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Achieving Author’s Purpose: A Successful Creation Myth Have you ever wondered how Earth came to be? Everyone has heard of different creation stories whether they were fictional or reasonable stories. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a an Iroquois creation story that displays the Earth beginning, and the balance of “good” and “evil.” “Creation stories often serve many purposes. According to Larry Evers and Paul Pavich, scholars of Native American literature, such stories’ remind people of…

of their close position to the Sun. Appearing to be a nice golden color, the pictures we see of Venus is actually showing the clouds that are filled with sulfuric acid, making its atmosphere cloudy and dense. A year on Venus last 225 Earth days and a day lasts 243 Earth days. This means that it takes longer for Venus to spin on its axis, than it does for it to orbit the Sun. Another interesting thing about Venus is that its orbit is most nearly circular than any other planet, at a speed of 108,…

the Earth’s atmosphere and hit Earth (2) About 65 million years ago an asteroid that is roughly 10 kilometres across, hit Earth on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It caused a huge explosion and left a crater that is about 185 kilometres across. This asteroid impact is commonly known to be the reason for the extinction of three quarters of the dinosaurs. (4) The asteroid soared through the sky at more than 40 times the speed of sound. (6) The earth moves through space in its…

Andrew Heywood ENG 1101 Larson August 24, 2015 Climate Change and the Arctic Earth is a self-sustaining system that is built to cleanse and rehabilitate its own environment. Due to our interactions with the environment, producing mass amounts of greenhouse gases and releasing chemical waste, we are slowly tearing the Earth apart faster than it can repair itself. One effect this has created is climate change. Climate change has caused much of Earth’s environment to degrade, the Arctic being the…

produces that are lost to the background noise before anyone outside our system would hear it, much less what they might learn if they were able to pick up our signals? What signals would an alien civilization detect? And what could they learn about Earth from what they could receive from human transmissions? What Won’t Aliens Pick Up Aliens won’t be watching standard television broadcasts. After all, these signals are lost over a hundred miles away unless they are satellite TV signals. And…

Mars has as much land as Earth itself. Jupiter is like it’s own solar system it has more mass than all the other planets combined. The Oort Cloud is leftovers from the formation of the formation of the solar system nearly 5 billion years ago. This cloud is something no one ever seen…

The Birds: Anthropocene Warning or Comical Prank? Humanity was not always on Earth, despite the long debate of how humans came to be, humans have caused many changes to the Earth. Over the many years humans have been on Earth there have been many challenges humans have faced and overcome. They have tried to put together Earth’s record of a timeline through history, which is called Geological Time Scale. In this time scale the periods of time have been divided and called epoch(s). Each epoch has…

Emma-Mae Smitley 9th period The Colonization Of Mars Life is defined by the decision we make; from how we act, to how we coalesce into our environment. If the earth became unsafe, we as a people would have to make a very drastic decision. Envision a whole new world, but this time on Mars. The colonization of Mars could benefit humankind because expanding our species to a second planet could help maintain our existence longer, the colonization of Mars could also help us as a way for people to…

is a location on the earth that can be found by using mathematical coordinates. 4. Latitude is one of the measures used for absolute location. It is a measurement that goes from north to south. It uses degrees, minutes, and seconds to show how far a place is from the equator. 5. Longitude is the other measure used for absolute location. It measures from east to west. It uses a vertical plane running through the polar axis and begins with…

of writing is informational but also persuasive. This letter is written to inform the public. The overall point of this piece of writing is to discuss the environment. Pope Francis talks about the changes of the earth due to human behavior. He goes into detail of each aspect of the earth and talks about the changes and the reason people should want to help fix…