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    parallel to the coastline and extend to the sea on both sides. Rift zones are fractured zones of weakness within the volcano. The Southwest rift zone is very active and has a desert effect. The crater located at this rift is called Pu’u ‘O’o; the East rift zone is called the Kupaianaha crater. Steam and sulfur vents can be seen and smelt in different areas on Kilauea. The surface of Kilauea is about 90% lava flow less than 1‚100 years old‚ and 70% of the surface is younger than 600

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    There is a positive correlation between the height at which the tennis ball was dropped and the amount of energy that it held. This energy was measured through the amount of gravitational potential energy that the tennis ball had before it was dropped‚ and by the amount of work it had done when displacing the sand. As shown in Table 2‚ when the tennis ball was dropped at a height of 1 meter‚ it only possessed a potential energy of 0.569 J. When dropped from 5.5 meters‚ it held a potential energy

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    “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor 1. Explain the significance of the name Shiftlet. The name Crater. Shiftlet suggests he is a sketchy character or that he will change. Crater is an empty space or hole‚ indicating that she is in want/need of something 2. Underline any positive references to nature. Explain the significance of these references. At what point in the story does nature change/darken? Why? Nature begins as a beautiful sunset that represents Shiftlet as

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    Planet Mercury

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    surface. If you look at the model of Mercury‚ you will see many craters on its surface. The planet has been hit many times throughout its existence by asteroids and other flying objects. Those impacts resulted in a plenty of craters covering its surface. It is believed that likewise craters had covered all Earth at one time in the past. However‚ due to the erosion of soils‚ extremely changeable weather‚ and climate conditions‚ those craters had been leveled off. Mercury has some interesting characteristics

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    air. Cache Hill is a cinder cone in northern British Columbia‚ Canada. It is thought to have last erupted in the Holocene period. Mount Eden is a scoria cone in Auckland in New Zealand. Mount Leura is a 313 metre scoria cone surrounding a dry crater Cinder cone volcanoes are just one of many types of volcanoes. A cinder cone‚ or scoria cone‚ is a steep conical hill made in large part of pyroclastic fragments. They are the simplest type of volcano and tend to be small and hill like. They are

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    Specialties in Bandung‚ Indonesia can be classified in three categories; the places‚ culinary‚ and the shopping. Bandung offers a large amount of Dutch Colonial architecture as well as a beautiful botanic garden‚ Mount Tangkuban Perahu and white crater. It has so many places offered for you to see. The Bogor Botanical Gardens (Indonesian: Kebun Raya Bogor) is a botanical garden located in Bogor‚ Indonesia‚ 60 km south of Jakarta. The gardens are in the city center and adjoin the Istana Bogor (Presidential

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    wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover>. Gale Crater was the original landing of the rover. The crater had formed about 3.5 billion years ago when a meteor hit Mars. The reason why scientist chose Gale Crater as the landing site was because it has many signs that water once existed in Mars. The reason why it is important to find out if there was water on Mars is because that is the key ingredient of life. Curiosity will have lots of clues studying this crater. Scientist have a plan for Curiosity while

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    1. Why do some scientists believe that there might have been life on Mars? Some scientists believe there was life on Mars due to a number of factors. For one we know there was at one point a substantial amount of liquid water when the planet was much younger. We also know Mars’s electromagnetic field has dampened‚ making it more susceptible to interstellar heat and radiation‚ thus eliminating the life that could have existed. There are also other several factors including volcanic activity and evidence

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    NASA LANDED ON MOON: MANNED LUNAR LANDING WAS NOT A HOX A Term Paper Presented to Dr. Paul Ellison San Francisco State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for LCA 514: Preparation for Graduate Writing by Onkar Chaubal December 2015 On July 20‚ 1969 lunar manned landing was made by NASA. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. I am not saying that this was true based on the information provided by books or media‚ but can also be proved

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    The Androgynous Man

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    as what the accumulations where doing. The main evidence of this massive collision is the fact that many planets and moons have craters. Craters are the effect of asteroids‚ meteorites‚ comets‚ etc. that has stricken the planets or moons. Craters have left a circular hole in the stricken area to where the collision has happened. For example‚ in the state of Texas‚ a crater by the name of Odessa was created by a meteorite collision with the Earth. From this documentary episode‚ I wish to learn more

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