How Mountains Are Formed
.... the Andes. Fault-block mountains are
formed when one plate pushes or pulls away from another plate. In the Earth,
hot currents of magma or molten rock may well up and crack the weakened
crust above. As the crust cracks, blocks of rock rise or fall forming
Fault-block mountains. Examples of these mountains are the Sierra Nevada in
California and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Dome mountains are formed
by the same kind of molten rock that forms Volcanic mountains. As magma
comes up in a cra .....
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How Natural Processes Operate At A Coastal Eographic Environ
.... and different times. Limestone rock is eroded slower than sedimentary rock. The cliff at Muriwai made of sedimentary rock was eroded back to expose ‘Fisherman’s Rock’ - the shore platform which, made of limestone – tended to erode back slower than the cliff.
The types of wave erosion that caused this are -
Hydraulic Action, when waves hit the cliff, air is forced into cracks, and then as the wave retreats this air expands explosively. Over time the cracks enlarge, weakening .....
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How North Carolina Is Affected By Water Pollution
.... will reduce water usage and discharges.
About 94% of the estuaries and sounds in North Carolina fgully support designated uses. Agriculture, urban runoff, septic tanks, and point source discharges are the leading sources of nutrients, bacteria, and low dissolved oxygen that degrade estuaries.
About half of the people in North Carolina use ground water as their primary supply of drinking water. Ground water quality is generally good. The leading source of ground water contamination is leaking undergr .....
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How Science And Pseudo-science Differ
.... a pseudo-science wrong, because it seems to just be always right. They are both inductive ways of proving things, but the scientific way is a little better, since it can survive an attempt to falsify it.
A man by the name Karl Popper developed a method, like the traditional scientific method, but more scientific. After you have made your hypothesis, rather than attempting to prove it right, you attempt to falsify it. If your hypothesis holds true, it is then a truly scientific theory, and not a pse .....
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How Technology Effects Modern America
.... evidence that the supply of workers in the [unskilled labor] categories already exceeds the demand for their services," says L. Mishel, Research Director of Welfare Reform Network.
In view of these facts, I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society. "The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers with technology, in the long run it is potentially self-destructive because there will not be enough purchasing power to grow the economy," M .....
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How To Build A Pond
.... clean, clear water is generally preferred. If the site has a low area, a pond is a good choice in almost any climate. Natural ponds will also suit almost any architecture, but they are not often effective on small site, particularly urban houses were a more formal water feature would look more appropriate.
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How To Grow Venus Fly Traps
.... season.
Venus flytraps usually grow along the dampish edges of sandy, wet bogs or fens. The plant begins its growth each spring, sending out a resette of small leaves. Usually the plant flowers around April or May. Summer arrives and the plant produces its larger leaves, often on upright petrels. Some plants remain rosetted all season. With the approach of autumn, flytraps get small. In winter they are dormant, with tiny leaves or no leaves at all. In their native habitat, Venus flytraps enjoy a warm .....
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How Various Mechanisms By Which Substances Cross The Cell Me
.... of one side of the membrane is greater than the
molecules will travel from the higher to lower concentration.
Eventually there will be a dynamic equilibrium and there will be no net
movement of molecules from one side to the other.
Osmosis is the diffusion of water. Like diffusion, the water moves
from a region of higher water potential to a region of lower water
potential. Solutions have three different stages that the solutes can
be classified in: isotonic, hypertonic, and hypotonic. .....
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Hubble Space
.... the future."
"This observation is a major step toward fulfilling one of Hubble's key objectives: to search for the faintest and farthest objects in the universe," adds Ed Weiler, NASA's acting Associate Administrator for Space Science.
In a separate discovery, Thompson also found that faint red galaxies matched up with compact blue knots of light seen in the earlier visible light image. "This means that some objects that appeared to be separate galaxies in the optical image are really hot star-formin .....
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Human Cloning
.... want to die. Some people believe that this immoral or unethical, but imagine what life would be like in your elder years when you feel as if you are 20 years old and you don’t have to live with the fear of old age or death.
Human cloning is beneficial to our existence on earth. It can help solve the problem of organ limitation, cure diseases and take a step toward immortality. Overall the whole issue of cloning is a great idea and in my opinion has only positive side effects. Cloning has .....
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Human Cloning -
.... consideration and prompt enactment” stating that it would be illegal to create a human clone whether in private or public laboratories. Along with the US ban, nineteen European countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Sweden, Macedonia, and Turkey, signed a protocol that would commit their countries to ban by law any intervention seeking to create human beings genetically identical to another human being, whether living .....
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Human Evolution In Africa
.... once more. Some returned to North America, only to be wiped out by rodents already living there. Others spread to Europe and the Middle East.
By this time, Africa had just split from marsupial overrun Gondwanaland. About a million years later it reached the Middle East, and primates moved in. By now the world had cooled enough that the primates in Europe had been decimated to near extinction. They also migrated south, for the Mediterranean Sea was at that time dry lowland. Now almost all of the .....
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Human Genome Project
.... Welfare
Will welfare be provided to people with genetic predisposition not to work
Will the government try to alter people on welfare
Military
Will the military attempt to genetically alter persons to become greater soldiers or officers?
Will the newly found technologies be used to engineer biological weapons?
Corporations
Will corporations require genetic testing to be performed as a term of hire?
Will corporations issue genetic testing to employees to determine job position?
Eugeni .....
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Human Genome Project 2
.... was in the selection of the sex of an unborn child. In Vitro
Fertilization(IVF - A procedure in which a woman’s eggs are
removed from her body, fertilized outside using sperm from her
husband or another donor, and then transferred back to her body.)
was originally limited to couples that were infertile. Even the
use of IVF for the infertile was unheard of at one point. “But
growing demand makes it socially acceptable, and now anybody
who’s infertile demands .....
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Human Health
.... harm. Almost all of the herbs that are helpful
and none of the herbs that cause harm are in our products.
The products come in tablet or capsule form. These tablets
are cold pressed herbs and roots that have not been
subjected to the nutrition destroying effects of cooking.
This preserves
the product in the most natural state possible. These herbs
and roots are mostly grown in China and the Amazon rain
forest, thousands of miles from any pesticides, herbicides
and chemical pollu .....
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