Highway Hazards Around 2200 road accident where people are injured occur every year at or in road works‚ so its hardly surprising that road workers involved in highway maintenance are said to have one of the top 20 most dangerous jobs. 18 August 2004‚ an articulated lorry travelling at 55mph in a 30mph zone ploughed through a line of traffic cones in the Holmesdale Tunnel in Enfield and hit a white works van. The van driver‚ who was standing next to his van‚ was crushed against a crash barrier
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winter if worms stay in the wet soil they will drown. The worm is an herbivore‚ this is important as birds feed on worms for nutrition and worms feed on nutrients from the soil and leaf litter in the fertile part of the soil called the humus. The worm increases the soil fertility by excreting the leaf litter. The worm has an external gas exchange system which is their skin‚ as they have no internal organs. The worm breathes through its skin as you can see in fig3 in the annotated diagram. The
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Investigation into Succession in Sand Dunes. Scientific Knowledge: Succession is a long-term direction of change in the composition of a community‚ brought about by the organisms themselves. Primary succession occurs when a community develops on bare/uncolonised ground‚ which has never had vegetation growing on it. A good example of primary succession is that of succession on sand dunes. Secondary succession occurs on ground that has previously been colonised but is now available because
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The Decline of the Whales Whales are the largest living mammals in the world. “Whale lifespans are about 40-100 years” says John Corbett from the Marine Life Museum. (1) Scientist have concluded that whales are intelligent creatures because they have their own language in which they communicate‚ it is called echolocation. Whales have intricate social behaviours and live in social groups just like humans do. So it is fair to say
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the indirect dumping of coastal runoff and the direct discarding of waste into the ocean by commercial and fishing vessels. In general‚ coastal runoff is primarily generated by the accumulation of litter being swept out to sea through storm sewer systems. Especially after an unusually dry spring‚ litter that has accumulated on streets and in storm sewers will overwhelm water treatment plants when heavy rains arrive‚ allowing floating objects to float right
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Together with many wild animals of the world today‚ the Amur leopard is facing the likelihood of extinction. Their threat is not by means of natural selection or a changing world but by man who has deliberately or unknowingly depleted their habitat and community. Only mans’ intervention and realization of the problem can hope to save these animals (Garman 1996). According to Kutscherenko (1995) the wild population of the Amur leopard has dwindled to an estimated 120 to 140 leopards‚ 30 of which
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POINTERS ON RAISING RABBITS For Beginners: - Raisers can start with one male and two females - It is best to buy them when they are 2 months old right after they weaned. - Be sure to buy your breeding stock only from reliable sources. - Select your rabbits that are the offspring of prolific does who knew how to suckle or nurse their young. - Pick out aggressive‚ well develop bucks. - Bucks and does selected should be both vigorous‚ healthy and free from defects. - Raisers should provide
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The cattle need to mimic nature by trampling heavily on the grass‚ when the grass is trampled it is covered in dung‚ urine‚ litter and mulch and that soil then holds and absorbs rain to store carbon and break down methane. Plants can then grow without using fire. By making use of Holistic Management and planned grazing this addresses all of natures complexities and our social
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This manual will consist of basics‚ marketing‚ and programming for an introduction to Geocaching | Table of Contents Introduction 2 Basics 3 Marketing 5 Program Plan 8 Helpful Resources 11 Terminology 12 References 13 Introduction Geocaching is the treasure hunt for the 21st century. It allows children and adults to live out their fantasies as Indiana Jones using not an ancient map‚ but a GPS. New technology has allowed
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furniture‚ clothing‚ food scraps‚ yard trimming and other items – ends up in landfills. Garbage (also known as rubbish‚ trash‚ refuse‚ waste‚ junk and litter) is unwanted or useless materials. In biology‚ it is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are spelled from living organisms‚ metabolic waste‚ such as urea‚ sweat or feces. Litter is waste which has been disposed in properly. Feces contain large quantities of fresh and soft texturized waste products. Waste is directly linked to human
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