Bering Sea

Arctic tundra The Arctic Tundra is found nearly everywhere in the North. They are found mostly in the arctic. The categorization of a tundra falls between a taiga and the ice caps. The zone is controlled by the extremes in the weather. In the arctic tundra there are two seasons: winter and summer. In the summer, the sun is present almost 24 hours a day. This amount of sun only warms up the tundra to a range of about 3°C to 12°C. In the winter, the lighting conditions are flipped. For example,…

specifically sea otters, blue crabs, jaguars, and as we discussed in class wolves that illustrate predators that decimate their prey because of the food chain (quora.com).” First of all, in the example of the sea otters, sea otters eat urchins. Sea urchins are omnivorous animals and therefore eat both plant and animal matter. The sea urchin mainly feeds on algae on the coral and rocks, along with decomposing matter such as dead fish, mussels, sponges, barnacles, and kelp. So, sea otters keep the…

The five themes of geography include location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and region. They help answer questions such as where is it located, what it is like, what is the relationship between the humans and the environment, how places connect with one another, why is one similar to the other. In 1984, the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers felt the need to arrange the way geography students learned about areas. Thus, these…

Picking a tropical destination for your annual vacation is sometimes an overwhelming task. If your choice of destination favors a Caribbean getaway setting, your best recommendations would be Jamaica or the Bahamas. Each of these islands provides remarkable sceneries, a cool, relaxing atmosphere and the tropical sunshine. Both Jamaica and the Bahamas are what vacation destinations are made of. In this regard here are some points to assist you in making your pick. On arrival, you may want to…

King Triton is Ariel’s father. Ariel is a sixteen-year-old girl that despises living under the sea. From the beginning of the movie, she is seen obsession over humans and human artifacts. King Triton is not fond of people because of his terrifying experience with the fisherman. He warns Ariel to stay away from humans because they will kill her. In…

Lazio is also known as Latium. It is located in center of Italy and it is home to the capital city of Rome. Lazio is the third most populated region in Italy it has 5,732,212 population in 2011 estimation. The region total area is 6,655 sq mi. Shares it's bounded by the Apennine Mountains to the east and the Tyrrhenian coast to the west, Lazio is occupied with woods and pastures, hills and valleys, rivers and lakes, and as many as twenty-five nature parks and reserves. Lazio experienced a rush…

“I don’t want to die in sea. I don’t want to die alone. I would rather die with my family. If I had known all the dangers I would face, I wouldn’t have left Syria, even with the death threats,” says Zizit Abdel Algabbar. Zizit Abdel Algabbar, is a Syrian doctor who fled Syria because she received death threats from the Islamic state, they accused her of helping the opposition because she treated the injured patients at her clinic. A smuggler in Athens agrees to take Zizit and her daughter Maya…

The Squalus acanthus is nicknamed the dog fish because they are known to feed in packs which is similar to the habits of dogs, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium website. These sharks are classified as chondrichthyes (“Squalus Acanthias”). According to the article Spiny Dogfish, the dogfish’s relatives include the Pygmy shark and the Sleeper shark. The Squalus acanthus has an endoskeleton skeleton type. They live in the interdial zone up to 900 meters deep. The dogfish sharks swim in water…

Endurance by Alfred Lansing is an intense, attention-grabbing story based on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to be the first person to ever cross the continent of Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton was an Irish Explorer who specialized to explorations to the Artic region. His first exploration to the Artic region was under the command of Robert Scott from 1901-1903. Six years later, he was knighted for commanding the successful British Antarctica Expedition that began in 1907 and ended in 1909. On…

When I first think of Egypt all I can picture are the pyramids located there and miles of hot desert. I learned a lot about Ancient Egypt while I was in school. I also watched many documentaries about Ancient Egyptian history and the pyramids themselves. I never pictured people living there or even imagined anyone living in Egypt. The only people I imagined to be in Egypt were archaeologists and tourists. But, approximately 92 million people do call Egypt home. In movies and documentaries, Egypt…