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    Rainforest Biome

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    The Earth is considered a biosphere because other life that it sustains. However, what characteristics makes a biome and how do those characteristics shape what a biome is? Researcher claim things like climate and landforms make up areas like biomes. Through research and studies, one can accumulate ideas as to how earth’s characteristics make up its biomes. There are many different types of biomes but three are seven main types that can be split up into sub biomes. Two biomes, like the…

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    Crosscution Standards

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    main components that form the standard: Science and Engineering Practices, Disciplinary Core Ideas, and Crosscutting Concepts. The standard in this context applies to a fourth grade unit on earth 's systems, and more specifically: soils, rocks, and landforms. The disciplinary core ideas that this standard is addressing exist in two parts, ESS2.A which focuses on rainfall shaping the land and the movement of sediments through water, ice, wind, and vegetation, and ESS2.E which primarily…

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    vegetation. The vegetation in Death valley includes mostly succulents and drought resistant plants. Basically, plants that have adapted to desert conditions thrive in Death Valley. Major landforms include, deposits of sediment from floods called alluvial fans, deposits of salt, canyons, volcanoes, and other landforms found within mountain ranges. Man-made buildings include, historic buildings such as Scotty’s Castle, lodging areas, and more. The absolute…

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    The Amazon Rainforest

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    Due to the rain forest's massive size and its various feature, it holds such a lot of differing resources that people are dependent on landform. The Amazon rain forest has a wide variety different trees that are best for taking wood. The timber is used in a lot of ways, for example, like building boats or just making stuff with timber. The Amazon forest is so vast; it is a big destination for anyone, in particular, to extract timber and use it in many ways that could benefit a person's life.…

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    it could cause unrecoverable damage that could close the bridge and fall, killing several landforms traveling below. And seismic engineers believe a $175 millions retrofit is required to prevent a disaster. With advanced technology and software the landforms can simulate an earthquake effect on each part of the bridge. And then decrease the damage, or try to save lives of hundreds of people. The landforms also added a place for tourist for observation to contemplate the view of the Golden Gate…

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    Rift Valley Essay

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    New crust is generated as plates pull away from each other and can either cause sea floor spreading or new land to be created. An example of a continental rift valley is the Eastern African Rift Valley which is being formed as the Eastern African plate is moving away from the main Africa plate in a north-easterly direction. Plates move apart due to convection currents in the lithosphere. As the crusts move away from each other the crust thins, tension in the lithosphere causes the plate to…

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    Slide 1: Hi Everyone, I’ll be covering Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park as my site location for the Dynamic Geologic Setting Project. Location: The Sperry Glacier is located in northwest Montana within Glacier National Park. The image on the left gives you some context with respect to the regional location. It is a small cirque glacier of about .8 square km and an average depth of 35 meters on the North slope of gunsight mountain. The area and depth are steadily decreasing however.…

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    Hypocrisy In Brazil

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    Whilst on holiday in São Paulo, Brazil, I noticed that the soil colour was completely different to the soil colour in the UK and in order to understand why, I visited the ‘Museu Catavento Cultural e Educacional’. I discovered that the soil has a high-iron content because it originates from what was possibly one of the largest volcanic spills in the Earth’s history and as the spill contained magnetite, the soil in southern Brazil is incredibly fertile where it’s called Terra Roxa. This type of…

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    flowing water model showed an example of how the channel on Mars could have looked. The model looked similar to the satellite image of the channel on Mars. The flowing water model also showed that even when water stops flowing through a channel, the landform remains. This shows that the channel on Mars could have been created through flowing water. The defining point that revealed whether or not the channel on Mars was formed by flowing water or lava was on the evidence card F and the Background…

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    Interesting fact about the weather is that it gets cold at night and warm the day. Some of these landforms are hard to cross. These landforms might be hills, mountains , rivers, or the desert . Some of these landforms can cause death or serious injures. It's easy here in America, because we have transportation. Some people might not have transportation in Guatemala. Mountains: a natural elevation of the earth's…

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