|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 631 - 640 of 1576 matching essays
- 631: Surface Area to Volume Ratios in Plants (Arid vs. Moist Environments)
- ... morphological variations of a plant called Hormosira banksii, two distinct groups were found that differed due to their environment. One group was found to be abundant in sheltered estuaries and the other in exposed marine rock platforms. In particular it was found that surface area to volume ratios helped to define differences between the two groups showing that size and shape were good indicators of how different environments, sheltered or exposed ...
- 632: Flooding
- ... and should expand education about sea level rise. Mayor Malcolm Fraser, six-term mayor of Cape May, related the many vicissitudes of Cape May Point over the years, as it has lost land to erosion. Rock jetties proved unsuccessful and were eventually replaced by a dune system which has been very effective protection on the Delaware Bay side. Because littoral drift had been stopped by jetties, in 1994 a Beachsaver reef ...
- 633: The Race to the Moon
- ... evident after the second N-1 rocket launch failure that the U.S.S.R. could not send a man to the Moon ahead of the Americans, the Soviets attempted to obtain the first lunar rock and soil samples, sending a robot instead of a cosmonaut. Luna 15, an automated sample return craft, was launched to the Moon two days before Apollo 11. It crash-landed there shortly after the first ...
- 634: The Monkey
- ... are popular in zoos, especially the beautifully coloured African guenons (monadiana, white-nosed, green, vervet, and grivet monkeys), long-maned guerezas, mangabeys, and the chiefly Asiatic macaques. The macaques include the Barbary ape of the Rock of Gibraltar--the only macaque outside of Asia and the only monkey inhabiting any part of Europe today--and the rhesus monkey of India, which has been used considerably in medical research. The graceful Asiatic ...
- 635: Earthquakes
- ... Two are classified as body wavesthat is, they travel through the earth's interiorand the other four are surface waves. The waves are further differentiated by the kinds of motions they impart to rock particles. Primary or compressional waves (P waves) send particles oscillating back and forth in the same direction as the waves are traveling, whereas secondary or transverse shear waves (S waves) impart vibrations perpendicular to their ...
- 636: We Are Not Alone
- ... when carefully examined were identified as electrical cells. One of the cells which was discovered in Iraq was tested and produced 2 volts of electricity. The other, which was discovered by a pair of Arizona rock hounds, was damaged when the sedimentary encrustation was being removed and therefore couldn't be tested (Montgomery 221). Since the dawn of time man has told stories of heavenly and demonic beings coming to rule ...
- 637: The Application of Science to Engineering
- ... cement properly. To heat the kilns to these high temperatures new materials had to be developed to insulate them. It became possible to manufacture cement strong and durable enough for manufacturing. Sand, gravel and crushed rock were added to the cement to produce concrete. Concrete became crutiel in the construction of such things as the foundations of buildings, roads, bridges, dams, irrigation, and sewage systems. Near the same time as the ...
- 638: Avalanches and Landslides
- ... A LITTLE ABOUT PAST AVALANCHES b.PAST DEATHS FROM AVALANCHES 3. a.CONCLUSION CLOSING OF MY REPORT What is an avalanche? , well it's a large mass of snow and ice or of earth or rock sliding down a mountain side or a cliff. And how does an avalanche occur, well mainly they happen by vibrations caused by movement of the earth such as an earthquake, gunfire, rainy weather, and many ...
- 639: Arizona Concrete
- ... cement used by Show Low Ready Mix is trucked in by Apex Freight Company and comes from the cement plant in Clarkdale, Arizona, now know as Phoenix Cement. Their aggregate comes from Brimhall Sand and Rock in Snowflake, Arizona. Show Low Ready Mix uses Fly Ash from the A.P.S. power plant just out side of Joseph City, Arizona, in their cement. The mixtures they use are as follows: Silicia ...
- 640: Water Biomes
- ... transition area between land and the marine environment is flooded only during the high spring. Below the black zone lies the white zone, where barnacles are tightly glued to rocks. Living among the barnacles are rock- clinging mollusks called limpets. At low tide, barnacles keep their four movable plates closed to avoid drying; at high tide they open the plates and extend six pairs of wandlike tentacles to sweep the water ...
Search results 631 - 640 of 1576 matching essays
|
