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Conventional Agriculture and its Effect on Water Quality in the United States Introduction The United States contains a vast amount of natural resources within a land area that covers nearly 2.3 billion acres. Fifty-one percent of the United States land base has been converted into grassland, pasture, range, cropland, and other miscellaneous farmland uses. Agriculture uses 80% of the ground and surface water within the United States, which has an enormous effect on the water quality. 1…

Advanced Cities is about how cities have grew and became more advanced over time. As ancient Egypt grew so did trade, Queen Hatshepsut made Egypt richer through trade by trading with nearby countries. The Egyptians traded a lot to a land called Punt. Ancient Egyptians began to build houses using bricks made out of mud mixed with chopped straws. Usually richer and wealthier Egyptians slept on mats and had bigger houses with courtyards for shade, meanwhile poorer Egyptians often slept and ate on…

Currently, Lagoa Vermelha has a depth of 1.0 m, with a small central core reaching a depth of 1.4 m, while Hohn et al. (1986) described a water column up to 1.70 m. In the present study, there was a greater tendency of accumulation of fine material, with little concentration of carbonates, at the highest depths. As expected, the accumulation of fine sediment was also associated with higher concentrations of organic matter. The results obtained in the bathymetric survey showed occurrence of a…

Tennessee Tennessee is a state with moderate climates, rich cultural heritage, and a nice environment. It has warm summers and mild winters. While hiking on the Appalachian Trail you sit on a tall rocky mountain thinking all about the mountain’s history. It is a peaceful place for tourists. Tennessee had many historical events like the civil war on the battle of Shiloh. At the end of the war, much of Tennessee was destroyed. However, it is also known as the state of music because of Elvis…

nine percent of the map area. There are over 150 landslides that have currently been identified. Many of these landslides occur within the Menefee Formation and the Mancos Shale which are two of the four sedimentary rock levels. Loess is wind-blown silt and fine sand and clay. Loess forms a “blanket” that covers millions of miles of underlying bedrock. Just within Mesa Verde National Park, there is a covered area of seven percent of the map area (Carrara, 2012, p.15). Colluvium is the third…

Hurricane Katrina A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that normally occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean, North America and the North-eastern Pacific Ocean. These cyclones normally build up over parts of oceans with relatively warmer water. They derive their body from evaporating water from the ocean which condenses to form clouds and precipitate as rain when the moist air reaches saturation. The motion is imparted to the cyclones by the rotation of the earth. Tropical cyclones rotate…

farming which allowed for settlement, its closeness allowed for innovations to be made, and it acted as a natural highway for trade. The rich soil along the banks of the Nile was known as Kemet. The annual flooding of the river deposited an abundance of silt that was used for farmland. Beyond the Nile were the Libyan and Arabian deserts, so in order to be fed and have drinking water, Egyptians settled along the river . Moreover, “To the Egyptians … the Nile was a lifeline” which let them…

Dyana Postelle Many times the best way to understand civilizations is in reference to another civilization or civilizations in the same time period, or by comparing advancements in language, size, and trade, or by comparing city-state and territorial-state perameters. In this essay I will discuss the Indus Valley Civilizations, and more specifically Mohenjo-daro with regards to its similarities and differences to Mesopotamian, and Egyptian civilizations, and its status as a city-sate or…

African Americans also known as Afro-Americans of Black Americans are an indigenous group of Americans with partial or total heritage from a black tribal groups of Africa. This term may also include those persons who descend from enslaved Africans (Michelle 2012). The first African arrived in 1526 via Santo Domingo which is the present-day South Carolina. These slaves revolved and sought refuge among the local Native Americans. The first recorded Africans in the British North America was in 1619…

Coastal geomorphology is similar to geomorphology, but the area of focus is on seas and oceans (Davidson-Arnott, 2010). Researches study the development and progression of the coast and how it reacts under particular conditions including sea level changes. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report in 2013 stated that sea level rise will occur in approximately 95% of the ocean area, with estimates that seas will rise between 26 and 82 cm. Therefore, we can assume it is probable…