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    characteristics for each of them. Wet Shoes - A baby born to a young couple. She is unable to speak except to the reflection that she sees in The River. Loyal to the one who protects her from the cruelty of the outside world. A person who can keep a secret. The River - The one thing or person that can bring Wet Shoes to talk. WhetherThe River is human or a sprit living within the water‚ he protects her until he is no longer needed. We don’t know who or what The River is‚ only Wet Shoes knows his secret.

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    Types of Weather 1) Sunny 2) Cloudy 3) Rainy 4) Windy Seasons Seasons are caused as the earth revolves around the sun. Seasons stay the same for a long time. Maybe 3-4 months. Summer‚ Monsoon and Winter are seasons . Apart from the seasons.. .The wind .The closeness to the sea and .The clouds also affect the weather. •The Summer season is from February to May. .The weather is hot and dry. .This type of weather is called a sunny weather. .We cool ourselves by eating ice-creams‚ having cold

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    Mood and Weather

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    How mood is affected by weather? What kind of weather do you like? Sunny‚ rainy‚ windy‚ or stormy. We all have experienced that we are angry for somehow on the extreme hot day‚ or easy to cheer up on the sunny day‚ or feel drowsy on the rainy day. Those is the main factors to affect people’s mood and activities. The mood is affected by seasonal weather. On the summer time‚ because the temperature is high‚ people are easy to be irritated‚ depressive‚ and restless. It leads violence behavior occurs

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    The Rock Cycle

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    The Rock Cycle & Classification of Rocks The rock cycle is the formation‚ breakdown and reformation of a rock as a result of sedimentary‚ igneous‚ and metamorphic processes. The rock cycle is an illustration that is used to describe how the three rock types are related and how Earth processes change a rock from one type to another over time. Each group contains a collection of rock types that differ from each other on the basis of the size‚ shape and arrangement of mineral grains. Due to the driving

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    About the Igneous rocks: The Igneous rocks are the oldest type of rocks among all. The word "Igneous" comes from a Greek word which means fire. In the deepest part of the Earth‚ the minerals are found in a liquid form‚ which is known as magma. When the magma pushes towards the surface of the Earth‚ it starts to get cool and converts into the solid Igneous rocks. The formation of Igneous Rocks: The Igneous rocks are known as the fire rocks and these are generally formed underground or above the

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    Geography notes weather

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    The Earth’s structure The crust is the surface of the earth; it is a rock layer forming the upper part of the lithosphere. The lithosphere is split into tectonic plates. The plates move slowly on a layer called the asthenosphere. Meteorites can tell us what the earth is like-these are rock and metal fragments which fall to earth from space. We know the earth’s core is hot through hot spring geezers and volcano lava. 2 types of crust OCEANIC CRUST: it is found under the oceans; it’s thin and

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    answer that describes the differences between weather and climate. Weather and Climate both take the same measuring elements of the environment and atmosphere (Temperature‚ humidity‚ pressure‚ wind speeds‚ precipitation‚ etc.). According to Sturman & Tapper (2006)‚ weather is “the state of the atmosphere at a particular point in time within a defined areas.” This in turn is opposed to Sturman & Tapper’s (2006) take on climate which is “the synthesis of weather observed over a period of many years.” As

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    Weather and Climate Neil Frederick S. Calderon‚ RMT Weather and Climate Describe the physical conditions of the atmosphere in a particular area Weather: short period Climate: long-term pattern of weather Affect human activities and ecosystem distribution Weather and Climate Weather is the day-to-day condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place. Climate refers to the average year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region. Both climate

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    EFFECT OF JOINT ROUGHNESS ON SHEAR STRENGTH OF JOINT IN GRANITE Introduction Shear strength is the extreme shear strength where a material can support before rapture. Based on Lama and Vutukuri (1978)[1]‚ it is one of the critical aspects used for designing purpose. There is no doubt that joint is a main factor that leads to failure in every rocks type including granite. In granite‚ shear strength is one of the main characteristic that needs to be determined in order to classify its strength and

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    classify rocks based on how the rocks were formed. Rocks can be classified into three categories on the basis of their formation: igneous rocks‚ sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks. I. The first type is igneous rocks (from the Greek word for fire) which are formed from molten rock (magma) and lava. A. Formation 1.coming up of magma through cracks 2. forming a layer on surface or filling other cracks 3. cooling forming a very hard igneous rock 4. magma on the surface of the earth

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