Earth Science

No day at the beach is probably a great way to describe the City of Fairbanks, Alaska. Take the year 2009 as an example, and it is a good one because the temperature profile for the United States’ coldest city…
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In my Year 8 science class, we did an experiment with sea water. We removed the sand using filter paper and left the water to evaporate. When it did, there was a layer of salt crystals left behind. But if…
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Lightning is extremely dangerous, leading many people to take cover and avoid potentially being struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. While most individuals realize the tremendous danger of being caught in a thunderstorm with lightning, what may not be known…
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Every single great civilization in the history of mankind has started out simply enough, but the single most important driving factor of where civilizations spring up and why is water. Without it, man cannot exist. Water is the most important…
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There is so much water on Earth compared to land (71 percent of the surface) that many prefer to call it the “water planet,” and some are even of the opinion that “earth” is a misnomer. The presence of so…
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“An ecosystem consists of the biological community that occurs in some locale, and the physical and chemical factors that make up its non-living or abiotic environment. The aboitic components include sunlight temperature moisture, soil or water chemistry etcetera are many…
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Coral reefs are marine structures made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) secreted by stony corals and other marine species living in the reef. Corals are colonial organisms composed of hundreds of thousands of individual animals known as polyps, which cluster in…
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Coral reefs are one of the most diverse marine habitats in the world. The coral reef ecosystem is sometimes dubbed as the marine rain forest for its wide variety of marine life.  It has been estimated that the coral reef…
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Turbidites are sea deposits which are formed by underwater avalanches. They are responsible for large amounts of clastic sediment in the ocean. Formation Turbidites travel and are deposited by density flow, or gravity currents. Usually, in a river bed, rock…
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Carbon “Foot-Print” Last night I met a man from Seattle, who claimed to be some kind of engineer. After conversing whith him, I related my feeling of “Seattleites”, in which I say that Seattle is the “Pansy-ass” capital. I was…
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