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For example, the polar regions of the earth reflect sunlight because their solar angle is so low, due to their latitude, so they derive little heat from the constant sun they receive. At the equator's latitude, in contrast, things are much warmer and more humid because there is less reflection. Higher altitudes are colder and dryer than lower elevations. Oceans moderate temperature and increase humidity, while inland locations are dryer and more prone to extremes of hot and cold, and also more extreme weather events, like the tornados that often affect the Midwest. Local terrain like mountains can cause clouds and precipitations on the side of the summit closest to the wind ("Earth's climate and climate change," 2007, PowerPoint Presentation).
Explain why our energy depends on fossil fuel and why it is a major problem for the U.S. And environmentally for the world.
Greenhouse gases are chemically stable gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, oxides of nitrogen, and halocarbons that trap infrared radiation emitted from the earth. Fossil fuel burning accounts for 65% of CO2 in the atmosphere and take a long time to dissipate...
The earth's temperature is steadily getting warmer as a result of humanity's dependence upon fossil fuels for manufacturing, heating, cooling, and other aspects that enable what we think of as modern life to function. Also, the developing world is emitting more of these fossil fuels, and its population is rapidly expanding. Climate change is occurring as the result of human factors that the earth cannot support, unlike the incremental changes that affected it before human beings began to industrialize their lifestyle.
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Earth's climate and climate change." (2007). PowerPoint Presentation. Retrieved 5 Oct 2007 at http://nlc.gats-inc.com/nlc_epo/epo_climate_lesson.ppt#269,7,ClimateData
Earth's surface." (2007). Discovery Magazine. Retrieved 5 Oct 2007 at http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/earthssurface/
Exploring Earth." (2007). Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved 5 Oct 2007 at http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2101/es2101page03.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
Works Cited
Earth's climate and climate change." (2007). PowerPoint Presentation. Retrieved 5 Oct 2007 at http://nlc.gats-inc.com/nlc_epo/epo_climate_lesson.ppt#269,7,ClimateData
Earth's surface." (2007). Discovery Magazine. Retrieved 5 Oct 2007 at http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/earthssurface/
Exploring Earth." (2007). Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved 5 Oct 2007 at http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2101/es2101page03.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
Loans needed to buy the equipment and seeds create indebtedness to Western banks. Western professionals are needed to intervene and to manage. The productivity of monocrops (e.g., rice or maize) undermines other native crops. Routledge writes, "The project destabilized traditional farming methods, which further rationalized the use of new technologies from the West, and the displacement of traditional foodstuffs by the HYVs" (316). The whole agro-food system has damaged
In such a vast place, regions and sub-regions have changed hands many times - the vagaries of political control have played their part too. Yet one fact stands out - and that is that, the great change which the area is now witnessing is, for the most part, of recent origin. It is a cultural phenomenon. Yes, it involves the exploitation of different environments, and the interaction of different
57). This makes the idea that the minority communities that are using the community as a "springboard" for assimilation because there are less of the domestic non-Hispanic whites in the areas in which immigrants would typically assimilate. There has even been the development of what is referred to as planned communities. Irvine California serves as a good example of such a development. Irvine was developed from ranch lands from a
Economic Geographies of Contemporary Brazil Economic geographies of contemporary Latin America (Brazil), using globalization theories Economic geography is defined as the branch of Geography that is concerned with the interrelations between the economic and the physical conditions to the production and distribution of the available commodities or resources (Merrriam Webster Incorporated, 2011). It deals with the influence of both the organic and inorganic environment on the activities of man. This paper is focused
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