CHAPTER 31 OCEAN CURRENTS TYPES AND CAUSES OF CURRENTS 3100. Definitions The movement of ocean water is one of the two principal sources of discrepancy between dead reckoned and actual positions of vessels. Water in motion is called a current; the direction toward which it moves is called set‚ and its speed is called drift. Modern shipping speeds have lessened the impact of currents on a typical voyage‚ and since electronic navigation allows continuous adjustment of course‚ there is less need to
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Topic of current event (select from topics in instructions) Cells and Microscopes Source (staple a copy of the article to the back of your assignment) Popular Science magazine‚ MSNBC News online‚ CNN online‚ National Geographic magazine‚ AZ Game & Fish Dept. website‚ etc What is a stem cell? : https://student.societyforscience.org/article/what-stem-cell Summary of current event (at least 8 sentences) What is this current event discussing? Incclude important details to help readers understand
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Current Event This current event article is about the Supreme Court’s rule that allows people to give political campaigns money. The 5-4 ruling eliminated limits on how much money people can donate in total in one election season. However‚ the decision left intact the current $5‚200 limit on how much an individual can give to any single candidate during a two-year election cycle. Until now‚ an individual donor could give up to $123‚200 per cycle. The ruling means a wealthy liberal or conservative
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CURRENT STRATEGY SUMMARY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS SUPPORT SERVICES (IOSS) JOINT BASE POWELL‚ CA This document was compiled by the IOSS project office and summarizes how many of the Joint Base Powell Infrastructure‚ Operations‚ and Support Services (IOSS) requirements listed in the draft PWS were acquired in the past. Each service area is briefly covered by providing information about any current initiatives/contracts‚ current performance problems‚ and stakeholder comments about any
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Current Situation The image of professional baseball has‚ by and large‚ been an idyllic and relatively unblemished one from its roots as the national pastime in the mid-1800s until the latter part of the 20th century. Aside from the 1919 Black Sox scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to cheat‚ to "fix" the World Series‚ nothing has rocked the game as much as the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED). Since revelations about players using such substances as steroids
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Football players more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease‚ study finds By Nadia Kounang‚ CNN updated 4:38 PM EDT‚ Wed September 5‚ 2012 [pic] (CNN) -- Just hours before the 2012 NFL season kicks off‚ a new study suggests that professional football players are three times more likely to have neurodegenerative diseases than the general population. When researchers specifically looked at Alzheimer’s disease and ALS -- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease
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Current Affairs‚ General Knowledge Questions and Answers for preparing all Competitive Examinations. 1. Who is sworn in as the new Chief Justice of India? Answer: P. Sathasivam. 2. Who is sworn in as the new prime minister of Australia? Answer: Kevin Rudd 3. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy received the United NationsPublic Service Award for? Answer: For his mass contact programme initiative. 4. Who is the new Railway Minister of India? Answer: Mallikarjun Kharge 5. Who is elected
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What are your current stressors? Identify your top three and place them in order of most stressful to least. Describe your plan to deal with these top three stressors. Be specific. Current stressors: money‚ finding time to study‚ finding time to spend with my son. How do I plan to not stress about money‚ well I am very grateful it is tax season again. The money that I am receiving from my taxes‚ and the money from my loans for school‚ I am using it to pay off my bills. Right now‚ I am borrowing
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four factors that influence ocean currents. There are many factors that influence ocean currents‚ four of the factors would be planet rotation‚ wind‚ density of water‚ and gravitation. Planet rotation causes the currents to move clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Wind blows on the surface of the ocean therefore pushing the water in the direction of the wind. Different densities in the water can cause currents to form and move. Gravitation pulls
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The Leeuwin Current is a tropical current‚ consisting of warm‚ low salinity water that affects Western Australia’s coastal waters and wildlife. Currents are part of a large sub circular current system called a gyre. The currents in the Southern hemisphere gyres circulate in an anti-clockwise direction (Skinner‚ Porter & Botkin‚ 1999‚ p.249). There is a current in each of the major oceans that generally flow northwards along the western coast of continents. However‚ the Leeuwin Current flows southwards
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