Zambia is a country like any other prone to a wide variety of natural and human-induced hazards and disasters. Phenomena such as floods‚ extreme wind speeds‚ earthquakes‚ mudslides‚ droughts‚ wildfires‚ pest plagues‚ air and water pollution cause extensive losses to livelihoods and property‚ and claim many lives. This study attempts to bring to light disasters or hazards‚ there examples‚ as well draw attention to the challenges faced by the government of Zambia in controlling the disasters or hazards
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r/K Strategists concept Alan Soffan In nature insect makes adaptation known as adaptive stategy as a result of selective environment factor acting in a population (Horn‚ 1976). They need to have certain strategies for efficiently utilizing the available time and energy to maximize their own survival (Atkins‚ 1980).There are two extreme strategist applied by insect in adapting theirself in certain environment. R-stretegies R-strategies principally operates to maximize reproductive rates
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university FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF DEVELPOMENT STUDIES MODULE: DEMOGRAPHY‚ MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT LECTURER: REG.NUMBER: NAME: KEITH JASPER MANAKE SURNAME: DUBE LEVEL: M.O.E: QUESTION:
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Kingdom Protista: Characteristics Mostly unicellular‚ eukaryotic cells Reproduce asexually or sexually by conjugation Exhibit all three modes of nutrition Photosynthesis Ingestion Absorption Ultimately spawned all multicellular kingdoms Very diverse kingdom Difficult for taxonomists to agree on classification Diverse Modes of Nutrition Use diverse modes of nutrition Ingest
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SUSTAINABILITY AND CITY DEVELOPMENT A critique of the Implementation of the Abuja master plan By DANMOLE‚ Taibat OLAITAN M.Sc; RTP Department of Urban and Regional Planning‚ University of Lagos‚ Akoka-Yaba‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria (Being paper presented for publication by Environmental Conservation Research Team‚ FUT- Akure - Sept 2004) ABSTRACT Rapid urban expansion without effective environmental consciousness means that in virtually every urban
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Introduction Wildlife refers to non-domesticated free ranging animals in their naturally associated environment or habitat which includes terrestrial vertebrates‚ mammals and birds. The wildlife product we chose as a group is the Cape buffalo which is known by some people as the African Buffalo. 2 The group met on four consecutive occasions and the medium used for our research was all internet based. Thus the Google search engine was used throughout. This project would bring to bear the
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Name: Joshua Beh Date: 5/30/12 Per. 3 Biology Semester 2 Final Study Guide 2012 Ch. 13. 1. Define population - Consists of all the individuals of a species that live in a specific geographical area and can interbreed. 2. Define natural selection. - The differential rate of reproduction. 3. Explain how gradualism and punctuated equilibrium relate to evolution. - Both involve the species evolving either over a long period of time or rapidly. 4. What does a paleontologist do? - Scientists
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Chapter 1 Physical Context of African History: Geography and Environment 1. Although some may think of Africa as being of a single climate and terrain description‚ in reality a wide variety of land types can be found throughout Africa. How does this wide variety of climates and physical terrains affect human life and settlement patterns on the African continent? Different terrains and climates allowed for different lifestyles for Africans in different regions. Those close to the sea were
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Chapter 5: Worlds Turned Inside Out‚ 1000 – 350 BCE Introduction Leaders became thinkers and teacher‚ not kings “the axial age”- pivotal period between ancient empires and the successor empires Alternative Pathways and Ideas In Eastern Zhou China‚ large territorial states and had formulas for ordering human behavior In Greece and the Levant‚ dynamic city-states and new ideas about good governance East and South Asia‚ Caribbean coast of Mexico‚ coasts of Mediterranean have sacred categories
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commonly known as African sleeping sickness is an endemic that is responsible for posing a risk to 60 million people in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa( Fig 1) (Brun et al 2009). It is a vector- borne disease which is transmitted by the bite of Tsetse flies of the Glossina genus which injects the protozoan parasite of the genus trypanasoma to humans (Rodgers 2009). The disease appears to occur in two forms which depend on the subspecies of the parasite involved which include Trypanosoma brucie
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