Introduction Trees are one of the most important aspects of the planet we live in. Trees are vitally important to the environment‚ animals‚ and of course for us humans. They are important for the climate of the Earth‚ as they act as filters of carbon dioxide and most importantly provide oxygen to us. Forests act as a habitat and shelters to millions of species. However‚ these trees are being depleted at a very fast rate. According to some estimates‚ more than 50 percent of the tree cover has disappeared
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biodiversity. Many of our plants and animals cloud be found in the rainforests. It is due to the constant high temperature and humidity in the tropics. Unfortunately‚ many forests are threatened due to deforestation. The primary reason are commercial logging and cutting of trees to provide for their agriculture needs. There are so many effects of deforestation in our country. Not only to the giant trees will be lost but also the species living in the forests disappear Some of it are the tarsiers and
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exploitative nature of our industrial society. As the NIC’s with rainforests in have begun to develop they found the economic value of the rainforests for many international markets as well as internal infrastructure; the resources available are priceless. Logging companies are granted forestry rights‚ usually cheaply‚ to harvest timber to sell abroad for furniture‚ houses and paper. The economic value of this income is invaluable to an industrialising country‚ as it is usually needed to pay off interest on
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virtually halted in many countries. Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by approximately 60 percent. Facing plummeting demand with few alternate sources of jobs‚ areas dependent on primary sector industries such as farming‚ mining and logging suffered the most. However‚ even shortly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929‚ optimism persisted; John D. Rockefeller said that "These are days when many are discouraged. In the 93 years of my life‚ depressions have come and gone. Prosperity has always
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Article Summary: Read-Only Participants: A Case for Student Communication in Online Classes Amanda Hicks Grand Canyon University: EDU 535 March 11‚ 2015 Article Summary: Read-Only Participants: A Case for Student Communication in Online Classes This article discusses how communication‚ or lack thereof‚ affects student outcomes in the online learning environment. The author is trying to communicate the importance of communication‚ teamwork‚ and quality input in online learning. Beaudoin proposed
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Business Programs Economics- Homework Set 4 Dr. Demetri Tsanacas 1. When the price of compact discs (CDs) increased from 10 to 11‚ the quantity of CDs demanded decreased from 100 to 87. What is the price elasticity of demand for CDs Is demand elastic or inelastic 2. Explain why the demand for residential natural gas (gas used for heating‚ cooling‚ and cooking) is more elastic than the demand for residential electricity. 3. Would you expect the demand for a specific brand of running
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Background of the Study INTRODUCTION The University of Southern Mindanao‚ Kabacan‚ North Cotabato is one of the leading institution that conducts regular faculty performance evaluation. This activity is done every semester wherein each student has to rate his teacher per subject‚ head of the academic office has to rate his subordinates‚ and faculty itself has to rate his own and his co-faculty. Teachers are one of the backbones of an institution. Their effort‚ skills and perseverance aid
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and French Guiana. (See Figure 1) Land clearing has become a major contributing factor in the destruction of Amazon Forest and the development of its land. This is predominantly due to human activities which impact the Amazon Rainforest such as logging‚ agriculture‚ cattle grazing‚ urbanisation‚ and medicine. Factors mentioned above‚ exceedingly impacts the environment within the Amazon Rainforest‚ creating issues such as poor farming land‚ a decline in water quality‚ habitats being annihilated
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that deforestation poses. Since deforestation has had no severe effect on us yet‚ we ignore the problem; however‚ deforestation can cause a major problem for our environment. Some of the problems are carbon dioxide‚ wasting paper‚ climate change and logging. Deforestation increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide in our world’s atmosphere acts like a sheet of glass on a greenhouse. It lets the sunlight through but does not let all the heats back out. The continued
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The Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil‚ South America. In the middle of the Equator and the Tropic Of Capricorn. I used this photo to show the delicacy of the food web. Plant and animal ecosystem would be affected if you took out one of the species of the food web. The Amazon rainforest consists of four layers or communities. Each layer has unique ecosystems‚ plants‚ and animals adapted to that system. Many of the species in the rainforest are vulnerable to extinction because they depend
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