Hurricane Mitch was born 21 October 1998 in the warm waters near the equator. The sun heats the surface of the sea evaporating 1 trillion tons of water each day. Once in the air the water droplets cool transforming into clouds. Carried by the rising warm air‚ the clouds billow upwards. If the heat from the sea below is strong enough they turn into massive tropical storms. The storm spun towards Central America picking up vast amounts of water and increasing wind speed. On Thursday‚ October 29 1998
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Antarctica Where is Antarctica? Antarctica is the region lying south of the Antarctic Circle‚ and surrounds the South Pole. There is a very small piece of land which points towards South America. Antarctica is very far from the Equator that’s why it is so cold. Antarctica contains 90% of the worlds ice‚ and it contains 10% of the worlds surface. If all of the ice in Antarctica melted‚ the sea level would rise 60 metres. In summer it is almost one-and-a-half times the size of the USA. Antarctica
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Biotic and Abiotic Factors A savanna grassland is an ecological system with scattered shrubs and isolated trees. The grasslands are found on both sides of the equator between tropical rainforests and desert biomes and have warm temperatures year round. A grassland savanna has a variety of biotic and abiotic components ranging from simple to highly specialized plants and animals and physical characteristics. The biotic components of a savanna grassland are the living organisms that inhabit the area
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places near the equator in the countries of Asia‚ Australia‚ Africa‚ South America‚ Central America and on many of the Pacific Islands. The tropical rainforest ecosystem is also-called a tropical wet forest or a tropical moist broad-leaf forest. There several types of tropical rainforest Lowland equatorial evergreen rain forests are forests which receive high rainfall (more than 2000 mm‚ or 80 inches‚ annually) throughout the year. These forests occur in a belt around the equator‚ with the largest
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The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting‚ covering the entire Earth asynchronously‚ or geostationary‚ hovering over the same spot on the equator. Meteorological satellites see more than clouds and cloud systems. City lights‚ fires‚ effects of pollution‚ auroras‚ sand and dust storms‚ snow cover‚ ice mapping‚ boundaries of ocean currents‚ energy flows‚ etc.‚ and other types of environmental
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Map location/series/scale/index/legend Map Series: A group of topographic maps having the same scale and cartographic specifications‚ and with each map identified by its publisher as part of the same series These occur when a map is so large due to its scale it needs to be spread over several sheets Map scale: the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding difference of that in real life Map index: Designed to give relationship between sheets in a series and their coverage‚ availability
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End of year exam in Geography Key words Deforestation Is the felling and clearance of forest land. The process of cutting down a large number of trees in a forest and not replacing them Ecosystem Is a community of plants and animals which interacts with each other and their non-living environment. Sustainable development Understanding how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future generations by not harming the environment. Longshore drift Is a process of transportation
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solar system of its own. Jupiter is made primarily of the gasses hydrogen and helium which makes Jupiter’s atmosphere similar to the suns‚ "it is a big ball of gas". Jupiter rotates west to east and its rotation is so fast that it bulges out at its equator and it takes 11.85 years to orbit once around the sun. One day on Jupiter compared to that of Earths lasts just 9.9 hours. where as a day on Venus lasts 243 days. Jupiter is usually the second brightest planet we can see and it can often be seen all
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In Northern Africa and the Middle East‚ where political unrest has caused violent civil wars and riots‚ climate change has deteriorated people’s lifestyles and drastically changed the weather. According to Christopher Schär‚ a rise in temperature and humidity around the Persian Gulf will create extreme conditions that are intolerable to humans within the next century. Statistically‚ with the temperature rise of 0 .65°C for the past century‚ nearly 200 million people are living in regions that are
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Professor Radcliffe Geology 1 Lab Report December 10‚ 2012 Geology of the Caribbean Islands Have you ever wondered how the famous tropical land masses located in Central America‚ known as the Caribbean Islands‚ came to existence? Well geologists have dated some of the rocks in the islands such as‚ Cuba and Trinidad‚ as far back as the Jurassic time period. This means the rocks formed about 145-200 million years ago‚ therefore the eldest islands from the Caribbean date way back to the time
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