Plant for Planet It was a bright autumn afternoon. A flock of birds were chirping; the sun was glowing like a disk of gold. But neither the sound nor the sight was affecting me. I was standing numb beside my window with a blank look‚ watching the best companion of my childhood falling over with every strike of a cruel axe. There was a mango tree beside my house. I grew up seeing this tree‚ which was also growing every year. It could be seen from my bed‚ so when I used to wake up in the
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Yein Park Dr. Wiltse English 1301 26 September 2010 Help Save the Green Planet Do people want more green in the world? Then help save the planet and go green! Going green is an effective way of lessening consumption on natural resources that people use every day. One does not have to be a treehugger and change one’s lifestyle‚ just try to make a change in doing something different everyday to help save the planet. In the United States‚ Americans consume many resources and discard many wastes
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“A stich in time saves nine.” Prevention is always better than cure‚ if we know that something with the passage of time might become dangerous then it better to take a precautionary step to combat the danger. So how many times you heard your parents and grandparents say this to you- take precaution dear and don’t give your problems a chance to arrive. So better work now and take precaution instead of fixing the damage later. This phase is applicable in many fields of life: If you are student then
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Ryan Abbott Professor Conz Book Review 4 April‚ 2013 My Green Manifesto In the educational book‚ My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism‚ David Gessner goes into depth describing Dan Driscoll’s journey down the Charles River. His adventure speaks out to the readers by influencing others to get outside more so that one can appreciate the nature that is given to us on this planet. Gessner believes that if people get outside more they will soon start to
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HOW should green computing be brought in limelight? Not everybody can afford to install solar Panel or get a new Toyota Prius‚ but there’s definitely one place where we spend the majority of our day i.e. sitting in front of the keyboard‚ without radically changing our lifestyle we can take some few small steps which can go a long way towards reducing its negative impact on the environment. We definitely can make our computing Green; here are a few ways we can compute in a Planet positive way:
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All planets except Mercury and Venus have at least one moon. Saturn has the greatest number of moons—18. In 1995‚ the Hubble Space Telescope detected what appeared to be four additional moons of Saturn; however‚ that discovery has yet to be confirmed. Planet | Number of Moons | Names of Moons | Mercury | 0 | | Venus | 0 | | Earth | 1 | The Moon (sometimes called Luna) | Mars | 2 | Phobos‚ Deimos | | Jupiter | 16* | Metis‚ Adrastea‚ Amalthea‚ Thebe‚ Io‚ Europa‚ Ganymede‚ Callisto
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Explorer Vocabulary: astronomical unit‚ dwarf planet‚ eccentricity‚ ellipse‚ gas giant‚ Kepler’s laws‚ orbit‚ orbital radius‚ period‚ planet‚ solar system‚ terrestrial planet Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. List all of the planets you can think of in our solar system. Try to list them in order from closest to farthest from the Sun. _________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which planets are most like Earth? Which are most different
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limits of our solar system there is a planet unlike any other‚ Pluto. Pluto was discovered in February of 1930 by an American astronomer‚ Clyde Tombaugh. It is the only planet to have been discovered by an American. All though we have known of the existence of Pluto for over thirty years now‚ there are still many mysteries surrounding this celestial body. Being the farthest planet has made it difficult to study Pluto‚ Adding to the obscurity of this strange planet is that the capability to send spacecraft
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Skill – Reading Comprehension Name: _________________________ Is Pluto a Planet? By: National Geographic Kids (Adapted by Have Fun Teaching) Many people are saying that Pluto is no longer a planet. Are they right? Is Pluto no longer a planet? There’s debate in the scientific world about this issue. National Geographic News says that‚ according to the International Astronomical Union‚ a full-fledged planet is an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the
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are 8 planets in our solar system; these are divided into two types‚ large gas giants (Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus and Neptune) and smaller rocky terrestrial planets (Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth and Mars). The order from closest to the Sun outwards is; Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ Mars‚ Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus and finally Neptune. Until 2006 Pluto was also classed as a planet‚ however it is now classified as a dwarf planet (meeting the first two requirements of the definition but not the third). A planet is currently
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