The Great Continent of Africa Some people view the world through a single lens. Our experiences and beliefs impact our behaviors unconsciously‚ which is known as a bias. A stereotype is a widely held idea or belief that tends to be oversimplified about a particular group of people‚ country‚ or person based merely on physical traits or characteristics. Stereotypes can be formed from a cognitive perspective; we simply categorize information about types of people instead of considering information about
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Notes | | | 9 | 6 | Research Reseources | 11 | Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem‚ biome‚ or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Greater biodiversity implies greater health. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats‚ tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions support fewer species. Rapid environmental changes typically cause extinctions. One estimate is
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The freshwater biome | A lake at Acadia National Park‚ Maine. | Freshwater is defined as having a low salt concentration — usually less than 1%. Plants and animals in freshwater regions are adjusted to the low salt content and would not be able to survive in areas of high salt concentration (i.e.‚ ocean). There are different types of freshwater regions: * Ponds and lakes * Streams and rivers * WetlandsPonds and lakes These regions range in size from just a few square meters to thousands
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Sierra Leone’s site is in Western Africa on the coast‚ bordering the Atlantic Ocean. In relation to situation Guinea is to the north and northeast of Sierra Leone‚ and Liberia is to the south and southeast. Its neighbor‚ Liberia‚ in recent events has spread the fatal disease of Ebola to Sierra Leone. Ebola is a disease of humans and other primates caused by an Ebola virus. Typically‚ Sierra Leone has about four regions. They are the Coastal Guinean Mangroves‚ the Wooded Hill Country‚ an Upland
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outside of Lisbon in Portugal. Religion The ascending order of religious view in Rio are as follow.. Catholic 60.71% ‚Protestant 17.65% ‚Irreligious 13.33% ‚Spiritist 3.44% ‚Umbandist 0.72% Jewish 0.4% Climate Rio has a tropical savanna climate that closely borders a tropical monsoon climate according to the Köppen climate classification‚ and is often characterized by long periods of heavy rain from December to March .[ Clouds under the statue of Christ: one of Brazil’s most known images in the
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Life History of Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Felidae Panthera onca (Linnaeus‚ 1758) Kala Rene John BIO 1301 Biology of Animals Laboratory Fall 2013 Professor Jerry L. Farris Arkansas State University General Appearance Panthera onca is the largest feline in the New World (Seymour 1989). The felid is closely related to the leopard (Panthera pardus) in most senses but differs in many areas such as size. P. onca has a larger average body size‚ approximately 1.12 m to 1
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What are the major abiotic characteristics of the biome? · How do these characteristics affect the animals‚ plants‚ and their resources living in the environment? · Where in the world does this biome occur? What is special about the location(s) of this biome‚ on the planet‚ that causes it to have these temperature and precipitation patterns For the Intraspecific Competition Graph
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Fauna of Asia is all the animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands. Since there is no natural biogeographic boundary in the west between Europe and Asia‚ the term "fauna of Asia" is somewhat elusive. Asia is the eastern part of the Palearctic ecozone (which in turn is part of the Holarctic)‚ and its South-Eastern part belongs to the Indomalaya ecozone (previously called the Oriental region). Asia shows a notable diversity of habitats‚ with significant variations in rainfall‚ altitude
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entire planet. One of the primary causes of global environment change is tropical deforestation. According to the World Car-free Network‚ an international network that coordinates the actions of car-free advocates from around the world‚ cars and trucks account for about fourteen percent of global carbon emissions‚ while most analysts attribute upwards of fifteen percent to deforestation; this means that deforestation in tropical rainforests add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum of cars
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A Temperate Deciduous Forest is one of many biomes in the world. The biome has its own set of location‚ climate‚ and type of wildlife.The Temperate Deciduous Forest is found in almost every continent on the earth. Its climate is in the temperature range‚ hence its name. But the wildlife is unique in its own way in this biome. Temperate Deciduous Forest is found in all of the continents except Africa and Antarctica. It covers almost 50% of the United States is covered by the Temperate Deciduous Forest
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