close to the ground‚ where temperatures are highest. During warm months the plants begin to grow rapidly and will develop flowers and seeds when temperatures climb above 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit).By providing an insulating layer‚ snowfall are advantageous for tundra plants during cold winter months. Climate In the arctic tundra there are two seasons: winter and summer. In the summer‚ the sun is present almost 24 hours a day. This sun however‚ only warms the tundra up to a range
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What Caused the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl was much more than an abnormal weather occurrence of wind and rain; It was actually the lack of rain. In ways farmers were hit the hardest because they lost all of their crops and everything on their farms. The Dust Bowl caused a bunch of problems in many different small towns and farms. Some families had to decide whether to move on away from their homes caused by the Dust Bowl or to stay and try to revive everything they had. There was nothing left in their
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world’s global temperature continues to raise the world will become drier‚ less rainfall will occur and farming families in Africa are going to suffer. The rainfall will decline in areas that need it most who are trying to reduce their debt by increasing over-sea trade; mainly through the production of cash crops which are crops that are sold for income rather than someone’s own food supply. Without a sustained amount of rainfall the crops will begin to fail which will be placing Africa’s food security
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No one can deny that car accident is huge problem nowadays. A car accident is part of an endless list of problems on the road. Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime‚ anywhere. In general‚ about twenty million people die or become injured due to car accidents each year nationwide. Among the car accidents‚ the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Then why are the car accidents happening? Actually there are many causes and effects of
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Unexpected approach On the day of January 15th 2010 the town of Green Bay‚ Wisconsin was witnessing one of its worst storms of the year. The snowfall was tumbling down‚ and the winds jolted you with their quick and frigid entrance. Crossing the street on a day like this could be a real struggle for anyone; however for an elderly man with a cane it is nearly impossible without any assistance. So the elderly man waited until one would approach him and kindly guide him across the street
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Central Congo Basin Moist Forests “The Congo Basin makes up one of the most important wilderness areas left on Earth. At 500 million acres‚ it is larger than the state of Alaska and stands as the world’s second largest tropical forest” (Congo Basin). The Amazon is the only moist tropical forest that is bigger than the Congo Basin moist forest. The Congo Basin moist forest is four times the size of France and contains about one fourth of the closed canopy forest left on Earth (Managing Congo Basin
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Specific objectives 1. Define crustal plates A crustal plate is a rigid layer of the Earth’s crust that is believed to drift slowly. 2. Name and locate the Caribbean adjacent plates. Plates adjacent to the Caribbean plate are South American plate which is located south of the Caribbean plate‚ North American plate which is located north of the Caribbean plate‚ Nazca plate which is locate west of the Caribbean plate and the Cocoa plate which is located south west of the Caribbean plate. 3. Distinguish
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Global warming affects many areas of the planet. Not only are plants and animals affected by the rising temperatures‚ but so are the intensity of storms. Global warming is believed to be responsible for numerous storms across the world intensifying. Global warming is believed to be causing more severe hurricanes‚ floods‚ and now monsoon season. As the temperatures across the globe continue to rise the intensity of the monsoon storms is continuing to build. If the temperatures continue to rise‚ the
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un-cohesive and unconsolidated‚ it means that they are more likely to break away and fall down under the force of gravity. As well as this‚ the absorbing capacity of the rock is significant‚ as when a rock that is easily saturated is combined with a heavy rainfall event‚ mass movement becomes very likely. This can be seen to be an essential factor which contributed to the Holbeck Hall landslide in June 1993. The rock that comprised the cliffs at Start Bay in Scarborough was mainly Boulder Clay. This rock
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sections and Sandy Allurion the river flats. The grass that is grown from these soils is Summer Rye Grass‚ Kikuyu and clover. The average annual rainfall is 1200mL the rain comes primarily in Autumn unlike Nowra which has a different rainfall pattern to Berry. The farm has received more than average in the last Autumn and if continues it should be above annual rainfall average. The main breed of cattle owned is Holstein Friesian they have 250 on the farm they also have two Jersey cows. The breeding techniques
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