Earth Space Science Mid-Term Essay Questions 1. Describe the three types of map projections. How are they made and which is the best for which application? 2. You see lumps of ice the size of meatballs falling from the sky. What form of precipitation are you seeing? Explain how it formed. What proof do scientist have that it formed this way? 3. What do the inner planets have in common? What is one unique characteristic of each planet? Explain your answer. 4. Define apparent magnitude
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movie "After Earth" directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Smith’s movie is about a military father and his teenage son. One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth‚ Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family‚ ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son‚ Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft‚ they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father
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senseless to their own state of distress. The earth shaking earth quake of 8th October‚ proved the mendacity (falsehood) of the idea. The nation witnessed the worst natural disaster on the 8th of October when an earth quake of the intensity of 7.6 was recorded on the rector scale. It shattered the nation. In the federal capital the Margalla towers were razed to the ground. The northern areas and parts of N. W. F.P. were virtually eaten up by the cruel earth. A whole generation of people was annihilated
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kids ‘cause of their ignorance. How‚ how‚ how has the world come to this stage‚ can we break free from this evil filled cage? Is it possible to change the whole Earth? Just start over and give the world a rebirth. Back when money didn’t exist‚ back when the strongest weapon was your fist. Back when u cared more for others‚ back when every guy you knew were your brothers. I know this probably sounds absurd‚ but just like a book starts with that one word. Maybe we can start it really small
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The Dynamic Crust‚ Earthquakes and the Earth’s Interior Why is the Earth’s crust described as being dynamic? Crust- solid rock outer zone of Earth The crust is part of the lithosphere. The Earth’s crust is dynamic which means constantly changing. Earthquakes Volcanoes Crustal movements along fault zones Other evidence indicates that parts of the Earth’s crust have been moving to different locations for billions of years. Describe pieces of evidence that suggest minor changes in the Earth’s
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<center><b>What is the evidence for our knowledge of the internal structure of the Earth?</b></center><br><br>As we enter the twenty first century we are beginning to learn more and more about the composition of the Earth. Early predictions have thrown up some rather strange and peculiar thoughts as to what is making up our Earth‚ but now day¡¦s scientists can be confident that the Earth is made up of what they think. As from experiments and other sources of information a picture to what is really
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The concept of a spherical Earth dates back to ancient Greek philosophy from around the 6th century BC‚ but remained a matter of philosophical speculation until the 3rd century BC when Hellenistic astronomy established the spherical shape of the earth as a physical given. The Hellenistic paradigm was gradually adopted throughout the Old World during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. A practical demonstration of Earth’s sphericity was achieved by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano’s expedition’s
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The Good Earth was written by Pearl S. Buck‚ an American novelist and writer‚ who spent most of her life in Zhenjiang‚ China. Growing up in China‚ Buck was exposed to lives of both the poor and the wealthy. She saw that the attitudes between the two status levels were very different. The poor felt they were only entitled to what they worked for‚ while the wealthy felt that they were entitled to anything they wished. The main character in Buck’s novel‚ Wang Lung‚ was raised in a poor home; however
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Sea turtles have played critical roles in both ocean and beach/dune ecosystems for millennia. However‚ humans‚ both intentionally and unintentionally‚ have posed a major threat to the future sustainability of their species‚ especially in the last several decades. The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is the world’s most endangered sea turtle‚ classified by the ICNU as critical endangered since 1996. ("Lepidochelys Kempii (Atlantic Ridley‚ Gulf Ridley‚ Kemp’s Ridley‚ Mexican Ridley)”). The worldwide female
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Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is about Axel‚ his uncle‚ Professor Lidenbrock‚ and their guide‚ Hans‚ traveling to the center of the earth through a volcano. Even though they never reached the center‚ they did discover several things. The story began when Professor Lidenbrock brought home an old manuscript. He and his nephew Axel discovered that the manuscript was written by a famous Icelandic alchemist during the 16th century. They find it says that if they enter a certain
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