When fighting fires there are many different techniques for each variety, from house fire, to grass fire, to forest fire, yet what doesn’t change are the essentials. These essentials range from the behavior of fire itself, the way it moves,…
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Biomes are the ecosystems in which animals live and can be they separated into several categories. The animals living in those biomes adapt for maximum survival, both physically and behaviorally. They adapt by a wide range of mechanism and how…
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CNN (Cable News Network) has compiled a list of natural wonders to be considered as the seven wonders of the natural world. These places are of uncompromising beauty or of incredible wonderment. The list recognizes these sites as places worthy…
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Drought mitigation strategies are regional and /or countrywide plans to deal with prolonged drought. Without water there is no existence. One of the reasons we wouldn’t survive living on another planet is because of lack of water there. Insufficient precipitation…
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* Anemometer History * There are quite a few different types of anemometer, all of which measure wind pressure and velocity. In 1846, John Thomas Romnay Robertson invented a simple design known as a cup anemometer. Four horizontal arms hold…
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It might be useful to start by defining just exactly what clouds are! Oh, we all look up and see those fluffy white shapes, or those big, dark, heavy-looking masses, blanking out the sun, hiding the stars and moon. But…
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Symbiosis is living together in a mutually beneficial and interdependent fashion. It is a complex interaction between plants, and between plants and animals. A total symbiotic cannot survive and propagate naturally without it’s partner, and that partner does not mean…
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STABILITY OF NATIONS. How many drops of water does it take to make an Iceberg? And yet with out the water – none of us on Planet Earth could survive. It seems logical how prosperous lives depend on every drop…
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There are many simple ways to save energy; some involve very little time or effort, some involve more time or effort, but may have bigger savings as well. Here are a quick 25. 1. Turn off light bulbs when not…
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A rainforest could be described as a layered symbiotic ecosystem that gets a tremendous amount of rain. The canopy is the top layer and composed of mainly epiphytes; climbing vines, orchids, bromilliads and such which serve as a protector, preventing…
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