There are many theories on how dinosaurs became extinct but scientists have not yet found a proven reason why. About sixty-five million years ago Dinosauriformes‚ or as we call them Dinosaurs‚ walked and roamed planet Earth. These massive carnivores‚ herbivores‚ and omnivores lived many years on earth before humans appeared. There were several variations of dinosaurs such as land‚ sea‚ and air dinosaurs. For a millions of years the dinosaurs thrived in their environment. They had an abundant food
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Iceland are probably the biggest and most interesting land forms in this country. There are many different eruptions in volcanoes but according to Landmark Visitor Guide by Cathy Harlow‚ “the most common eruptions in Iceland are the fissure type‚ where lava and ash are ejected along a rift and form small craters around the eruption site” (p. 22). In
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Chakraborty Roll: 12 MBA IB 2008 -11 1. CATEGORY: MOBILE PHONES BRAND: LAVA A10 Brief Description of the Commercial: The advertisement shows a cashier (an attractive lady)‚ in a retail mall‚ meeting two shoppers at the payment counter. The first man carries an ordinary phone (though it subtly looks like Samsung Corby because of the yellow back cover) and the cashier hands him a few candies in lieu of change. The second man carries the Lava A10 phone and on seeing the phone‚ the cashier hands him a few condoms
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Harbor - Oahu‚ Hawaii). Besides the Pearl Harbor and other historical landmarks‚ Hawaii boasts with other cultural and natural attractions. Totem poles‚ volcanos‚ rushing waterfalls‚ lava canyons and gardens are just a few of the examples. Waimea Canyon in Kauai‚ for example‚ is a “valley‚ known for its reddish lava beds.” The “picturesque canyon reminds many people who see it of Arizona’s Grand Canyon‚” just much smaller. Kauai’s version is bursting with ever-changing color‚ you can stop by the
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Illustration of original lateral continuity. Law of Cross-cutting Relationships Inclusions •An inclusion is a piece of rock that is enclosed within another rock •Which layer is younger? Inclusions Baked Contacts Contact Metamorphism Lava flow Geologic History • A cross-section through the earth reveals the variety of geologic features. View 1 of this animation identifies a variety of geologic features; View 2 animates the sequence of events that produced these features‚ and
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WHAT ARE ROCKS? What are Rocks? Making up most of the Earth’s crust‚ rocks are usually defined as a mixture of common minerals. Rocks can be hard or soft‚ as small as a grain or as large as a building. Combined with the effects of weathering and vegetation (vegetation can also weather rock as the tree or bush is "yanked" out of the ground by forces of wind or by merely falling over after it has died. Root systems tend to go under the surface and attach themselves to
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Evaluate how plate tectonics theory helps our understanding of the distribution of seismic and volcanic events. Plate tectonics is a relatively new science. It’s partially explained in the sense that we still don’t know fully about how the plates came together‚ what they were before they were the seven continents we know today. We already know‚ or have a theory‚ about what our world was like a long time ago and so if we already know that the plates can pull and push against each other‚ then surely
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Rapa Nui Paper Rapa Nui is the most South Eastern point of the Polynesian triangle located in the Pacific Ocean. Rapa Nui is also known as Easter Island. This name came about through the voyage of Jacob Roggeveen. In the 18th century‚ this Dutch explorer sailed the south Pacific. He then came across the island on April 5‚ 1722‚ which so happened to be on Easter Sunday in the Christian calendar. For tradition sake‚ He then renamed the island Paach-Eyland‚ which translates to “Easter Island”. The
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volcanic caldera‚ and the people of Greece. The volcanic caldera last erupted in 1950. This eruption was very minor and the lava volume was only 7 x 104 cubic meters. The most known eruption of Thera/the volcanic caldera is in 1610 BC‚ an eruption occurred and wiped out the Minoan civilization‚ and created massive tsunami’s. This eruption caused a lot of land damage‚ and had a lava volume of 9.9 x 1010 cubic meters. It was one of the largest eruptions in the last 10‚000 years. [5] Currently the volcanic
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Extinction of Dinosaurs Two-hundred and thirty million years ago the first dinosaur-like creature roamed the earth. Dinosaurs were a very successful and diverse group‚ dominating the terrestrial environments of the earth for 160 million years. The apparently sudden mass extinction of dinosaurs marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Though there is not one definitive explanation to explain dinosaurs’ extinction‚ there are various theories that attempt to account for the
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