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    Bibliography: A.E.Gill‚ 1980. Some simple solutions for heat induced tropic circulation. Quart.J.R.Met.SOC‚ 106(1)‚ pp. 447-462. Alan Strahler‚ A. S.‚ 1996. Global Wind and Pressure Patterns. In: Physical Geography Science and Systems of the Human Environment. USA: Ruttle‚ Shaw‚ & Wetherill‚ Inc.‚ pp. 131-132. Alan Strahler

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    . It differs from the transplantation of larger trees in arboriculture‚ and from the lower cost but slower and less reliable distribution of tree seeds. In silviculture the activity is known as reforestation‚ or afforestation‚ depending on whether the area being planted has or has not recently been forested. Tree planting is grounded in forest science‚ and if performed properly can result in the successful regeneration of a deforested area. Reforestation is the commercial logging industry’s answer

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    At least 42 million acres of tropical forest are lost each year‚ an area the size of Washington State. This equals about 100 acres a minute. • An estimated 50‚000 species of plants and animals‚ mostly plants and invertebrates and mostly in the tropics‚ are condemned to extinction every year‚ an average of about 140 a day. The forests of today are comprised of 50% boreal (mainly northern conifers)‚ 44% tropical and 3% temperate areas. Most of the original temperate forests have been cleared so

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    whole process took multiple days with multiple people working one one tree‚ and the number of calories gained from this dough So why didn’t the Papua New Guineans grow wheat? Because they couldn’t. Papua New Guinea is right in the middle of the tropics‚ where there are no seasons that wheat needs in order to grow. Having wheat allowed the Fertile Crescent to have easy‚ regular meals that they could store for 3-5

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    often migrates on cold-front winds. They have a hooked beak that allows it to strangle its prey. Sometimes females may lay 1-6 eggs. Peregrine falcons hatch after 29-33 days of their egg being laid. The peregrine ranges from arctic tundra to the tropics. The peregrine has a very large

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    EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC ELEMENTS ON LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION SALAMI‚ Saheed Ayodeji University of Ilorin‚ Ilorin‚ Nigeria. INTRODUCTION Climatic elements have direct effect on the system of animal production‚ body physiology and animal behaviour‚ feed supply and quality‚ proliferation of pests and parasites as well as preservation of animal products (Samson et al.‚ 2011) A number of climatic elements such as temperature‚ rainfall‚ humidity‚

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    Notes on digestion

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    ‚ if all crab were killed ? The number of larvae would increase and the population of fish would decrease as their food source would be missing. (d)What do the arrow between the organism represent? They represent the flow of energy from one tropic level to another. It means ’eaten by’. The diagram below shows the transverse section of two parts of plant. A 
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    Chapter II Research Body Chalk- is a soft‚ white‚ porous sedimentary rock‚ a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores. It is common to find chert or flint nodules embedded in chalk. Chalk can also refer to other compounds including magnesium silicate and calcium sulfate. Chalk has greater resistance

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    It was a hot summer day. As I went to the back of my grandparent’s house with Alexis‚ my little sister‚ to see and play on the beach‚ in St. Lucia. It all began as I stepped off the porch of our beach house‚ I was reached by a beautiful and amazing sight‚ from which my eyes longed to see. I felt the sand squish slowly through my toes as I gaily walk down the shoreline of the outer banks. There was a unique shade of green on the land. It was soft but yet silky as I bent to touch it. It smelt herbaceous

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    EXPERIMENT-1 Pressure-Temperature Relationship for Steam OBJECT: The objective of this experiment is to determine the relationship between saturation pressure and saturation temperature of the wet steam. APPARATUS: Pressure-temperature apparatus with pressure gauge and thermometer. [pic] THEORY: In order to determine the relationship between the saturation temperature and pressure of wet steam it is necessary to obtain a number of corresponding values of the

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