Atlantic Ocean

While informing about past hurricanes, they also tell you what a hurricane is and how they form. For example, in the video “Super Hurricanes and Typhoons”, it states that, “… hurricanes are giant rotating storms that feed on heat captured by tropical oceans”. This video also says how hurricanes form. In brief, hurricanes usually start off in the mountains of East Africa, where…

“In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue” is a common phrase used to teach schoolchildren the history of exploration in North America. In the United States, we refer to Columbus as the first person to discover America. Not only do schools and government buildings close nationwide in remembrance of Columbus’s arrival to the New World on October 12th, our nation’s capital is the District of Columbia. However, Columbus was not the explorer, or person, history textbooks portray him as…

caused the marsh land to dry up and then New Orleans starting to build up. New Orleans sits 12 feet under sea level and is protected by a series of walls, levees and pumps. During the Hurricane Katrina some of the leaves broke this allowed for the ocean water to rush into the sunken city and cause wide scale flooding of the city. (Townsend,…

they go really slow. Now the earth 's plates are moving again, and they are splitting the earth 's pangea in two again. This causes a kasium the fills with a new ocean that one day will be the middle east, currents push nutrients up to to the walls, and this attracts the fish into millions. There is now plankton in the bottom of the ocean, in a million years plankton will become…

-70.13672° E) November 2nd, 2012. The Storm was a Category 3 major Hurricane and was the 18th named hurricane in the 2012 season. The origins of Sandy go back to a tropical wave that had moved off the western coast of Africa into the eastern Atlantic Ocean on October 11th. With the extended low pressure conditions, condition was…

researching the landscape of North and South America. Statues and walls were also found showing Chinese materials as well as sunken junks (Chinese boats). Due to the location of these ships and artifacts, China must have been all over America, from Atlantic to Pacific. The Junks basically support the fact that they were trading with the natives. Chinese artifacts have been found all over the Americas which once again proves that they had trading and social interactions with Native Americans.…

religious Catholic who believed “that God destined him to be an instrument for spreading the faith” and this religious fervor motivated his plans and preparations for his voyages. Christopher Columbus began making plans for a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1486. In order to fund…

airmail pilot, Lindbergh soon rose to the challenge of crossing the Atlantic. After a tragedy, Lindbergh turned to medical science to create a device that is still used to this day. Lindbergh was a true American, from crossing the solo flying the Atlantic and rising…

Amelia Earhart, who is known as the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, is a very inspirational figure for women. We chose her as our topic for this project because she is a daring, adventurous, differential, and confident woman. Also, Earhart was always willing to take risks, even though she knew about the dangers involved. Throughout her career, she has set many records and accomplishments as an aviatrix. This involved the great number of distance she covered by the flight and…

it be too much? We have of plenty of fish, right? Wrong. Small fishing in ponds, lakes, and sea sides by one or two people won’t make much of a difference, but with the main fishing companies hauling thousands to millions of marine life out of the oceans daily, it will be. This is overfishing; depleting stocks of fish in a body of water by too much fishing. This is the problem that will be explained by this paper, as well as the background of it and possible solutions to solve the problem.…