TOWARDS GREENER AMRITA In India‚ Mother Earth –Bhoomatha is considered sacred.We worship our Mother Earth and therefore it should be well conserved and protected.Mother Earth is a home to all living beings‚we don’t litter our home‚then why do we litter our earth?. There is nothing called waste in this universe.It is a misplaced resource‚taking the example from the nature itself-the trees absorb all the nutrients from the mother earth and shed their leaves back to the nature.These leaves acts
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Life On Earth Chapter VII: Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities Introduction Chapter VII: Biodiversity Hotspot and Conservation Priorities Despite that biodiversity losses are occurring everywhere on Earth‚ some areas which are both extraordinarily rich in life forms and particularly threatened from a number of sources have been identified. The principal behind the concept of biodiversity hotspot comes from the fact that despite that all ecosystems on Earth should be
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August 8‚ 2013 Peopling of the Earth The earliest full human species known today lived in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago. Early humans survived by hunting and gathering. With an economy based on hunting and gathering‚ there is a great deal of space needed for just a small community. Before migrating majorly‚ they migrated to the Levant‚ in about 25‚000 years ago a global freeze happened and it wiped them out completely. They would then later end up migrating to the Middle East from Africa
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Atmosphere Homework Describe the composition of the air Air is a mixture of gases and aerosols that compose the atmosphere surrounding Earth. The primary gases of air include nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). Trace gases and aerosols make up the remaining 1% of air. The trace gases include the noble gases argon‚ neon‚ helium‚ krypton and xenon‚ hydrogen and the greenhouse gases. The aerosols are solid or liquid particles having diameters in the region of 0.001 to 10 microns‚ and include dust
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Earth Summit International meetings aiming at drawing up measures for the environmental protection of the world. The first summit took place in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil‚ in June 1992. Treaties were made to combat global warming and protect biodiversity (the latter was not signed by the USA). The second Earth Summit was held in New York in June 1997 to review progress. The meeting agreed to work towards a global forest convention with the aim of halting the destruction of tropical and old-growth forests
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Kristel Mae Tagle Bs BIOLOGY III Planet Earth Earth is the third planet from the sun. The place where many organisms exist‚ enhance with the beauty of nature. Packed with rich biodiversity‚ streams and rivers. Have you seen this place before? Maybe yes‚ but for how long? How much it matter to us if it is lost? What can we do to save them? Those are questions that that will hopefully strike our nerves. In this new millennium‚ many changes have occurred that altered the condition of the nature
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There are many different layers within the Earth. The core is at center of the Earth. The Earth’s core takes up sixteen percent of Earth’s volume‚ containing thirty-three percent of its Mass ..Pressure rises steadily inside the earth because of the weight of overlying rock. Therefore ‚the Pressure at the outer boundary of the core reaches 1.37 million atmospheres‚ 3.7 million Atmospheres. The core is made mostly of iron and nickel and possibly smaller amounts of lighter elements including sulfur
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crust). The lower mantle runs slowly‚ at a rate of a few centimeters per year. 3. Core: The Earth has an iron-nickel core that is about 2‚100 miles in radius. At the core-mantle boundary‚ composition changes. Seismic waves suggest this material is of a very high density (10-13 g/cm3)‚ which can only correspond to a configuration of metals rather than rock. The presence of a magnetic field around the earth also indicates a molten metallic core. Unlike the crust and the mantle‚ we don’t have any samples
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soil will vary geographically and at different soil depths. Moisture content changes seasonally‚ varies according to the nature of the sub layers of earth‚ and the depth of the permanent water table. Since soil and water are generally more stable at deeper strata‚ it is recommended that the ground rods be placed as deep as possible into the earth‚ at the water table if possible. Also‚ ground rods should be installed where there is a stable temperature‚ i.e. below the frost line. For a grounding
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direction with height that turn storms severe. • Thunderstorms with rotating updrafts are called super cells commonly producing tornadoes. animation – audio http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/Domain/7724/animations/animations glencoe earth science/thunderstorm_stages_332.swf • Stages of thunderstorms: Cumulus stage(no rain‚ mainly updrafts) ‚ Mature stage(updrafts and downdrafts caused by rain)‚ Dissipation stage (lingering downdrafts). http://my.hrw.com/sh2/sh07_10/student/tabpages/hq7c/c24/s02/vc04/hq7c_c24s02_vc04fs
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