Littoral zone

the more non-rural areas. As urbanization takes place it’s not happening in random open areas throughout the world, developing cities are now focusing more towards growing along coastal areas where distribution is easier. Which leads to the next point, littoralization. Littoralization is just a fancy word that means for things to cluster along the coastlines. In 2012, “80 percent of people on the planet lived within sixty miles of the sea, while 75 percent of larger cities were on a coast.” To add to littoralization and its simplicity, Kilcullen also used the term “littoral zone”. He defines littoral zone as “the portion of land space that can be engaged using sea-base weapon systems, plus the adjacent sea space that can be engaged using land-based weapon systems, and the surrounding airspace and cyberspace.” Essentially what this means is that as weapon systems and technology continue to grow, the littoral zones of those areas will expand with it. The last and most important trend that he brings up is the electronic network connectivity. “In the year 2000, there were roughly thirty thousand cell phones in Nigeria. Current day there are roughly one hundred and thirteen million cell phones.” That data speaks for itself, especially considering the location of the country and its economical state. In the United States alone there are over two hundred and seven million smartphone users. That’s only smartphones and almost double what was recorded in Nigeria. Over the year’s…

Ivan MartinRigging Trade ClassJeremy Varner19 October 2016LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) “Independence Variant Class”It’s a UFO! Is a “Star-Destroyer” Ship! No! Is the new Navy LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) Independence Class! Why the U.S Navy is in need of a new class of ship? The main reason of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was developed is to provide the United States Navy with a small, multi-mission ship capable of being interdependent, and perform join task operations. After Desert…

This lower budget means that small departments can put less officers and less vehicles on the roads. Having less officers means that the departments must break its jurisdiction into larger zones and may not be able to place more than one unit in each zone. This means that officers are further away from back up and response times may be longer than those experienced in the city. Rural departments are unlikely to afford specialized units meaning that bomb disposal, drug cases, and special victims…

1. The division between the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones. The epipelagic zone is the area most generally known to humans where most marine mammals live and many go scuba diving. Most sunlight penetrates here. The mesopelagic zone is known as the twilight zone and gets darker as depth increases. Nutrients are limited here; many animals have large teeth to capture prey. The presence of less light is the reason for the division causing the animals in the mesopelagic zone to adapt. The…

Rocky intertidal zonation at Lawrencetown Beach Introduction Nova Scotia has an extensive coastline with varying degrees of exposure. The intertidal zone (littoral zone) is where the ocean meets land and around Nova Scotia’s coast this zone is highly diverse, from salt marshes to mudflats and rocky shores. The intertidal zone is the area that is exposed to air at low tide and submerged by water at high tide and the species that are located here need to tolerate various levels of exposure. The…

to be found in the conventional, civilized world. The scenes that take place outside the Zone are painted in a condemning light. The home of the Stalker, the building and town in which he resides that is slowly exposed to the viewer in the beginning portion of the film, is depicted as an empty, hopeless place. The incentive for this portrayal is the origin of this place’s ruin. While the Zone represents a more organic decay, demonstrative of the inevitable continuation of life, this place is the…

Enemies, threats such as anti-ship missiles, speed boats, submarines, shore-based cruise missiles, littoral threats, sea mines, ballistic missiles, or asymmetric threats, missions/operations, technologies alter drastically. They require new capabilities for naval vessels. Modularity provides necessary quality attributes, reduced operational downtime, reduced shipbuilding costs, decreased construction time and many more military benefits that minimize the challenges faced. This study examines…

nutrients and lack of diversity within the competition of space and lack of predators. Despite these favourable characteristics, certain limiting factors prevented the organisms from inhabiting the site. Perhaps the most crucial limiting factor was the substrate. Since barnacles secrete an adhesive onto solid rock to withstand high velocity waves and remain sessile, a porous substrate disabled the organism to effectively attach itself to its substrate. Another factor was the competition…

Since we are in a drought, the flow was very slow, 0.096 ft/sec, and the water depth was low, and anyone could easily walk through the water. The stream’s banks and bank stability were strong and intact. The channel gradient was low and not steep, and the sinuosity was meandering/braided. The embeddedness of the rocks in the stream was about 25%. There was quite an abundant amount of vegetation, the dominant plant species were conifer trees, deciduous trees, and herbaceous. The riparian zone was…

PE Coursework Strengths The sport I have chosen is football. One of my main strengths (components of fitness) in football is my speed. The definition of speed is the ability to move quickly across the ground or moving limbs rapidly to grab or throw. In football, you use your speed for e.g; When you’re attacking and you are dribbling past a defender, you can use bursts of speed to blow past him. This means I get closer to the goal and have a better chance of scoring for me and my team. Also,…