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Spiders
Number of Words: 601 / Number of Pages: 3
... Its mostly
found from Kansas and Missouri, south to Texas, and west to California. Found
in sheltered places indoors and outdoors it is about 10 mm (.4 in.) long and
has an orange-yellow body with a dark violin-shaped design on its back. Its
bite isn't usually fatal to humans, the venom destroys the skin and it may take
a few months to heal. The brown recluse is mostly active at night. it feeds on
small insects that it paralyzes with its poison.
The Black Widow
The black widow, Latrodectus mactans, is a poisonous spider of the
family Theridiidae, order Araneida. The female, about 1.3 cm ...
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Hurricanes
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... swirls
around a tornado center.
As this air swirls in over the sea surface, it soaks up more and more
water vapour. At the storm center, this new supply of water vapor gets
pulled into the thunderhead updrafts, releasing still more energy as the
water vapor condenses. This makes the updrafts rise faster, pulling in
even larger amounts of air and water vapor from the storm's edges. And as
the updrafts speed up, air swirls faster and faster around the storm center.
The storm clouds, moving with the swirling air, form a coil.
In a few days the hurricane will have grown greatly in size and p ...
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Greenhousing The Wrong Way
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... Science).
Long term predictions of Global warming say that the melting of the
polar ice caps will continue causing ocean waters to rise, resulting in massive
coastal flooding of major cities such as Los Angeles and Miami.
If the next century's warming stays at a low end of estimates, the
consequences are likely to be mild. But if warming reaches the middle or top
estimates, we are likely to see such things as more frequent and more intense
heat waves, increased flooding, and droughts in different areas. Not to mention
the 60,000,000 migrants that would be caused if only 1% of our future populatio ...
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Plastic Not Paper
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... This is money we
save as well as the store owner. This is a lot of money that is going to
waste considering that plastic bags are so much more practical then paper. You
can use them for lots of other things. You can take on trips to the grocery
store, your can protect dry clothing from wet towels in an exercise bag. You
can line your house hold waste basket with them, you tote dry shoes to work on
rainy days. Hold plastic, aluminum and glass for recycling. Plastic bags are
also very practical to carry. You can carry 5 compared with 2 paper bags.
Plastic bags also hold just as many items ...
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ALCOHOLISM
Number of Words: 722 / Number of Pages: 3
... are related to alcohol abuse. Am astonishing fifty percent of all major automobile accidents, and murders are associated with alcohol. On and on the statistics point to the enormous dangers of alcohol, yet it is a legalized drug.
As bleak as this problems seems to be on society as a whole, it is also rueful for the poor soul who is alcohol dependent. The life span of the alcoholic is about ten years shorter than the non-drinker. The lifetime prevalence for in the United States is as high as fourteen percent. Taking these statements into consideration it is not difficult to believe that alcohol ...
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Weather Forecasting
Number of Words: 968 / Number of Pages: 4
... made private forecasts for small areas.
Meteorologists are people who interpret the weather, the reason I don't
say predict the weather is because even though all forecasters have the same
information and data at their fingertips, the way that they interpret what is in
front of them can be different. Meteorologists receive information from various
sources, but their interpretation of the data determines the accuracy of their
prediction.
Someone might ask, "If forecasters have so much information on a
particular area; how could they predict a flawed forecast ?" The answer to
that question li ...
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Black Powder
Number of Words: 941 / Number of Pages: 4
... other words, the size and power of their reactions. The most typical form of is the mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. Another form of this powder is known as the brown form, this is a mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur. These pieces tend to look like little hexagonal or octagonal milk chocolate pieces. However these can be modified in a way to form a more harsh explosion. This method is known as grading, were powder size is modified to hold a higher concentration of a particular substance. The charcoal used in such is considered to be ash from the wood of a willow. Th ...
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Pollution In Eastern Europe
Number of Words: 2530 / Number of Pages: 10
... harms people and the environment they live in, not pollution like carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases or other factors concerned with the global warming issue.
The causes of environmental problems and the actual problems that were caused are the first subject that must be explored. Air pollution is by far the most serious pollution problem is eastern Europe. In general, the problem was caused by the burning of coal in industry and lead-based diesel non-desulferized petrol in cars. This resulted in very high amounts of sulfur oxides (particularly sulfur dioxide which is the number one pollutant), ...
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Humpback Whales
Number of Words: 1252 / Number of Pages: 5
... the head edging the jaws.
Humpbacks have huge, mottled white flippers with rough edges that are up to one-third of its body length; these are the largest flippers of any whale. The humpback's genus, Megaptera, means "huge-wings," referring to its flippers. The flippers may have barnacles growing on them.
The deeply-notched flukes are up to 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. Humpbacks have a small dorsal fin toward the flukes.
DIET AND BALEEN
Humpback whales (like all baleen whales) are seasonal feeders and carnivores that filter feed tiny crustaceans (krill-mainly Euphausia superba, copepods, etc.), p ...
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Factors Of Parasitic Virulence
Number of Words: 2924 / Number of Pages: 11
... virulence? The two
prime factors most frequently cited (Esch and Fernandez 1993, Toft et
al. 1991) are evolutionary history and mode of transmission.
Incongruently evolved parasite-host associations are characterized by
high virulence, while congruent evolution may result in reduced
virulence (Toft et al. 1991). Parasites transmitted vertically (from
parent to offspring) tend to be less virulent than parasites
transmitted horizontally (between unrelated individuals of the same or
different species). Studies in which virulence is shown to increase
during parasite-host interaction, as i ...
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