Yulya Tsoy ID 20123285 Date 06.06.13 Cause and Effect Essay. The Aral Sea disaster. The Aral Sea disaster is one of ecological disasters that effect terribly on our life. It was fourth largest lake in the world‚ but nowadays 80 per cent of water disappeared. The main reason why the Aral Sea has shrunk so dramatically is because water from the rivers flowing to it has been diverted for irrigation. The Aral Sea basin is fed by the Syr Darya and Amu Darya Rivers‚ which flow directly into the sea
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Figures Figure 1. Location of Aral Sea. (Google Maps‚ 2013) - 1 - Figure 2. Comparison of the Aral Sea Before 1960 and present day. - 4 - Figure 3. Old Fishing Vessels (Francios‚ 2010) - 4 - 1.0 Introduction The Aral Sea is located in central Asia and is situated between the south of Kazakhstan‚ more specifically Aktobe and Kyzylorda provinces and northern Uzbekistan which is an autonomous part of Uzbekistan. Alternative to what the name suggests‚ the Aral Sea is not in fact a sea‚ it was
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Why have the waters of the Aral receded? Who is responsible? During the 1950’s under the communist regime‚ in an effort to have a main cash crop decided to plant cotton in the desert areas of middle Asia. To water these areas‚ the communist engineers decided to use most of the main rivers that fed the Aral sea as the water source. When the cotton plant did not take to the hard ground. In affect taking more and more water from the source of the Aral sea. What environmental and human costs have
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Geography H/W – The Disappearing Aral Sea This essay intends to first introduce the disappearing Aral Sea‚ which due to the extensive agricultural activities devised by the Soviet government in the region‚ the former fourth-largest lake of the world is now the world’s eighth largest lake. This has resulted in perhaps the world’s most prominent man-made ecological disaster‚ giving its location and background knowledge with a map‚ and then describe its future in terms of how it is going to be utilized
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Disaster of Aral Sea The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest inland sea in the world. About‚ a million years ago from now the northwestern part of Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan were covered by a massive inland sea. This sea was formed when all the waters retreated from a big land; they left a broad plain that contained highly saline soil. Due to the retreating of water many ancient remains were disappeared. The only remnant that remained was a big inland sea which was the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea was
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Years ago the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. Over the years it was dramatically decreased to 80 % of its size since 1960. Now it is harshly affecting the people who live in this area. Children are being born with birth deformities and the number of people with throat cancer has grown. There is a great loss of fish species’ in the sea because of the toxins in the water from fertilizers used on farms. Also with ports now hundreds of kilometers away from the sea the fishing industry
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The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake‚ a body of fresh water‚ although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last 30 years‚ more than 60 percent of the lake has disappeared. The sequence of images above‚ acquired by Landsat satellites‚ shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000. Beginning in the 1960s‚ farmers and state offices in Uzbekistan‚ Kazakhstan‚ and Central Asian states
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Idiom | Meaning | Example | a babe in arms | a baby‚ a child who is wet behind the ears | Dar was just a babe in arms when we emigrated to Canada. | a babe in the woods | a defenseless person; a naive‚ young person | He’s just a babe in the woods. He needs someone to protect him. | a bad taste in my mouth | a feeling that something is false or unfair‚ a feeling of ill will | I left the meeting with a bad taste in my mouth. There was a lot of dishonesty in the room. | a bad time | a lot of
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Cloning plants Many plants clone themselves naturally to reproduce. They send a small shoot-like structure called a runner‚ along the soil. The runner grows into a new separate plant‚ which is genetically identical to the original plant - a clone. People can clone plants by simply taking a cutting of the plant such as a twig or stem and planting it. This is called vegetative propagation. Horticulturists use cloning to grow plants with specific qualities‚ like height‚ flower colour and quality
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1. A literature review on the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and academic achievement revealed that more internal beliefs are associated with greater academic achievement and that the magnitude of this relation is small to medium. Characteristics of the participants in the reviewed studies and the nature of the LOC and academic achievement measures were investigated as mediators of the relation. The relation tended to be stronger for adolescents than for adults or children. The relation
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