Desert Marcus Green SCI/230 11/11/2012 Yasmin Henry Desert biomes can be defined as sandy regions that have very little rainfall as less than 50 cm a year with extreme temperatures and very scare vegetation. The fact that deserts are so dry the temperatures can change drastically‚ during the day temperatures can be as hot as 32 degrees Celsius‚ but at night temperatures can drop as low as -4 degrees Celsius because when the sun goes down there is no moisture in the air to trap the heat
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Sahara desert General facts: Largest Desert in the world 10 percent of the African continent‚ 5000 years ago had a significantly larger mammal population‚ due to it getting dryer and over hunting in the last 100 years‚ the mammals are near extinction in the sahara. Intro: Definition of desert: “a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all” Deserts cover about one fifth of our planet‚ and are caused by extremely
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Danger in the Desert By T.S. Fields Robbie and Scott Ratliff are brothers‚ brothers that pick on each other. Scott is the older brother and Robbie is the younger brother. Their ages are nine and eleven. Their dad died before the story started. They fight all the time. At the beginning of the story‚ Robbie “accidently” threw away Scott’s new Boy Scout badges. Scott chases Robbie into the house with a hose pipe. You know that didn’t end well. Their mom came home to discover that the
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" The flower is god’s finest workmanship in the world. It is his finest gift to mankind." Flowers hold grace‚ beauty‚ and love all inside a small‚ delicate‚ warm hearted piece of nature. Yes‚ flowers are nothing more than a foot tall‚ but the joy and happiness it brings to one‚ overpowers it by twenty. I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman The flower is a pure‚ beautiful creation of nature. Everyday we are exposed to the enriched colors and charming qualities
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Desert Places by Robert Frost Snow falling and night falling fast‚ oh‚ fast In a field I looked into going past‚ And the ground almost covered smooth in snow‚ But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it - it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. And lonely as it is‚ that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less - A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
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ON FLOWERS The flowers that grow to glad all earth Are emblems of a better birth‚ When we shall wake beyond the skies‚ And see the plains of heaven arise. The trees that bud and blossom forth‚ Throughout the world from south to north‚ Are tokens that a life will bloom When manhood’s passed beyond the tomb. FLOWERS are the gems that give color to the poetry of nature‚ and to cultivate a taste for them helps to beautify our minds. They assist at times in expressing our feelings and thoughts
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LOST IN THE DESERT! By David Evans Natural Sciences Penn College/PSU Williamsport‚ PA Part I: July 13th‚ AM Mark‚ a white‚ 35-year-old male weighing approximately 70 kilogram (kg) started a three-hour drive across the desert on US 95 from Yuma‚ Arizona‚ to Blythe‚ California. He set out at 7 AM on what was expected to be a very hot July day. He anticipated that it would take him about three hours to reach Blythe—plenty of time to make his 11 AM appointment with Sarah‚ his fiancée. When he failed
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Australian Desert 1. The Tropic of Capricorn passes thru the center of Australia. This means the country lies close enough to trade wind latitudes for the prevailing winds to be from the southeast. These bring maritime conditions‚ with abundant rain‚ to the coast of New South Wales and Queensland. 2. Inland lies the Great Dividing Range‚ a mountain range running the length of the country parallel to the east coast. 3. Lands to the west of the mountains lie in a rain shadow. 4. 40% of Australia’s
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The Loss of Innocence Alice Walker (1944)‚ an African/American woman was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia. She won the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her best-known novel‚ The Color Purple (1982). Her short story‚ The Flowers‚ is from 1973‚ a time where the Civil Rights Movement was trying to create an equal society‚ where blacks and whites could live peacefully together. It was also a time‚ where many African-American people lived in fear of the racism of the white (reportingcivilrights)
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Flowers play important roles in our everyday lives. They are beneficial to all of us. When someone is in the hospital‚ we bring flowers to cheer them up. Flowers are a great "pick-me-up." You send flowers to your loved ones on special occasions like Mother’s Day or on birthdays to show how much you care. You might even get cuttings out of your garden to brighten up a room or for the fragrance. Flowers also have healing properties. Not only do flowers help relieve stress‚ they are used in medicine
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