Amphipod Reburrowing Assignment 1. What is the problem or the question to be solved? The question that was presented was how the pollution in the water is effecting the benthic organisms that have limited movement if at all and they can’t escape the pollution around them. 2. What is the hypothesis that was tested? The hypothesis was that if the contaminated sediment in the water affected the Amphipods burrowing‚ then the reburrowing time for L. Plumulosus amphipods should increase. 3. What are
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Northeastern United States‚ with lesser impacts in the Southeastern and Midwestern states and Eastern Canada‚ in late October 2012. Sandy‚ the eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season‚ was a Category 2 storm at its peak intensity. While it was a Category 1 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States‚ the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter with winds spanning 1‚100 miles (1‚800 km)).[4][5] Preliminary estimates of losses
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use. Antonia and her father show grandma and Jimmy where they sleep and feel empathy for the conditions they live in as they sleep on the floor with a few warm blankets they made themselves out of animal skin. It is a week before Christmas and the storm got bad that Jake‚ Burden’s worker‚ could not go and buy the Christmas gifts. So‚ Jimmy wanted to give Yulka and Antonia books with picture so they can improve their English‚ but since Jake could not go a buy the gift he decided to make the books himself
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Palm Springs‚ California has been a vacation home and party city for many years now‚ despite the heat people still flock over here to vacation and heres why! The name of the town comes from the Hot Springs found in the Indian Canyon. The ancestors of this lovely town are known as Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Today the town is split up among the natives and everyone else. There are a lot of areas where the land is referred to as “Indian Land’ and they have full rights to do whatever they
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English 100 #3221 17 May 2007 Hurricanes A hurricane is one of the most severe storms the country has to endure. A hurricane can easily damage millions of dollars of property and even kill anyone in their paths. A hurricane is a local name for tropical cyclones in the Caribbean‚ Nnorth Atlantic and Eeastern Nnorthern Pacific. On average there are about six hurricanes in a season and of those about 2 reach become a major hurricane. Hurricane season starts in June and ends in November. A hurricane
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Oklahoma‚ had been cautioned that there would probably be a very bad storm but no one expected how early the storm would form (Worrall‚ 2015). The residents of Moore had about 36 minutes to prepare for a mile-wide tornado that crushed the Oklahoma City suburb‚ killing two dozen people. The National Weather Service issued its first warning for residents to seek shelter at 2:40 p.m. on May 20‚
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powerful and violent storms that have strong winds. Storms are known to be hurricanes when they reach 74 mile per hour. Hurricanes storms start over warm sea water near the equator and come with strong winds‚ flash floods‚ mudslides‚ and huge waves. Hurricanes come with different names depending where the location it occurred. Hurricane storms are called hurricanes‚ if they start over the Caribbean Sea‚ the Northeast Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean; whereas‚ storms are called tropical
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civilizations. The Mayan storm god was named Hunraken. A god considered evil by the Taino people of the Caribbean was called Huracan” (noaa.gov 2005). Ready.gov describes a hurricane as “a type of tropical cyclone or severe tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean‚ Caribbean Sea‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.” It further states that they are accompanied by thunderstorms and spin counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. These storms can cause damage on very
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PAGASA Philippine Atmospheric‚ Geophysical‚ & Astronomical Services Administration. Government agency for weather forecasting‚ flood control‚ astronomical observations‚ and time service. TROPICAL CYCLONE A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center‚ strong winds‚ and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. Tropical cyclones are typically between 100 and 4‚000 km (62 and 2‚485 mi) in diameter. A cyclone is turned into a hurricane
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trauma to not only humans‚ but also animals. The dust bowl was a huge dust storm that covered states such as Kansas‚Texas‚ western Oklahoma‚ eastern Colorado‚ and New Mexico. Things such as previous dust storms‚ poor land‚ and low precipitation. All of these resulted in one huge dust storm that killed many. The Dust Bowl was not only one big dust storm out of nowhere; but it was a more severe storm from preceding storms. “And not once or twice; but over and over for the better part of the decade;
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