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    this rock flour is large enough in quantity it will change the glacier’s color to a more gray shade. The glaciers will also cause scratches in the bedrock; this is known as Glacial Striations. The landforms of Cirques‚ horns‚ arêtes‚ hanging valleys‚ cirques‚ moraines and glacial troughs which are landforms that give mountains their beauty are produced

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    Curriculum Guide in Science

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    Republic of the Philippines Department of Education DepEd Complex‚ Meralco Avenue Pasig City K to 12 Curriculum Guide SCIENCE (Kindergarten to Grade 10) January 31‚ 2012 K TO 12 SCIENCE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Science education aims to develop scientific literacy among students that will prepare them to be informed and participative citizens who are able to make judgments and decisions regarding applications of scientific knowledge that may have social‚ health‚ or environmental impacts

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    Egypt vs Mespotamia

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    civilizations. Mesopotamia made many strides‚ such as the wheel‚ for early civilizations but their tough terrain and difficult geographical location ultimately hindered their potential. Mesopotamia was susceptible to invasion because it had no natural landforms of protection. Also‚ flooding of The Euphrates River was common and unpredictable‚ often destroying the Mesopotamian’s hard-earned progress. Ancient Egypt was the first civilization on the continent of Africa. Egypt greatly benefited from

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    University of Phoenix SCI/230 September 23‚ 2010 Everglades National Park 2 When it comes to one of the biggest national parks in the world‚ with beautiful animals‚ some on the verge of extinction and also all of the beautiful landforms it possesses a name that come to mind is the Everglades National Park located in the southern section of the Florida peninsula. The Everglades National park covers about 1‚506‚539 acres; it is the third biggest National Park in the United States

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    produce more pyroclastics than lava. The common types of vulcanoes are shield‚ conical and composite volcanoes. Basically‚ vulanicity in Eastern Africa can be categorized into four main areas comprising the causes‚ historical background‚ places of volcanic formations and the effects of vulcanicity. The countries that make up East Africa are Kenya‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Tanzania (Tanganyika and Zanzibar) with a total land area of 702‚670 square miles and a population small about 53 million in 1963

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    The Volcanic Eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz Nevado Del Ruiz located in Central Colombia‚ is a broad‚ glacier covered volcano. A relatively small eruption caused a devastating mud flow that killed almost 25‚000 people in the town of Armero‚ marking one of the worst volcanic disasters in history. Sadly‚ this tragedy could have been easily avoided if clear warnings by volcanologists had been taken seriously. On November 13‚ 1985‚ Nevado Del Ruiz erupted and created a lahar. Surprisingly‚ not all the

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    Predicting Volcano Eruptions As the world’s population grows‚ more and more people are living in potentially dangerous volcanic areas. Volcanic eruptions continue to happen and they can cause great threats to life and property. Predicting a volcano’s eruption accurately will lead to more saved lives and ensure our safety. When a volcano erupts it produces many threats. Some of these threats are lava flows‚ falling ash‚ and they may even cause other threats like mud and debris flows‚ or they

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    Poverty is general scarcity or dearth‚ or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.[1] Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs‚ which commonly includes food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ clothing‚ shelter‚ health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live.[2][3]After the industrial revolution‚ mass production in factories made production goods increasingly

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    Igneous Rock Checkpoint

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    meaning fire; these rocks are formed from volcanic activity. This rock is one of three types of rock including sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Igneous rock is formed from the cooling and solidification of lava or magma. Igneous rock can be formed with our without crystallization‚ below the surface as intrusive rocks or on the surface as extrusive rocks. Volcanic rocks also known as extrusive igneous rocks include all the products resulting from volcanic eruptions of lava flows and fragmented debris

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    2015). Volcanism helped form Earth’s ancient climate and influences climate change in today’s world (Kasting‚ 1993). A recent example of a volcano influencing climate include the 1982 El Chichon eruption in Mexico‚ which is regarded as the largest volcanic disaster in modern Mexican history (Mass‚ 1989). Ancient examples of climate-changing eruptions include the Huaynaputina volcano in Peru in 1600 C.E. (Costa‚ et al. 2003) and a volcano called Tambora in Indonesia which exploded in 1815 (Harpp‚ 2005)

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