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- 621: What Is Radar
- ... radio echoes to locate aircraft, ships, and other objects. Radar sets can locate artificial satellites and spacecraft thousands of kilometres from the earth. They can find such "targets" even in darkness, smoke, clouds, fog, or rain. Radar is also used in weather prediction to locate storm systems. An airplane can carry a radar set\et to aid in determining the airplane's ground speed. Ships can carry radar to detect icebergs ...
- 622: Population Statistics of Mexico
- ... of Mexico's population being located here and not somewhere else in the country. One of the main reasons is climate. In the Northern areas, there is a desert climate with very little or no rain. In the area where the main population is located, there is a sub-tropical climate that has distinct wet and dry seasons but still provides a good amount of annual precipitation. This leads to another ...
- 623: Global Warming
- ... around the world. With the warming of the planet, the water on the ground would quickly evaporate causing the rivers and lakes to quickly dry up. This would lead to crops dying from lack of rain, which would lead to food prices to skyrocket, which would lead to people dying from hunger if they do not have enough money to pay the price for food. Another event that would occur from ...
- 624: Sustainable Development
- ... a forest in that region and conversion of that area into commercial farming practices such as sugarcane. This in itself did not cause the floods, the conversion of the forest into farming left the heavy rain from a typhoon with nowhere to go. Normally the forest would have stopped any flash floods as it would have held the water let it out slowly, but with the forests gone there was nothing ...
- 625: Normadic Herding-Sami
- ... and moss on top of it. On April 1986, when the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Russia exploded, it released a plume of radioactive particles that floated north, then fell with the rain on Scandinavia. At the time when Chernobyl blew up, the reindeer herdes were in the mountains pasturing, marking calves. Later that summer when they brought the reindeer in for slaughtering, many carcasses registered thousands becquerels ...
- 626: Beer
- ... anything which had previously been prepared with unmalted barley. After a while when barley malt became a common ingredient it is thought that a loaf or bowl of this malt was accidentally left in the rain. When wet, the dissolved starches and sugars in the malted barley became susceptible to wild yeast, which started spontaneous fermentation (5). The discoverer of this new mix probably tasted it and realized how good it ...
- 627: Chemical Warfare and Its Uses
- ... moist and warm parts. In situations of massive exposure, tear gas which is swallowed may also cause vomiting. Toxins Toxins are effective and specific poisons produced by living organisms. They usually consist of an amino acid chain which can vary in molecular weight between a couple of hundred (peptides) and one hundred thousand (proteins). They may also be low-molecular organic compounds. Toxins are produced by numerous organisms, e.g., bacteria ...
- 628: The Discovery of Pottery on an Archaelogical Site
- ... under a microscope to reveal the contents of a pot thousands of years ago. As stated in Renfrew & Bahn a jar found in Western Iraq, after chemical and infrared spectroscopy was found to contain tartaric acid which indicated the earliest appearance of wine in the diet of any human race. Of course this particular piece of evidence goes further than merely indicating what an ancient group of people may have eaten ...
- 629: Scandinavian Mythology
- ... In the north there was an icy world, while in the south, a fiery realm. The northern part of Ginnungagap became filled with the ice and. When that ice formed and was firm, a drizzling rain arose from the venomous rivers and poured over the ice where it cooled into rime, and one layer of ice formed on top of the other throughout Ginnungagap. The southern part was lit by the ...
- 630: America's Zoos: Entertainment to Conservation
- ... gates. A family spends a late Saturday afternoon together, laughing and walking through the city zoo. The cotton candy and balloons remain, but the fun does not stop there. The monkeys live in the new "Rain Forest" exhibit, which is next to "Feline Mountain" where the tigers run free. The habitats teach the children about where these animals really live in the wild (Arrandale, 1990). The koala bears, which were endangered ...
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