1. It can cause skin cancer which can kill you or at least leave you with serious damage to your skin. Evidence Too much exposure to the sun is dangerous. A cancer research UK survey found a worrying gap between how much people know about skin cancer and how little they actually do to protect themselves in the sun. Among 16-24 year olds 73% believed that exposure to the sun might cause skin cancer but only a quarter of this age group apply high factor sunscreen protection and fewer than 20%
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Matt Lee Professor Lynch Personal and Community Health April 14‚ 2013 CVD and Cancer After taking the cancer and CVD risk assessment I learned that aside from working in the sun without protection‚ smoking is my largest risk for cancer or CVD. Aside from these two risk factors I live a fairly healthy life‚ I work harder than most people my age can even fathom from their deep-fryer station at McDonald’s‚ I eat fairly well and I seldom find myself stationary. My top-dog risk factor as determined
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Science Fair Research Paper Moths are flying around everywhere. They fly around all different types of lights‚ such as street lights‚ porch lights‚ and even traffic lights. Have you ever wondered why? There are many different theories to why moths are attracted to light‚ and all of them are from a different point of view. Some moth theories are based off of energy‚ scientist say that moths are attracted to the light energy that the light produces. This causes them to go to the brightest
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Techniques Employed in Half of a Yellow Sun Literary Technique and Associated Theme | Explanation | Example | Abrogation-Marginalization-Alien’s Perspective | The author uses a character to explore a cultural background to gain credibility to belittling that very same culture. In HOYS‚ Adichie uses Ugwu to undertake an exploration in to the British rule to be able to point out the flaws in their imperialistic influence on Nigeria. | * Pg. 11 – There are two answers to the things they will
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Life and Earth science:- Sun safety survey Introduction: In our sun safety survey we decided to base the questions we asked‚ around ‘Does peer pressure affect your sun safety?’ We conducted our survey using survey monkey and then we posted it onto any social networking sites that we had eg.Facebook to determine whether teens are affected by it or not. We will show our results in bar graphs. Hypothesis: I believe that the amount of teens that are aware of the dangers of skin cancer and being
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Every time 1% of the ozone layer is depleted‚ 2% more UV-B is able to reach the surface of the planet. So in short‚ without the ozone layer everything on earth will burn. The ozone layer is just as important to us as oxygen‚ without it the harmful UV radiation would give us server burns and destroy our delicate ecosystems. Even though there is hard evidence that proves that ozone depletion is harmful for organisms on earth‚ there are a few groups who think that the ozone layer is a “myth” aka doesn’t
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Review Questions 1. What are club drugs? What are some of the factors that support the use of club drugs? Club drugs are synthetic drugs that are typically used in bars‚ nightclubs‚ raves‚ and other gatherings‚ some factors that support the use of these are the setting of raves and nightclubs. 2. What are screening tests? Why are they used? Screening tests are nonspecific and help a forensic scientist identify several particular drugs that the substance is likely to be‚ these tests are used to
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Benefits of LED Lighting * extremely energy efficient‚ consuming up to 90% less power than incandescent or halogen bulbs and up to 50% less than fluorescent or CFL. * less heat emission‚ therefore loading on air conditioners is reduced resulting in further electricity savings. * long life span thus reducing maintenance and lamp replacement costs and lower long-term operating costs. * environmentally friendly as they do not contain toxic mercury or any other hazardous materials. Secondly
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This year’s ozone hole over the South Pole is one of the worst‚ despite scientists only a year ago saying it had shrunk to its smallest size. By September 12 the hole above Antarctica was 26 million square kilometres‚ Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The hole – which grows each spring and then shrinks again each year – was among the 10 worst since records began 26 years ago. Colder-than-average temperatures in the stratosphere had caused the larger-than-average
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Ozone depletion and Volatile Organic Compounds Christina Stelmach SCI/ January 20‚ 2013 Christine Snyder The atmospheric issue that I chose to write about is the Ozone layer depletion and the indoor air pollutant is Volatile Organic Compounds. I am going to talk about the cause and effect of each of these issues and also efforts to mitigate the issues. Our Earth’s Ozone layer protects all life from the sun’s harmful radiation. Due to all human activities damage has been done to our
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