Chapter 10 - Transboundary pollution page 120 Aim of this lesson To be able to describe one major pollution event affecting more than one country and examine the consequences of and responses to this event. View together ‘’It happened in Chernobyl’ Part 1 and Part 2 - discuss http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b11aWXkehtY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMdh2SZ5-k&feature=player_embedded Using - * Consequences in more than one country http://www.grida.no/
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10 URBAN ENVIRONMENT Suneel Pandey‚ Shaleen Singhal‚ Pragya Jaswal‚ and Manraj Guliani Great cities are planned and grow without any regard for the fact that they are parasites on the countryside‚ which must somehow supply food‚ water‚ air‚ and degrade huge quantities of wastes. —Eugene Odum Six to seven million people are added annually to urban India. At the beginning of this millennium‚ 285 million Indians lived in its nearly 4400 towns and cities (Census 2001)
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Effects of Pollution 1. Environment Degradation : Environment is the first casualty for increase in pollution weather in air or water. The increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere leads to smog which can restrict sunlight from reaching the earth. Thus‚ preventing plants in the process of photosynthesis. Gases like Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide can cause acid rain. Water pollution in terms of Oil spill may lead to death of several wildlife species. 2. Human Health : The decrease in quality
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The Role of Women in Religion The role of women in religious scripture dictates an inferior position in society. Beginning with the creation of Adam and then Eve‚ as his helpmate. Her purpose was that Adam would not be lonely. This origin provides the ground work for inequality of genders on the basis of religious scripture. The roles prescribed determined that women should be in a subordinate position to man. The female role and relationship with God is defined by the various books of the
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WILDLIFE Wildlife means all the flora and fauna‚ which are not domesticated by humans. It includes animals‚ plants and microorganisms. The term wild life generally gives the impression of large and ferocious animals living in the jungle or waters such as lions and tigers‚ crocodiles and rhinoceros. Wild life refers to any living organism in its natural habitat. It includes all plants‚ animals and microorganisms other than animals domesticated and cultivated plants. The majestic lion‚ the grateful
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Audra McFarland Mr. Bergmann Sophomore Honors P6 28th September 2016 Conservation What if I were to tell you that your way of life is at stake? If I told you that your casual cruising around town or your habit of just tossing your drink in the trash without dumping it out was causing major harm to our earth‚ would you be concerned? Today‚ our carbon emissions are skyrocketing so alarmingly fast‚ the atmosphere has not been this warm in 66 million years. The excess carbon has caused a five degree
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CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES The term “resource” means anything that we use from our environment to achieve our objective. For example‚ we require bricks‚ cement‚ iron‚ wood etc. to construct a building. All these items are called the resources for construction of building. Are source can be defined as „any natural or artificial substance‚ energy or organism‚ which is used by human being for its welfare. These resources are of two types: 1.Natural resources 2.Artificial resources CONSERVATION
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Religion is hardwired into humans. It provides an individual and/or group of people a framework to understand the world that they are living in and how to respond or behave to experiences. Furthermore‚ religion does not require ones belief in a high power or supernatural being. It just requires a belief in something that a group or individual deems sacred. Religion fills an essential role in society because it is the framework that groups of people use to understand the world around them. Every
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Conservation of Energy Lab Honors Physics December 9‚ 2014 Date Performed: December 5‚2014 Instructor: Mrs. Kelly I. Objective: Calculate the speed of the Bunny on release from the table II. Procedure: 1. Gather All Materials 2. Place the bunny turned in on itself on the ground (this enables the toy to launch itself upward by suction; elastic and potential energy). Do so 5 times 3. Measure the height traveled by the stopper using a meter stick per each trial. 4. Using the measurements
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SOC350 Midterm #1: CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION WITH RESPECT TO WEBER AND GIERYN Science and religion has an obvious conflict throughout the history of mankind. This conflict arouse a stimulation for some sociological discussions‚ as the reasons and timings behind such conflicts has been searched. Comparing Max Weber’s and Thomas Gieryn’s understanding of conflicts between science and religion‚ there are certain differences in terms of analyzing techniques and observation points. Before
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