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Richard Ceka Geo 201 Mariana Trench According to Encyclopedia Britannica Mariana Trench is the deepest place on the Earth. It is located in the Western Pacific Ocean, Eastern of the Mariana Islands. Its coordinates are 11"21' North latitude and 142" 12' East longitude. Its depth is equal to 11033 meters (36201 feet) the length is 2542km (1580 miles long), and the width of the trench is 69km (43miles) wide. The length is five times greater than the length of the Grand Canyon. According to the…

Chronicles, humans are desperate to leave Mars and return to Earth upon hearing of a pending nuclear war. In other words, the people regret leaving their friends and family behind to keep up with industrial developments. This signifies that humans can make mistakes when they are eager to explore new lands. The chapter "October 2026: The Million-Year Picnic" provides another example of this when the fictional war rips society apart and annihilates Earth. Despite…

way the Earth is more and less sustainable because of everyone 's actions around the world. Both articles touch on the ideas that there are people out there helping change Earth for the better, and want to make earth sustainable for the future. The authors both explain how there are also harmful situations happening that hardly balance out the help from others trying to make a difference. Everyone on Earth is responsible…

Mercury There are no seasons on the surface. The colour of the surface is grey with white spots. On the surface there are craters. The mass of Mercury is 330,104,000,000,000 billion kg. Mercury is smaller than the Earth. A year on Mercury is about 88 (Earth) days. Mercury is very dense. Mercury is the second hottest planet in the world. Two spacecrafts have gone to Mercury. Mercury has the most craters in the Solar System. Mercury was named after the Roman god of messenger. Mercury…

other planets for a multitude of reasons such as we need to have some place to go after life on Earth becomes impossible and that health effects caused by space (i.e. skin cancer from solar flares or neurological damage) is a much better prospect to deal with than extinction. Everyone knows that life on Earth (for humans at least) will become impossible when we burn too much fossil fuels, and the Earth will be too hot for us to live in. In that case, we…

well, as the food they eat, the clothes they wear, the many robots aboard the ship who are servants to the humans, and even the school system. Everyone in the future has become overly obese because it is the society they were born in to. Humans leave earth because of their consumer culture, yet the people of the future are still victims to their own consumerism, for example, they are seen riding in floating chairs everywhere they go. Consumer culture is heavily shown in the conflict between…

dangers of space debris. If an effort to remove debris does not take place soon, a "snow-ball effect" where satellite fragmentations cause further collisions leading to a dramatic increase in space debris \cite{ion}. As of 2007, nearly half of all Earth satellites are debris \cite{old}. %TODO finish intro %TODO where is space debris a problem? % History %TODO go more in-depth and stretch out each event % Early fragmentations % 2007 Fengyun anti-satellite test % 2009 collision % 2012…

suggests that everything on the Earth makes up a single, living organism. It suggests that if something on the Earth changes, other things on the Earth with evolve to accommodate that change. This is similar to how, if you begin running, your heart will start beating faster to provide more oxygen to your muscles. Lovelock describes Gaia as, “…a complex living entity…which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.” Part Two: The Earth is not as nurturing as the…

and see. He proceeded to stretch his arms and broke the egg in two, releasing the matters of the universe. Lighter and more pure elements drifted upwards, and heavier, impure elements moved downwards, creating Heaven and the Earth. These two elements are Yin, which is the Earth, and Yang, which is Heaven.…

Fossil Fuel Responsibility on Ice Sheet Melt Fossil fuels are the most important assets responsible for the humanity survivor. It gives the humanity, oil, petroleum, energy, gas to cook, heat for warm ourselves in the cold nights, production of asphalt, and the production of products like plastic, which we are completely dependent to it. But, the environment is being damaged with the excessive and no controlled harvesting of those fuels. The environment is being damaged, because big…