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Fossil Essays and Term Papers
Water PollutionThe great oceans are dying. The effects of pollution are taking their toll on marine life. As the Earth’s waters are being attacked by natural and man-made contaminants, marine plants and animals are paying the high price.
The definition of is the “contamination of water by foreign matter that ...
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From Water To LandThe early tetrapods were the first vertebrates to actually walk the solid earth. They began their conquest of land in the Paleozoic era around 360 million years ago. The question many paleontologists have been asking for a long period of time is whether the anatomy for locomotion on land was ...
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Life On Other Planets?1
Life in outer space? A figment of our wildest imagination or
reality? This age old question has been lingering in the heads of human
minds since the beginning of reasonable thinking. Today, these questions
still remain unanswered, although extensive research has been conducted by
scientists ...
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Alternative Fuel SourceIn one year, America will have exhausted 80% of her petroleum reserves. Will we then go to war with the Arabs for the privilege of driving our cars? Will we strip-mine our land for coal and poison the air we breathe to drive our autos an additional 100 years? Will we raze our forests for our ...
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A Wonderful Life (maybe)Remember when life was grand? You could go outside, smell the “fresh” air, walk barefoot without worring about something diseased finding it’s way into your foot.
Yes, it used to be a wonderful life.
Just think if you were a squirrel living in a hundred year old oak tree. You work all fall to ...
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Acid Rain And Its EffectsAcid rain is the result of the burning of fossil fuels, which release nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. When the two compounds react in the atmosphere, with water, oxygen, and oxidants, they form acid rain, or acid deposition. Electric utility plants mostly emit the sulfur ...
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The Uses Of MarijuanaCannabis sativa or otherwise known as Marijuana has been a controversial issue for decades. This plant can be used for medicine, fuel, paper, clothes, and even food. This once used to be an important legal crop in the United States and other countries. Why is such a useful plant not used ...
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Three Gorges DamThis report examines the Three Gorge dam project and its impacts on the environment, the people it will effect and measures that can be taken as an alternative to the dam.
I will discuss the Chinese government's reasoning for constructing the dam and the negative aspects of such a construction. ...
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The Ozone LayerIn environmental science the green house effect is a common term for the
role water vapor; carbon dioxide and ozone play in keeping the earth’s surface
warmer than it would normally be. The atmosphere is primarily transparent to
infrared radiation from the sun, which is mostly absorbed by the ...
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ConcretionsDating back to the 18th century have been known as geologic curiosity’s due to the various sizes, shapes and compositions. have also been thought to be dinosaur eggs, extra-terrestrial debris, human artifacts and animal and plant fossils. Due to these curiosity’s I will try and enlighten you ...
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The Effects Of Ultra-Violet Rays On The BodyUltra-violet rays from the sun have many different effects on the body. The UV rays do more bad than good, which means that we have to find a way to minimize the effects of UV rays on the body. These rays can eventually cause skin cancer, cataracts, and maybe even total blindness. This paper ...
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Evolution 2We act like animals, we eat like animals, and we are animals. The many theories of evolution such as Darwin’s theory of evolution prove to us that we choose to believe that we are not animals when we really are. Evolution is the sequencial process of change over periods of time, which ...
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The Greenhouse EffectThis essay is going to describe what is and
what it does.It is also going to say what causes and the
consequences of it.
What is meant by the term the greenhouse effect is that the heat
from the sun comes into the Earth's atmosphere and cannot get out so becomes
trapped.It gets its ...
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Air Pollutioncontamination of the atmosphere by gaseous, liquid, or solid wastes
that can endanger the health of human beings, plants, and animals, or that can damage
materials, reduce visibility, or produce undesirable odors.
Statistics
Every year, more than sixty-six million tons of poisonous gas is ...
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Charles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin was the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin
and Susannah Wedgewood. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury,
England where his father practiced medicine. He attended Shrewsbury
Grammar School which was a well-kn own secondary school which concentrated
on teaching ...
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Creation Vs. EvolutionThe majority of people in this world believe that a spiritual being created earth. In fact, "most religions and cultures believe the universe was created by a 'creative hand,' either a sky god or some other physical object" (Encarta 1). Think of it, as a trial to see which will win, creation or ...
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Acid Rain And Its OriginsDo you ever look outside on a rainy night and think to yourself why are we destroying our own habitat. Of course you don’t. You are more rapped up in the beauty of a calm and serene shower with the wind blowing and a gentle howl of the breeze trickling through the trees. Why would you think of ...
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Atmosphere CrisisWe are living in the midst of a great chemical experiment, and some serious consequences are becoming apparent to scientists. More than two billion pounds of chemicals are spewed into the air each year. These chemicals are brewing a disastrous stew, resulting in an . The greatest consequences of ...
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The Cry Of The WildThe “cry of the wild” can still be heard across this great land. I have heard the bugle of an elk on the Great Plains...the shrill of a bald eagle along the banks of the mightily Mississippi...the roar of a brown eagle bear on windswept tundra...and the gobble of a wild turkey among ...
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