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    Iroquois Culture

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    Many stories have been created‚ told and passed down through generations about how the earth came to be. Some of these stories have not only differences‚ but also similarities. African and Iroquois cultures seem on the surface to have nothing in common‚ especially because they are from different parts of the world. However‚ they both share fundamental values. The myths “The Golden Chain” from Africa and “The World on the Turtle’s Back” from the Iroquois culture‚ are similar in the fact that they

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    Birthdays‚ Open-House Day‚ Mother’s Day‚ Valentine’s Day‚ Father’s Day and so on‚ but how many of us have heard about ’Earth Day’? What is Earth Day? The first ’Earth Day’ was celebrated on 22 April 1970 in America. The Americans called on all the people on earth to take care of the earth. They wanted the people to use the forests‚ rivers‚ mountains and earth carefully so that the earth will remain useful to our children‚ grandchildren‚ great grandchildren and the many generations to come. They felt

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    Aborigines have for the land and their culture. Traditional Aborigines believe the earth‚ like the sky‚ always existed and was the home of supernatural beings. At the beginning of time the earth looked like a featureless‚ desolate plain. Nothing existed on the surface. The earth was covered in eternal darkness as the sun and moon were still slumbering under the earth’s cold crust. Only beneath the surface of the earth did life already exist in the form of thousands of supernatural beings which lay

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    gravity affects tides on the earth. The sun and moon together pull on the earth’s oceans in different directions to create tides. But there are several other factors that complicate this process. Friction is the earth’s rotation and axis tilt on the sun and moon’s gravitational pull on the earth. This forces push on the earth’s atmosphere‚ creating high tides and low tides. The gravity of the moon wraps around the earth like an oval. The effect is so mild that parts of the earth are misplaced in more

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    Chapter 1 Lecture Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology Eleventh Edition An Introduction to Geology Tarbuck and Lutgens © 2014 Pearson Education‚ Inc. The Science of Geology • Geology is the science that pursues an understanding of planet Earth • Physical geology examines Earth materials and seeks to understand the many processes that operate on our planet • Historical geology seeks an understanding of the origin of Earth and its development through time © 2014 Pearson Education‚ Inc

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    Astronomy 101 18 August 2011 Research Paper Earth’s Atmosphere and Interior Planet Earth‚ It’s our home in the universe. It’s also the birthplace of intelligent life and astronomy. In order to better understand our universe we must first understand our planet and planetary system of which we reside. By understanding Earth’s properties we can get a better grasp of the rest of our solar system. Earth is the best studied of all the terrestrial planets and also where our study of astronomy begins

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    APES Chapter 4 outline 1st period Notes Key Ideas: Earth is characterized by patterns of temperature and percipitation.This is driven by Earths rotation‚ heating of the earth by the sun‚ and earths geographic features. · Explain the forces that drive gloabal circulation patterns and how those patterns determine weather and climate: Unequal heating of the Earth by the Sun‚ atmospheric convection currents‚ the rotation of the Earth and the Coriolis effect‚ Earth’s orbit around the sun on a tilted

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    myth‚ Earth was only the second element created. In both the Grecian and Hebrew stories‚ Earth comes from nothing or a “void.” In the Maya myths‚

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    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. The diagram in figure 1 shows that it made no sense for only one

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    processes changed the population of organisms? The earth has been changing since the time it was created‚ so it’s quite easy to see how this has changed the things living on it. For example earthquakes changing the crust of the earth. The earth changing and affecting the population would be comparable to drawing a blue circle then drawing red on top of it. Of course the color changes‚ and can’t go back to how it was. There are many causes of the earth changing‚ natural disasters and the extinction of

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