Equator

developing. They were busy hunting and gathering trying to get enough food to meet their human needs! The Fertile Crescent on the other hand, is located in a semiarid region in the Middle East. The region is around thirty-five degrees North of the Equator. The primary food…

strong winds that can exceed 74 miles per hour. Hurricanes use simple air convection to turn wind into a destructive device. A hurricane is formed only over warm waters near the equator. Tropical cyclones are like giant motors that use moist air as fuel, thus their reason for forming over warm ocean waters near the equator. Hurricanes use convection, the movement of hot and cold air to create monstrous storms.They begin formation by using hot humid air that rises to the top of the storm.As the…

Discovering a new world below the ocean intrigues me. I have never been one for loving ocean creatures, but I do enjoy learning about the world below us. I found several facts interesting as I read the articles including: how osmosis and salinity functions, how seawater cells move, how pH affects the ocean, how decomposition works in the environment, how upwelling stirs up nutrients, and how water temperature affects organisms. One of the interesting facts discusses why osmosis and salinity…

chromosomes to be able to start movement towards the middle of the cell. The spindle fiber continues to form and the nuclear envelope dissembles. As prometaphase comes to an end, my chromosomes began moving to the equator. Next, I moved onto metaphase. During metaphase, my chromosomes aligned at my equator. In metaphase there is an indivisible plate called the metaphase plate. All of my centromeres were placed around this plate in a circular arrangement. This gives an even amount of chromosomes…

Gymnosperms hence exhibit the inverse of the general latitudinal diversity gradient: in species richness from the equator to the poles, and decreasing at equatorial latitudes. The observed pattern is apparent when considering gymnosperms as a group and when the group is split into separate lineages. One downfall of their analysis is, however, that the varying availability of land approaching the equator was not taken into account, which would perhaps be a confounding factor. While this needs to…

seasons are roughly twice the length of those on Earth since it takes Mars 687 days to circle the sun (which is more than earth’s 360 day orbit around the sun) and the seasons are more extreme in one side of the equator (South) and less extreme in the other (north). In the northern side of the equator, spring is the longest season at seven months. Summer and fall are both around six months long, and Winter is just four months long (During this time almost 20% of the air freezes). It’s…

Guns, Germs and Steel Essay There is a technological disparity between different countries and civilizations because of what their geography and what type of climate they have. The climate and natural resources determine how the civilization developed. The Europeans geography controlled their agriculture giving them abundant crops, the ability to domesticate animals to increase productive development, immunity to deadly germs as a result of their exposure to their animals, and the ability to…

17. Biomes: Desert versus Tropical Rainforest Deserts have and average temperature of over 64 F (18 C) year round. Less than 50 am of rain falls in deserts per year. The latitude range is 15 to 28 degrees north and south of the equator and covers about a fifth of the earth’s surface. Plats that can survive there have adapted to lack of water by having stores in their stems and leaves. That is how a lot of animals can find enough water to survive on. The soil is very dry and sandy but tends to…

Biome Research Essay Intro A tropical rainforest is a hot and typically moist biome found near the earth’s equator. The warmth and moisture makes the tropical rainforest very suitable for many plants and animals. Therefore, it is no surprise to find that the tropical rainforest is home to over 15 million species of plants and animals within this biome. Some of the animals that are living in tropical rainforests include, the African forest elephant, the Bengal tiger, and the Chimpanzee.…

Whether humans could be categorized into races or subspecies is still a huge controversy within the society. The biological definition of race is: “Race: In biological taxonomy, same thing as a subspecies: when applied to humans incorporates both cultural and biological factors.” (C.Stanford et al. 2013, p. 104) The term “race” has been popularly used to differentiate people with different skin colors and other physical traits. The overuse and misuse of the term has blurred the actual meaning of…