Financial Management Read ‘Ocean Carriers’ and answer the following questions: Ocean Carriers uses a 9% discount rate. 1. Do you expect daily spot rate to increase or decrease next year? - The expected daily hire rates drives the daily spot rates higher. So we are expecting the higher daily spot rates under higher expected daily hire rates. 2. What factors drive average daily hire rates? - Demand in iron ore shipments‚ - World economy‚ strong economy in western countries will raise
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spreading mid-ocean ridge that produces broader and less rugged segments? -faster When you have Oceanic-Contintental convergance‚ which one becomes subducted? -oceanic The San Andreas Fault is what kind of boundary? -transform The areas where mantle plumes come to the surface are called what? -hotspots Much fluid basaltic lava erupts on the seafloor at mid-ocean ridges. Such eruptions pose little risk to humans because almost all of these occur at the bottom of the ocean. The island
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Ocean Waves A wave is a periodic disturbance in space and time‚ possibly transferring energy to or through a space-time region. Have you ever ridden a wave in the ocean? Ocean waves travel on the surface of the water. You can see them and you can feel them. As you swim through the water‚ you can even make your own waves. The winds cause waves on the surface of the ocean (and on lakes). The wind transfers some of its energy to the water‚ through friction between the air molecules and the water molecules
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“The acidification of the ocean today is bigger and faster than anything geologists can find in the fossil record over the past 65 million years” (Carl Zimmer). This is just an illustration regarding the tales of environmental degradation from carbon dioxide pollution in the ocean. The phenomenon of ocean acidification is imperative to understand; the reduction of essential pH levels over a protracted period of time is extremely harmful. In other words‚ ocean acidification can be measured by pH units
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The ocean is one of Earth’s most valuable natural resources. It provides food in the form of fish and shellfish—about 200 billion pounds are caught each year. It’s used for transportation—both travel and shipping. It provides a treasured source of recreation for humans. It is mined for minerals (salt‚ sand‚ gravel‚ and some manganese‚ copper‚ nickel‚ iron‚ and cobalt can be found in the deep sea) and drilled for crude oil. The ocean plays a critical role in removing carbon from the atmosphere and
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surface. It includes all five oceans the Arctic‚ Indian‚ Southern‚ Atlantic‚ and Pacific. In it There are many many types of fish and also some mammals. The oceans span wide and deep. There are also plants in the ocean. The ocean is a vast and mysterious place where we are still discovering many things about it everyday. The physical attributes of the ocean depend on which ocean you explore‚for example the Arctic ocean is very cold but the Pacific ocean is warm. In the ocean there is a deep portion and
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How will the technology advancements in deep sea oil drilling affect the ongoing competition for resources among countries? IR 310: Peace and conflict Studies November 25‚ 2013 Abstract: The goal of this paper is to identify the potential risks that may arise as technology advances are made in extracting natural resources. The focus point will be on deep sea drilling for oil. As the demand for oil increases due to the growth in the world’s population and economies‚ the search for oil
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------------------------------------------------- Frank Ocean Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Breaux; October 28‚ 1987)‚ better known by his stage name Frank Ocean‚ is an American singer-songwriter from New Orleans‚ Louisiana. Ocean’s early career was as a ghostwriter for artists such as Brandy‚ Justin Bieber‚ and John Legend. In 2010‚ he became a member of alternative hip hop collective OFWGKTA‚ and his debut mixtape‚ Nostalgia‚ Ultra‚ was released the following year to critical acclaim
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Homework on Ocean Floor Instructionon on how to download the movie online: Go to the link: http://www.learner.org/resources/series78.html# and click on the next to the “4. Sea Floor”. To avoid pop-up blocker‚ press CRTL key as you click on the If you click on the movie screen‚ you will get a full screen view. After watching the 30 minute movie on The Sea Floor‚ answer the following questions by typing in a separate sheet of paper. (As you watch the movie gather as much information
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An Ocean Habitat or sometimes refer to as a marine environment is a place in the ocean where plants and animals interact with the chemical and physical features of the environment. An Ocean habitat is a place where communities of organisms live. The three main ocean habitats of the ocean are the open water‚ the soft sandy to muddy bottom and the hard shore. Examples of ocean habitats are the coral reefs‚ the estuaries and the abyssal zone. Habitats can be classified in a number of ways in order
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