In my experiences that followed this particular adventure‚ I found that not everything is the same as you see it. I was young‚ six and a half years old‚ and back then‚ I thought I was so grown up. Its funny how the older we get‚ the younger we feel we are. But I think six is a pretty reasonable age to enjoy an adventure like this one. Buying a dinghy doesnt seem like the most exciting thing in the world but back then it was‚ when I would imagine myself as a pirate sailing off and discovering treasures
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A desert is a landscape or region of land that is very dry because of low rainfall amounts (precipitation)‚ often has little coverage by plants‚ and in which streams dry up unless they are supplied by water from outside areas.[1] Deserts can also be described as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation.[2] Desert plants must have special adaptations to survive with this little water. Deserts take up about one third (33%) of the Earth’s land surface.[3] Bottomlands
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Australian Desert 1. The Tropic of Capricorn passes thru the center of Australia. This means the country lies close enough to trade wind latitudes for the prevailing winds to be from the southeast. These bring maritime conditions‚ with abundant rain‚ to the coast of New South Wales and Queensland. 2. Inland lies the Great Dividing Range‚ a mountain range running the length of the country parallel to the east coast. 3. Lands to the west of the mountains lie in a rain shadow. 4. 40% of Australia’s
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considered the world’s driest desert because the extreme cold freezes water vapour out of the air. Annual snowfall on the polar plateau is equivalent to less than 5 cm of rain. A desert is defined as an area of low and irregular rainfall‚ no permanent surface water and no substantial vegetation. Yes‚ because there is very little rainfall or moisture in the air‚ because most of the water stays frozen. Almost the whole continent is Desert‚ the largest contiguous desert on earth‚ and one of the dryest
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thousands of Chicagoans live in what’s known as a food desert. A food desert is in an area of focus that is short on access to fresh meat and produce. These areas are usually over populated with packaged and processed foods‚ which are not always healthy. They also have a significant amount junk that you can easily find in convenience stores and fast food restaurants. What exactly qualifies a neighborhood to be part of a food desert? Food deserts usually have a bunch of blocks without a corner grocery
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Guano islands Along the Peruvian coast is a string of rocky islands and peninsulas that are home to guanay cormorants‚ boobies‚ and pelicans. The birds leave the islands every morning to feed on the fish‚ especially anchovies‚ that are plentiful in the Humboldt Current. They return in the afternoon. There is no vegetation on the islands‚ so they build their nests out of guano and feathers‚ adding a new layer every year. By the time Europeans first saw the islands‚ the guano was more than 100 feet
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The Sahara Desert is located in the northern portion of Africa and covers over 3‚500‚000 square miles (9‚000‚000 sq km) or roughly 10% of the continent (image). It is bounded in the east by the Red Sea and it stretches west to the Atlantic Ocean. To the north‚ the Sahara Desert’s northern boundary is the Mediterranean Sea‚ while in the south it ends at the Sahel‚ an area where the desert landscape transforms into a semi-arid tropical savanna. Since the Sahara Desert makes up nearly 10% of the African
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h e S a h a r a D e s e r t The Sahara Desert is the largest hot and dry desert in the world. It is located in North Africa; it covers 9 million square kilometres and covers over twelve countries‚ some of the countries include; Morocco‚ Algeria Libya‚ Tunisia‚ Egypt‚ Mauritania‚ Mali‚ Niger‚ Chad‚ and Sudan. Most of the Sahara Desert is located at Algeria. The Sahara Desert receives less than 40cm of rain per year‚ the sand dunes in the Sahara Desert reach up to about 180 metres. It is Atlantic
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Sahara Desert The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest desert area. The word Sahara comes from the Arabic word sahra’‚ meaning desert. It extends from the Africa’s Atlantic Ocean side to the Red Sea and consists of the countries of Morocco‚ Algeria‚ Tunisia‚ Libya‚ Egypt‚ Mauritania‚ Mali‚ Niger‚ Chad‚ and Sudan. It is about 5‚200 miles long. Overall‚ the Sahara Desert covers 3‚500‚000 square miles. The geography of the desert is varied. In the west‚ the Sahara is rocky with varied elevation
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Stranded In the middle of a derelict‚ isolated village‚ torrential rain hammered down. The midnight moon hovered over the rough snowy mountains. Werewolves howled louder than the foghorn in the distance. We were marooned and stranded feeling anxious about what our next move was going to be. It felt like a life or death moment. This sought of excitement seemed to be only in novels‚ not real life. We really needed to act quickly to stand a chance of survival. It was happening to us and our chances
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