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- 911: Define a Concept : Astrology
- ... in the sky. Zeus and the other gods and goddesses were based on the planets that were visible to the people of that time. Astrology was also popular in Babylon, Egypt, the Middle East, and China. Modern Astrology has changed as new planets have been discovered. Astrology is about the interaction between the planets, including the Sun and the Moon, and the Star Signs. It studies the mathmatical cycles on which ...
- 912: Nuclear Power: Worth the Risks?
- ... of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. The meltdown of a nuclear power plant would release a thousand times more radioactivity into the atmosphere than the bombs dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Another possibility is"China Syndrome", where the core of the reactor melts into the earth and reaches the water table of the area and contaminates it . Although Nuclear power plants do not give off any form of combustion, they ...
- 913: The Monkey
- ... or sacred monkey, of India. Among the more unusual monkeys are the strikingly coloured African drills and mandrills, large ground-dwelling monkeys; the proboscis monkey of Borneo; and the related snub-nosed monkeys of western China. New World monkeys, or platyrrhines, have broad noses, with a wide septum separating the outwardly directed nostrils; each side in both jaws has three premolar teeth. Platyrrhines lack a bony ear passage, and the arrangement ...
- 914: Nuclear Energy: Uranium Fission
- ... industrial development, which included nuclear power in their energy mix and were operating nuclear reactors. About 17% of the world's electricity is being produced by some 440 reactors, with 30 more under construction. Belgium, China, France, Hungary, India, Japan, Switzerland, UK, USA, and Russia are just some of the countries with major nuclear energy programs (Blinkin 17). We need to continue to expand our use of nuclear energy to its ...
- 915: Earthquakes
- ... scale can be correlated with magnitudes 8 to 9 on the Richter scale.( Associated Press 1992) Attempts at predicting when and where earthquakes will occur have met with some success in recent years. At present, China, Japan, Russia, and the U.S. are the countries most actively supporting such research. In 1975 the Chinese predicted the magnitude 7.3 quake at Haicheng, evacuating 90,000 residents only two days before the ...
- 916: The Ocean
- ... you need to use machine to take out the dirt. For example the petroleum is use to sucked out by the big pipes. The asphalt road and the clean oil can be the fuel. South china sea has a big processing plant that produces the oil and natural gas. In late 1980‘¦s, offshore wells produced about 25 percent of the world‘¦s oil and about 20 per cent of the ...
- 917: Ozone
- ... an initiative of the Sierra Club, is intended to foster public awareness of and support for Manitoba's Ozone Protection Regulation. ¨Canada has established bilateral agreements for ozone depleting substance technology and information transfer with China, Brazil and Venezuela. ¨A Multilateral Fund has been set up by industrialized countries under the Montreal Protocol to assist developing countries in the phase-out of controlled substances. (Environment Canada, 1996) Acid rain, the widely ...
- 918: Landfills: A Growing Menace
- Landfills: A Growing Menace When asked to think of the largest man made structure, people will invariably come up with an answer like The Great Wall of China, the Great Pyramids, or the Taj Majal. In contrast to these striking achievements of mankind is the Durham Road Landfill outside San Francisco, which occupies over seventy million cubic feet. It is a sad monument ...
- 919: Human Evolution
- ... Asia. A number of archaeological sites dating from the time of H. erectus reveal a greater sophistication in toolmaking than was found at the earlier sites. At the cave site of Peking man in north China, there is evidence that fire was used; the animal fossils that have been found are sometimes of large mammals such as elephants. These data suggest that hominine behavior was becoming more complex and efficient. Throughout ...
- 920: Deforestation
- ... expected to increase. Reduced growth, defoliation and eventual death occur in most affected forests. From 1850 to 1980 the greatest forest losses occurred in North America and the Middle East (-60%), South Asia (-43%) and China (-39%). The highest rates of deforestation per year are now in South America (1.3%) and Asia (0.9%). Over the last two decades the world became interested in the loss of tropical forests as ...
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