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    An arctic climate such as northern Scandinavia is characterized by cold and long winters, and short and cool summers. Precipitation is generally in the snow form and annual precipitation for these regions is less than 20 inches. Temperature has a major influence on aquatic life in these regions. Temperature decreases in the winter and as sea ice solidifies, the amount of pore pace within the ice is reduced and the salinity increases. Organisms must be adapted to prevent the growth of ice…

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    Essay On Water Bears

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    Water bears are hearty creatures, which inspire people to create useful things, such as the development of a special type of glass and a refrigerator-free form of storage. Water bears are tardigrades, and their hardiness has been put to the test. There are 900 known species of tardigrades. Water bears are also known as moss piglets. German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze discovered them in 1776 and named them tardigrade kleiner wasserbar, which means little water bear in German. They were…

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    Stop Global Warming Essay

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    The world will melt its way into an apocalyptic world, oceans will flood places, people will die of the heat, starvation will take place. How will the human race prevent this from happening? In order to stop global warming scientists must find ideas, and look at what is causing this? Global Warming occurs when a vast quantity of C02 along with other pollutants gets into the atmosphere and absorbs light as well as solar radiation, which has bounced off the surface of the Earth for centuries in…

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    When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped. To those who have the protean faculty of adaptability, the novelty of such change may even be a source of pleasure; but to those who happen to be hardened to the ruts in which…

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    Just one degree of warming would be able to cause the Arctic to become ice free for half the year, endangering many of the animals who depend on the ice and also creating a rise in the sea level. This wasn’t at all what I was expecting considering the fact that that’s only one degree; a one degree change that has the power to melt all of the ice in the Arctic for half a year and change the whole Earth as we know it. When there’s a one degree change in temperature, I usually never really notice…

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    Effects of Global Warming on Arctic Regions According to the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we must cut the worldwide use of fossil fuels by at least 90% if mankind is to have any chance of stopping global warming. The gases that are released from fossil fuels get trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere like a heated dome known as the greenhouse effect. The condensed heat melts or dissolves all the glacier and ice in the Arctic regions. The sudden change of climate can have…

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    NORAD Analysis

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    Warning System. Furthermore, not minding the political pressures and historical among the Canadian and American governments; they stopped Canadian Northwest Passage transits by the Polar Sea USCG and Manhattan SS during the Cold War. Nonetheless, the Arctic was monitored by NORAD continuous; both North America, Canadian, and American workers worked together in the air approaches. NORAD after the Cold War ended, continued to give control, and aerospace warning (Charron, 2015). Additionally, on…

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    Bears in Alaska Have you ever wondered about bears? Where they live, what they look like? Well I'm going to tell you everything you need to know about three different types of bears. Those three include Polar Bears, Grizzly Bears, and also Kodiak Bears. They are three very different bears, from where they live their live to how they live their live. Of course they have similarities but they also have their differences. First off lets start with Polar Bears in Alaska. Polar bears have…

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    The Anglerfish adapted its extreme environments by its life living under there . The Anglerfish live under the deep sea where theirs no light under there . These fish has a Illicium and a Esca that helps to catch its food and the way to mate . The Anglerfish can reach to 100 pounds . They can be 8 inches and 3 feet wide . They are over 200 species of these kind of fish . The Polar Bear has extreme weather life to . The bears need the cold weather they not like the heat . These bears need to…

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    Dog breeds Golden Retriever Siberian Husky Boxer Lifespan 10-12 years 12-15 years 10-12 years Litter 4-12 6 6 Behavior Reliable, friendly, kind,confident, trustworthy and intelligent. Outgoing, alert, gentle, friendly and intelligent. Playful, devoted, bright, loyal, energetic, friendly, calm, cheerful, confident, fearful, brave and intelligent. Health Hypothyroidism, subaortic stenosis (SAS), eye disorders, elbow dysplasia, mast cell tumors, and seizures. Osteosarcoma is also occasionally…

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