because they are vertically hit by the sun’s rays. Just like the weather here in the Philippines. Places that are far from the equator are cooler because they are not vertically hit by the sun’s rays. Just like the north pole and the south pole. 3. Latitude It is the distance north or south
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TEST FORMAT: Exam #1 will be worth 100 points and consist of short answer/definition‚ listing and descriptions. SAMPLE QUESTIONS: 1. According to Theories of Verbal Coding‚ list & define the three ways in which the study of signs and/or verbal coding can be approached (6 pts). 1. semantics: how signs relate to things meaning 2. Pragmatics: how signs effect human behavior 3. Syntactic: signs relating to other signs 2. List the concepts of the Scientific Method (4 pts). 1. statement of
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GEOMORPHOLOGY : THE STUDY OF THE CONFIGURATION OF THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH RELATED TERMS : • PHYSIOGRAPHY • RELIEF • TOPOGRAPHY • LANDFORMS • LANDSCAPES SURFACE FEATURES EARTH = 2 PRINCIPAL PARTS 1. 1/3 LAND (CONSISTS OF FOUR LARGE LAND MASSES DIVIDED INTO SEVEN CONTINENTS & THOUSANDS OF SMALLER LAND MASSES 2. 2/3 WATER (FOUR MAJOR OCEANS & HUNDREDS OF SMALLER BODIES OF WATER CONTINENTS (by the number of countries) #1 Africa - (53)
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ECOSYSTEMS RAINFOREST By: Christina L. Jackson The business dictionary definition of rainforest is a dense forest of evergreen trees growing in regions of heavy year-round rainfall in tropical latitudes (such as Amazon Basin‚ Borneo‚ New Guinea‚ North-East India‚ and Zair Basin) and warm temperate latitudes (such as Eastern Australia‚ Florida‚ South Africa‚ South Brazil‚ South and Central China‚ South Japan‚ and New Zealand’s North Island). Nearly half of these forests are in the Central and South
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Arctic Sea Melting Enhancing the Effect of Global Warming in High Latitudes The world warmed by about 0.7°C in the 20th century. Every year in this century has been warmer than all but one in the last century (1998). If carbon-dioxide levels were magically to stabilize where they are now (almost 390 parts per million‚ 40% more than before the industrial revolution) the world would probably warm by a further half a degree or so as the ocean‚ which is slow to change its temperature‚ caught up.
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1 Philippine History with Politics‚ Governance and Constitution Lesson No. Date 02 20 Nov. 2013 Lesson Title The Setting of the Philippines Lesson Target Identify connections between geography‚ culture‚ politics‚ and the economy References Title Author State and Society in the Philippines The History of the Filipino People Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People‚ vol. II The Earliest Filipinos Roots of Dependency: Political and Economic Revolution in the
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1. The Earth is really a water planet; what percentage of Earth’s surface is covered by water? a.71% 2. Who is considered to be the "father of physical oceanography" because of publication of information from ship’s logs in the book "The Physical Geography of the Seas"? b.Matthew Maury 3. Scientists know that the outer core of the Earth is liquid because S waves have not survived travel through the Earth’s interior. True 4. The Pacific Ring of Fire refers to the: a. circle of violent
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My roommate had a dilemma in the evening before he left the dormitory to catch a morning flight: whether to wash and then pack clean bed sheets‚ but not sleep comfortably on his own bed; or not launder them‚ sleep well‚ and stuff the dirty bedclothes into a box and store it over the vacation. Our female friend heard us trying to find a solution to the dilemma and suggested that we could share my bed for one night‚ and the problem would‚ thus‚ be solved. Surprised by her queer suggestion‚ we were
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WEATHER Clouds: Where two masses of air from different sources and with different characteristics meet‚ Boundary lines are formed where the cooler and heavier air runs under the warmer and Lighter air and compels it to rise. As in the previous case the expansion and cooling of this air results in the formation of Clouds spreads as a more or less continuous of stratiform clouds. Air may be forced to rise up the sides of mountains and high grounds towards which the wind is blowing..The consequent
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1 CHAPTER 3 PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY 3.1 Introduction It is assumed in this chapter that readers are familiar with the usual elementary formulas encountered in introductory trigonometry. We start the chapter with a brief review of the solution of a plane triangle. While most of this will be familiar to readers‚ it is suggested that it be not skipped over entirely‚ because the examples in it contain some cautionary notes concerning hidden pitfalls. This is followed by a quick review of spherical
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