ambience are the swaying casuarina trees and the solitary sand dunes‚ with the constant hum of the waves as they rise and fall gently. Considering its uniqueness‚ the beach supports a varied range of biodiversity. It’s not rare to thus find a horseshoe crab or red crab crawling beside you. While it’s still not very well known among tourists who flock to its cousin beaches of Puri‚ or the temple destination of Konark‚ local tourists often visit Chandipur. One of nature’s many wonders‚ the sea recedes massively
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and they maintain a natural whole for the purpose of breathing and accessing water. They migrate south in autumn and return north in the summer. The migration can total 6000-8000km. Male Harp Seals come in silver gray with black heads and black horseshoe or heart shaped markings on its back‚ which is how they got their name. Female seals are paler in color‚ have markings that are less distinct‚ and are slightly smaller than the males. They tend to molt in April and May. The pups are born with a white
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reef but they do not form so close to shore and are usually much larger than the fringing reef. The fringing reef grows out and the distance from land becomes greater causing the fringing reef to become a barrier reef. The atoll is shaped like a horseshoe or can be a circle. It surround the lagoon although there is no land associated with the atoll. This is because when the land subsides‚ only the reef remains and it has the shape of the land it surrounded. Finally‚ there is the patch reef which
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION Nowadays‚ people are getting to use to collect seashells for fun and for past time. They made decorations‚ even accessories for a doll out of it and most people collect seashells. Here in the Philippines‚ people made seashells for decorations and accessories. They made seashells into accessories for them to sell it. But don’t you know that aside from those things seashells can also be made into a much useful things. In addition‚ seashells are also used in making jewelry. These
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Introduction The ocean has the oldest‚ most diverse‚ most numerous and least studied organisms on earth. It covers almost three fourths of our planet and has the potential to feed the world and supply cures for many diseases. Studying sea plants and animals is a challenge that is becoming easier due to advanced technologies such as deep-sea submersibles‚ sonar‚ lasers‚ videos‚ and satellites. In many cases‚ it ’s simply too hard to make a drug from scratch. The chemistry is too complicated. So
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including a number of species threatened with extinction. The mangrove habitat supports the single largest population of tigers in the world which have adapted to an almost amphibious life‚ being capable of swimming for long distances and feeding on fish‚ crab and water monitor lizards. They are also renowned for being “man-eaters”‚ most probably due to their relatively high frequency of encounters with local people. The islands are also of great economic importance as a storm barrier‚ shore stabiliser
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pictures and experiencing the rush of the Niagara waterfalls. The sun is about to set. There are about 200 colored and white calcium torpedo lights located along the road down the bank of the Canadian side of the gorge and behind the water of the Horseshoe Falls. The illumination of the water falls with different colors of the light creates an effect which is grand‚ magical and brilliant. At night‚ when the water falls are illuminated with different shades of the light‚ I notice the genuine gladness
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right is the "Horseshoe" or Canadian Falls. The height of the American Falls is 176 feet‚ though rock and rubble at the base changes the measurement to 70 feet. Each second‚ 150‚000 US gallons of water fall into the beautiful Niagara River. The length of the brink of the American Falls is 1‚060 feet. The "Horseshoe" or Canadian Falls are somewhat larger. The length of the brink is 2‚600 feet‚ with a height of 167 feet. Each second 600‚000 gallons of water flows over the Horseshoe Falls. Niagara
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the state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge. From largest to smallest‚ the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls‚ the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls lie mostly on the Canadian side and the American Falls entirely on the American side‚ separated by Goat Island. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls are also located on the American side. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America.The Niagara Falls are renowned both for their beauty and as
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Chapter 32 – An Introduction to Animal Diversity All animals share a common ancestor‚ sponges are basal animals‚ eumetazoa is a clade of animals with true tissues‚ most animal phyla belong to the clade bilateria‚ and vertebrates and some other phyla belong Animals share a unique homeobox-containing family of genes‚ known as the Hox genes‚ suggesting that this gene family evolved in the eukaryote lineage that gave rise to animals. Hox genes play important roles in the development of animal embryos
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