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    Natural Resources and Energy Paper Spechelle Jones‚ Cherrie Chicaletto‚ Robert Hernandez‚ Jamie Hughes SCI/256 October 13th‚ 2010 The world is growing at a rate of speed of 2.8 people per second and losing 1.6 acres of land per second in accordance with an article last month titled Environmental Impacts from Unsustainable Population Growth on the World Population Awareness website. World Population Awareness is an organization concerned with recent problems of as well as solution ideas

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    Natural Resources and Energy Paper The rainforest is Earth’s oldest living ecosystem. Although they only span 6% of the surface of the Earth‚ rainforests contain more than half of the world’s plant and animal species. The amount of species that live in the rainforest is greater than 30 million plants and animals. In addition to plants and animals‚ nearly 50‚000‚000 tribal people live in the world’s rainforests. They depend on the rainforests to provide them with food and shelter. The rainforest

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    potentially cataclysmic. For the sake of this paper‚ I will take the side of their being bigger environmental issues elsewhere. One the main reasons I believe there are bigger issues is because we simply do not have enough data to back up the ozone depletion theory. The first time the ozone was even discovered was in 1839 by Swiss chemist‚ Christian Schonbein‚ but it wasn’t measured reliably until 1918 by Robert Strutt. Having only 100 years of evidence‚ considering how old the earth is reported to

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    MY ROLE IN PRESERVING NATURAL RESOURCES Natural resources are materials and components (something that can be used) that can be found within the environment. Every man-made product is composed of natural resources (at its fundamental level). A natural resource may exist as a separate entity such as fresh water‚ and air‚ as well as a living organism such as a fish‚ or it may exist in an alternate form which must be processed to obtain the resource such as metal ores‚ oil‚ and most forms of energy

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    Taiwan’s Natural Resources and Food Although Taiwan doesn’t have any big deposits of natural resources‚ it has one that is particularly unique - its foods. The variety of fruits here is astounding‚ and many of Taiwan’sshuiguo (Chinese for fruit) are highly sought-after by consumers around Asia. Mangoes‚ pineapples‚lychee and more are extremely potent here‚ some of the juiciest stuff you can find anywhere. The Taiwanese currency is the New Taiwan Dollar. The currency code for money in Taiwan is TWD

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    barrier and absorbs majority of UV radiation before it hits Earth’s surface. Ozone is made up of three oxygen atoms that are naturally occurring molecules. The depletion of the ozone has become a worldwide issue and is caused by the release of CFCs into the atmosphere. CFCs release chlorine atoms which break down ozone molecules. The depletion of the ozone layer threatens to leave life on Earth unprotected from UV radiation. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) contain chlorine‚ fluorine and carbon atoms. CFCs

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    Economic Importance of Natural Resources The mineral resources constitute a vast potential wealth of our country and varieties of mineral resources are available in all countries namely; iron‚ manganese‚ mica‚ bauxite‚ gypsum‚ titanium‚ thorium‚ uranium‚ chromium etc.‚. These mineral resources‚ when used‚ in a prudent and judicious manner have the powers to convert a developing country into a developed country. Iron: Iron ore plays a key role in the industrialization of a nation and some developing

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    Water is a natural resource in the Earth.Water is essential to our life also‚ such as water can solve our thristy problem‚ water can make us survive‚ water can clean our body‚ water can recharges our fatigue‚ and water can revitalise our skin.According to scientist investigation‚ 70% of our body mass are water.Therefore‚ water is very important to us. Although water is essential to our life‚ we will lose water everyday also.How we lose our water? We can lose water through perspiration‚ respiration

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    The Causes: Effects of Ozone Depletion Cody Tate Buena Vista University Author Note “Prepared for Laura Brauhn’s Globalism Seminar” Abstract This paper will explore what exactly ozone depletion is. It will talk about the definition of ozone depletion and what some of the things are that causes it. This paper will connect global warming with ozone depletion. This paper will give you examples of both biological and environmental. The main thing this paper will talk about is verification

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    Ozone depletion Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth’sstratosphere (the ozone layer)‚ and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth’s polar regions. The latter phenomenon is referred to as the ozone hole. In addition to these well-known stratospheric phenomena‚ there are also springtime polar tropospheric ozone depletion events. The details

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