality’ and censorship. Guy Montag’s troubled character in was conflicted with feelings of conformity and a longing to find the truth. Each symbol in the book represented a either a struggle or characteristic of Montag. The most important symbols
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