Did you know that the frog species were the first animals with vocal cords? Did you know that seahorses are actually fish not little serpents or mermaids as legend tells us‚ and that it is the male who becomes pregnant‚ not the female? Did you know that an area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each second? If not‚ then you should definitively consider making a visit to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Dramatic architecture and bright outdoor graphics invite you to
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31‚ 1451 DEATH DATE: May 20‚ 1506 PLACE OF BIRTH: Genoa‚ Italy PLACE OF DEATH: Valladolid‚ Spain Christopher Columbus Explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa‚ Italy. His first voyage into the Atlantic Ocean in 1476 nearly cost him his life. Columbus participated in several other expeditions to Africa. 1492‚ Columbus left Spain in the Santa Maria‚ with the Pinta and the Niña along side. He has been credited for opening up the Americas to European
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Amelia Earhart had a very significant impact on the history of aviation. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean‚ and the first woman to attempt to fly around the world. She is famous for many things‚ including her piloting abilities to her suspicious disappearance in 1937. She had an amazing life discovering who she was and going on adventures while she was at it. (Women in Aviation…) Amelia was born in Atchinson‚ Kansas on July 24‚ 1897 to Amelia Otis Earhart and Edwin Earhart
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A hurricane is a type of severe tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean‚ Caribbean Sea‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This is the "scientific" meaning if we could state it that way‚ but for plebeians‚ a normal woking class it means being reclutantly taken away from home. This people that for what they have are left with zilch. This happens at least one a year for tropical countries such as Honduras‚ Nicaragua and Mexico‚ for islands such
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Alberta and make Canada one of the largest suppliers of oil and gas in the world. because of Canada’s large coastlines it also has very large fish resources including oysters‚ cod‚ mackerel‚ lobster and herring being Canada’s largest fish exports from atlantic fisheries which are located mostly of the coast Newfoundland‚ Canada’s pacific fisheries are located all along the coastline of British Columbia‚ they mainly catch and export salmon‚ herring and halibut. Inland fisheries aren’t as big nor do they
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blue because seawater is at a pH scale of around 8.6 and bromothymol blue changes from yellow to blue 6.0-7.6 pH. 5a) The regions of the world’s oceans appear most affected by the drop in the pH level are the North Atlantic Ocean and the Southern Atlantic Ocean because they show a dark orange colour on the colour coded map and that is around a -0.10 to -0.11 drop in pH level. b) The
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of Cancer and In January the ITCZ and the subtropical jet stream move southwards over the Equator and towards the Tropic of Capricorn. Q2) Doldrums are essentially areas affected by the Inter-tropical Convergence Zones‚ predominantly across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. These areas are basically low-pressure zones around the equator where the air is still and the prevailing winds are calm. Sailors noticed the stillness of the rising (and not blowing) air near the equator and gave the region the
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are unable to maintain their buoyancy and therefore‚ die because they have lost the ability of locomotion. Due to this brutality‚ the Union for the Conservation of Nature has declared 64 shark species endangered and since the 1970’s sharks in the Atlantic Ocean have declined by 50%.
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available for consumption. Reasons why transgenic salmon are on the cusp of approval is to address over fishing issues and due to the main current source of salmon (Atlantic salmon) being classified as an endangered species. Genetically modified salmon have been modified by integrating the growth hormone regulating gene from Atlantic Chinook salmon in conjunction with an antifreeze promoter gene from ocean pout(Du‚ Gong et al. 1992; Saunders‚ Fletcher et al. 1998). Conventionally salmon only grow
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the city lights were bright and striking. I had even seen what appeared to be a portrayal‚ a bear of some sort‚ composed of different colored lights‚ as if it were meant only for me. The flight was elongated it took seven hours to fly over the Atlantic Ocean and into Heathrow‚ London. For the most part it was a smooth journey
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