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The biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be called the zone of life on Earth‚ a closed (apart from solar and cosmic radiation)‚ and self-regulating system.[1] From the broadest biophysiologicalpoint of view‚ the biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships‚ including their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere‚ hydrosphere‚ and atmosphere. The biosphere is postulated to have evolved‚ beginning through a process of biogenesis or biopoesis
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subducted Japan lies at a major triple junction of three major plates which interact in a complex and unpredictable way. The leading edge of the Pacific plate subducts beneath the westward moving Eurasian plate creating the worlds deepest known trench i.e. Marianas trench. In this same area the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Philippine plate. Factors that contributed to the vunerability: Off Sendai there is a very old oceanic crust which is cooler and denser‚ it was assumed that the crust would easily
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1. The science of biogeography is the description of distribution of life and the explanation of this description. The description is based on both time and space. This describes how things look and why they are there. It also looks to answer the question – are these features the same over time? Biogeography arose with the theory that life on earth is a non-random distribution. This is the most important observation leading to the field of biogeography. The study of biogeography includes many other
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Oceanography Test 1 Study Guide Chapter 1: Knowing the Ocean World An Ocean World • Ocean creatures provide 2% of humanity’s food • 1/3 of the world’s petroleum and natural gas are pumped from beneath the ocean floor • ~ 71% world is covered by water • Ocean – vast body of saline water that occupies the depressions of the earth’s surface • 97% of the water on or near the earth’s surface is contained in the ocean; less than 3% is held in land ice‚ groundwater‚ and freshwater
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The book Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman follows a paranoid schizophrenic teenager as he struggles through the obstacles of his mental illnesses. For the most part‚ the book is written in the first person perspective‚ although occasionally it strays into second person perspective. In some parts of the book‚ the teenagers real struggle with mental illness is described and illustrated‚ while in other parts of the book‚ an elaborate hallucination from the schizophrenia is played out. Throughout the
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INFORMATIVE ESSAY BY David Adeoso In this essay I am going to write about the ocean and all the amazing things about the ocean that some people might not know. Growing up I was never interested in the ocean or things like that but as I am starting to grow the world and the ocean are starting to become much more fascinating to me. There are many amazing things about the ocean and what lives in it some things that are amazing to me are that Earth is the only known planet or moon to have large
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TERRITORIAL CLAIMS BY THE PHILIPPINES 1. Sabah / North Borneo A majority of Filipinos everywhere are wondering what this Sabah claim is all about. The Philippine history books‚ Malaysian’s probably too‚ have not mentioned about the Philippines’ stake on the northern part of the island of Borneo. On the other hand‚ the Malaysians maybe furious that there are a lot of attention now being focused to that part of the Malaysian federation to which they believe was theirs since
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becomes a temporary ark on which the Patel family take the animals to be sold in Canada. But it’s struck by a storm as dramatic as anything ever put on the screen‚ and Pi becomes a combination of Noah‚ Crusoe‚ Prospero and Job. Alone above the Mariana Trench‚ the deepest part of the Pacific‚ he’s an orphan captaining a lifeboat with only a zebra‚ a hyena‚ a female orang-utan and the gigantic Bengal tiger Richard Parker for company. Life of Pi: watch the trailer - video Link to video: Life of Pi:
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Jaesung Lee Geography 1 Professor Thomas Orf Chapter 14 Questions 1) The first evidence Wegner was able to find was the remarkable number of close affinities of geologic features on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. He found the continental margins of the subequatorial portions of Africa and South America fit together with jigsaw-on-like precision. He also determined that the petrologic records on both sides of the Atlantic show many distributions- such as ancient coal deposits-that would
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