The small city of Cairns may not be well-known but its claim to fame is that it is the doorstep to visiting The Great Barrier Reef. I’m excited to be here because I planned to go diving along the outer reef wall. Diving the Reef is one of the top site to explore for divers worldwide. As we walked off the plane we experienced the feeling of the warm tropical weather. It was muggy and we could see all around the lush green vegetation. Our transportation into the city was just a few minutes. We
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in shallow areas‚ such as the Australia’s eastern coast‚ also known as the “The Great Barrier Reef”. The reef covers an area over 300‚000 square kilometers. Amazingly enough‚ the Great Barrier Reef also covers wide range of ocean depth. People consider that the coral reef is the most complex ecosystem on Earth. Abiotic Components There are two major abiotic factors‚ Temperature and Sunlight. The Great Barrier Reef is an aquatic ecosystem‚ in which it has more abiotic factors. The additional abiotic
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The Great Barrier Reef | Koh Yi Shing 2013.03.19 | The world’s largest coral reef system‚ The Great Barrier Reef‚ is shrinking at an incredibly rapid rate (Environmental Threats). Over the past 27 years‚ it has lost approximately half of its coral (Happening to GBR). This is due to many reasons; it includes oil spills‚ poor water quality‚ shipping‚ climate change etc. (Environmental Threats). One of the main reasons is overfishing (Environmental Threats). For example‚ the species of Crown-of-thorns
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BMO Internet Security Final Project Paper University of Toronto SCS 2115 Professor: Dr. Ken K. Wong By: Kevin Fernando 13/06/2010 The semantic web is a vision created and promoted by Tim-Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium. In his article the Semantic Web in Scientific American (2001) Berners-Lee explains that The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one‚ in which information is given well-defined meaning‚ better enabling computers and people to
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Semantics In programming language theory‚ semantics is the field concerned with the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages. It does so by evaluating the meaning of syntactically legal strings defined by a specific programming language‚ showing the computation involved. In such a case that the evaluation would be of syntactically illegal strings‚ the result would be non-computation. Semantics describes the processes a computer follows when executing a program in that
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Effect of Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef Introduction The Great Barrier Reef is located in North Eastern Australia off the coast of Queensland. It is world renowned for its stunning scenery and its flora and fauna diversity‚ it has also been acknowledged as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Great Barrier Reef stretches across 344400km2 and includes thousands of individual reefs and hundreds of islands which are occupied by around 600 types of hard and soft coral‚ around 1625 varieties
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The Great Barrier Reef is located off the east coast of the Queensland mainland‚ as shown in figure 1. It is listed on The World Heritage Site as a natural site. The Great Barrier Reef is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and stretches over 3000km of the Queensland coast. More than 2 million people visit this site each year for the scenic view and the thousands of different species that live in it. The Reef is affected by many threats due to coral bleaching‚ litter‚ pollution‚ global warming
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Charles Darwin was quoted in 1842 describing the Belize Barrier Reef as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies" (Encyclopedia). This description still holds true today. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System‚ which includes the Belize submarine shelf and its barrier reef is the world’s second largest barrier reef system and the largest reef complex in the Atlantic-Caribbean area (Programme-wo‚ 2009). What makes a reef like the Belize Barrier Reef system so special is that coral reefs are the most
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Rowan Jacobsen’s article in Outside magazine‚ Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016)‚ is titled the complete death and passing of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Jacobsen says the famous Barrier Reef passed away in 2016 at 25 million years old. He says the Barrier Reef is the largest living structure; stretching 1‚400 miles long‚ 2‚900 individual reefs‚ and 1‚050 islands. This grand reef harbors thousands of species. The Barrier Reef is formed by corals‚ tiny anemone-like animals‚ that
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Explain 2 types of barriers to entry which can prevent potential competitors from entering an industry Monopoly and oligopoly both are types of barriers to entry which can prevent potential competitors from entering an industry A barrier to entry is anything that prevents entry when entry is socially beneficial A monopoly possesses high barriers to entry. This deters other firms from entering the market and thus allows the monopoly to keep their status as a single seller of unique product
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