Joseph Yoon Chapter 11 Fossil Fuels: combustible deposit found with Earth’s curst * Composed of remnants of prehistoric organisms that existed millions of years ago * Deposits are usually no older than 400 million years of age * Nonrenewable resources: finite‚ limited supply * Types: coal‚ oil natural gas (methane) * Lignite (lowest quality) * Subbituminous coal * Bituminous coal (sedimentary rock) * Anthracite (highest quality- metamorphic rock) Coal Reserves
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Great Apes as Food This article talks about the love for great apes meat in Central Africa. Although some religions forbidden ape meat as food but others like to consume the meat and they actually prefer it from the other meats. There are many reasons why central Africans like Consuming great apes as food other than the taste. In Some parts of central Africa people believe that eating Apes as food would bring strength and power that these great apes possess. Medicine plays a role in encouraging
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Jacob Mamiye 12/6/2014 Anthropology Professor Mwaria Social Organization‚ Characteristics and Behaviors of the Great Apes 1 Compare and contrast the social organization of the great apes (chimps‚ bonobos‚ and gorilla’s orangutans) and savannah baboons. What accounts for these differences? The social organization of baboons is one of the most intensely studied of the primates. There is only one defined level of social organization in savanna baboons‚ the stable group of several
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CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) CITES is an international agreement between governments which aims to protect wild plants and animals and to ensure that international trade does not threaten their survival. Although many of traded wildlife species are not endangered‚ the existence of CITES agreement would safeguard these resources end ensure their trade is sustainable. The trade of wildlife species could be in the form of live animals
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foreseeable future‚ this planet is the only home we’ve got. It would be useful to know‚ then‚ whether it will continue to be habitable. Sometimes contemplating the future just means wondering whether it will snow tomorrow‚ or whether it will be a hot summer this year. We can think bigger‚ though. What will the climate be like a hundred years from now‚ or a thousand or a million? Will the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere ever reach an upper limit and start to diminish? Will our planet ultimately end up
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regulating the debts of agricultural communities on behalf of the banks. Because these men also traded with debts‚ they could be called the first brokers. A common misbelief is that in late 13th centuryBruges commodity traders gathered inside the house of a man called Van der Beurze‚ and in 1309 they became the "Brugse Beurse"‚ institutionalizing what had been‚ until then‚ an informal meeting‚ but actually‚ the family Van der Beurze had a building in Antwerp where those gatherings occurred;[7] the Van der
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Apes vs Monkeys Today I will be comparing apes to monkeys. I am going to be comparing them in 3 different ways.Their traits‚diet‚and habitat.They both are very similar to each other are also very different. When it comes to traits the ape and monkey have more differences than they do similarities.Apes are large primates and are usually larger than monkeys.Apes do not have a tail while a monkey has a tail. Apes are also considered to be more intelligent than monkeys. Another big difference
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Picture Book Evaluation — Ape Picture books target a wide audience and may be read in different ways. A picture book is a story told in words and pictures. Each makes an important contribution to the way the story is told‚ the meaning created. Pictures convey important codes‚ such as symbolic‚ written and technical codes. Symbolic codes reinforce readers to consider various meanings for a single image. Written and technical codes further the readers’ understanding of how and why picture books are
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On Planet Drosnin‚ a werewolf and a young boy must defeat a wicked dictator destined to take over the planet with magic plants that have the ability to create fantastic powers. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: HECTOR (50) a malevolent dictator on the Planet Drosnin‚ wants to take over the planet with magical plants that grow deep in the green jungle. He runs factories that pollute the planet. He enslaves children and Indigenous Warriors and forces them to work at the factories. It’s up to werewolf JACOB (50) to
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