Jammu and Kashmir jammu and Kashmir (i/dʒɑːmuː/ & /kæʃmɪər/; Urdu: جموں و کشمیر; Dogri‚ Hindi: जम्मू और कश्मीर; Kashmiri: जोम त कशीर(Devanagari)‚ جوم تِ کشیر (Nastaliq); Ladakhi: ཇ་མུ་དང་ཀ་ཤི་མིར།) is a state of India. It is located mostly in the Himalayan mountains and shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south. Jammu and Kashmir has an international border with thePeople’s Republic of China in the north and east while Line of Control separates it from Pakistani controlled
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The Alpine Biome What is a biome? Well‚ according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ a biome is simply “a major ecological community type.” This is just a brief definition. In detail a biome is a large ecosystem that contains animals and plants that adapt in that certain type of environment. The climate and geography of the region determines the biome. The biosphere is anywhere on the Earth where life exists. It can range anywhere from the skies to the depths of the ocean where anglerfish and squids
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become heavy and begin to rain‚ sleet or snow. The precipitation from the clouds then falls back to earth and some of it is absorbed in the ground‚ but most of the water runs off into lakes and streams and eventually back into the oceans where the glaciers and polar ice sheets are. The greenhouse effect is what largely determines this cycle‚ as it is responsible for controlling the earth’s climate. The greenhouse effect is “the distinctive heating effect on the Earth ’s surface due to the gases
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The earth is getting warmer. the changes are small‚ so far‚ but they are expected to grow and speed up. Within the next 50 to 100 years‚ the earth will continue to heat up hotter than it has been in the past million years. As oceans warm and glaciers melt‚ land and cities along coasts may be flooded. Heat and drought may cause forests to die and food crops to fail. Global warming will effect weather everywhere‚ plants and animals everywhere and people everywhere. Humans are warming the earth¹s
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are very slight‚ this slight warming can have a huge impact. This is a pressing issue because our Earth is constantly warming and many catastrophic events could occur if global temperatures rise. For example‚ sea levels could rise and glaciers could melt‚ destroying the habitats of many organisms including us humans. I strongly believe that climate change is caused by humans and that we need to change our
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‘modern’ civilisation as is highlighted by this statement from The City Planners by author Margaret Atwood: “When the houses‚ capsized‚ will slide obliquely into the clay seas‚ gradual as the glaciers that right now nobody notices” This quote illustrates the metaphor that nobody notices the glaciers melting; they are melting slowly‚ as will our urban landscapes‚ and no one is noticing which is the equivalent to observing the downfall of ‘civilisation.’ Another example‚ from the same author
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scientists samples from bubbles that contain small samples of the atmosphere. A proxy indicator is a type of indict evidence that serves as a substitute for direct measurement. It can shed light on past climates. Two examples are ice caps and glaciers. 3. Has simulating climate change with computer programs been effective in helping us predict climate? How do these programs work? 4. Computer programs simulating climate change has helped
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Climate change is rapidly becoming the largest and most complex challenge facing the world today. The politics‚ along with climate change skeptics associated with this rising danger‚ continues to sabotage efforts to curb and control this environmental crisis. As large hurricanes‚ catastrophic floods‚ and colossal earthquakes obliterate entire nations around the world‚ the need of the hour is for the various factions to reconcile their differences and come together to deescalate the effects climate
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development of man depended on the environment and other animals. The environment has played an important role in the history of evolution and the subdivisions which man has broken into. Man moved from living in forests to grasslands and later in ice glaciers. Each of these ecological positions played an important role in the development of man. Evolving from hunters and gatherers to agriculturalists depended on the climate. Human remains have been found all over the world by archeologists and anthropologists
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CGE526 – PETROLEUM GEOLOGY Geology Geology is basically the science which is related to the study of the origin of the Earth including the history and its life‚ the materials that made it up‚ the structure of the materials and the processes acted upon them. It also deals with the study of the organisms that have inhabited the planet and the structure of a specific region of the Earth involving the rocks‚ soils‚ mountains‚ fossils and other features. The word geology was first known used in
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