the UAE Location: United Arab Emirates Scale: International Time: Current Sketch Map/ Diagram: UAE international airports In the box above draw a sketch map (in pencil and colors) locating the case study area with a main line of latitude and longitude. Include also scale‚ compass direction and surrounding settlements/bodies of water (whatever is relevant in terms of location). Facts/ Figures ( STEEP- LIST) Intro The UAE (United Arab Emirates) only has a population of about 8 million‚ but it has
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Fiji’s latitude and longitude is 18° 00’ S and 175 ° 00’ E. Below above and all around it are Vanuatu to the west‚ tonga to the east‚ and Tuvalu to the north. Starting from MCI‚ Kansas city airport‚ it would take 14 hours and 13 minutes give or take‚ to get to Figi’s airport. Figi is a volcanic built island with a very mountainous terrain. It is a grouping of hundreds of little tiny islets‚ but the main land consists of three larger land masses called islands. Fiji’s is a warm tropical place
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secretive. Different signs come with a seperate set of personality traits. The concept of Zodiac astrology originated in the Babylonian time period and was heavily influenced by Babylonian astrology. It is the circle of twelve divisions of celestial longitude that revolves around the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The name‚ ‘Zodiac’ derives from the Greek word ‘zodiakos kyklos’ which translates to ‘Circle of Animals.’ Mainly because it is influenced by the fact that half of the signs are influenced by
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seasons‚ the wet and the dry seasons‚ which both last around 6 months. They get over 100 inches of rain a year‚ hence the name rainforest. The rainforest usually stays around 80 degrees all year round. In the rainforest i’m in currently in‚ the longitude and latitude is 3.4653° S‚ 62.2159° W. The soil in
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Aryabhata (Sanskrit: आर्यभट About this sound listen (help·info); IAST: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[1][2] (476–550 CE)[3][4] was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (499 CE‚ when he was 23 years old)[5] and the Arya-siddhanta. The works of Aryabhata dealt with mainly mathematics and astronomy. He also worked on the approximation for pi. Name While there is a tendency to misspell
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and Asia by the Sinai Peninsula. It is surrounded by the Gaza Strip‚ and Israel in the northwest‚ Libya is to the west‚ to the south and east is the Red North Sea‚ Sudan is in the south‚ in the east is the gulf of Aqaba. It is located at 27 00 N longitude and 30 00 E latitude. The area of Egypt is 1‚001‚ 450 square kilometers of which 6‚000 square kilometers is water. The country’s main source of water is the Nile River. The country is made up of a desert plateau that is separated by the Delta and
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of the park. The 10 per cent of the area consists of grasslands. It houses around 110 tree species‚ 50 species of mammals‚ 580 bird species and 25 reptile species. The park is located between 29°25’ to 29°39’N latitude and 78°44’ to 79°07’E longitude.[8] The average altitude of the region ranges between 360 m (1‚181 ft) and 1‚040 m (3‚412 ft).[3] It has numerous ravines‚ ridges‚ minor streams and small plateaus with varying aspects and degrees of slopes A total of 488 different species of
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direction of the swell. ptolemy.jpg (28650 bytes) Statue of Ptolemy. Charts have aided mariners ever since the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy created the first world atlas in the second century A.D. The redoubtable Ptolemy even plotted latitude and longitude lines on his atlas’s 27 maps‚ though the farther one got from the known world centered on the Mediterranean‚ the dangerously less reliable they became. Even before Ptolemy‚ there were sailing directions -- the Greeks called them periplus or "circumnavigation"
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Eratosthenes Eratosthenes was a Greek multi-skilled man who lived from 276BC to 194BC and was born in Cyrene. What He Did He discovered that the earth was spherical by reading in a book that on the longest day of the year these two wells that were in two different cities (Syene and Alexandria) cast different shadows. At that point in time the Earth was thought to be flat. This didn’t make sense because the shadows should be the same length. He figured that this meant that the Earth was spherical
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sailors by telling them what direction the ship was going‚ and was invented by the Chinese. The map was invented by the Greco-Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemy‚ who wrote Geography around A.D. 150. This eight-volume book contained maps and the longitude and latitude of approximately 8‚000 places. It also contained instruction for how to make maps. Maps provide information of what countries and places there are in the world‚ which sailors can use to help guide them the way. Last but not least‚ the
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