5/3/13 Saving Planet Earth - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Saving Planet Earth From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Saving Planet Earth is a season of nature documentaries with a conservation theme‚ screened on BBC Television in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of its specialist factual department‚ the BBC Natural History Unit. The series featured films contributed by a number of celebrities on the plight of various endangered species‚ and coincided with the launch of the BBC Wildlife
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Elaina Samelo 5th Block Ritzus The Good Earth The Good Earth‚ written by Pearl S. Buck‚ is a book about the political and social struggles of China. Since this book was published in 1931‚ the somewhat old-fashioned style of writing reveals the era of which it was written. Although it is apparent through the writing that this book is a little older‚ it has a charm that only older books can possess. It is one of the things that actually kept my attention; the old-fashioned charm. The publishing
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TOWARDS GREENER AMRITA In India‚ Mother Earth –Bhoomatha is considered sacred.We worship our Mother Earth and therefore it should be well conserved and protected.Mother Earth is a home to all living beings‚we don’t litter our home‚then why do we litter our earth?. There is nothing called waste in this universe.It is a misplaced resource‚taking the example from the nature itself-the trees absorb all the nutrients from the mother earth and shed their leaves back to the nature.These leaves acts
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Atmosphere Homework Describe the composition of the air Air is a mixture of gases and aerosols that compose the atmosphere surrounding Earth. The primary gases of air include nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). Trace gases and aerosols make up the remaining 1% of air. The trace gases include the noble gases argon‚ neon‚ helium‚ krypton and xenon‚ hydrogen and the greenhouse gases. The aerosols are solid or liquid particles having diameters in the region of 0.001 to 10 microns‚ and include dust
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August 8‚ 2013 Peopling of the Earth The earliest full human species known today lived in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago. Early humans survived by hunting and gathering. With an economy based on hunting and gathering‚ there is a great deal of space needed for just a small community. Before migrating majorly‚ they migrated to the Levant‚ in about 25‚000 years ago a global freeze happened and it wiped them out completely. They would then later end up migrating to the Middle East from Africa
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Earth Summit International meetings aiming at drawing up measures for the environmental protection of the world. The first summit took place in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil‚ in June 1992. Treaties were made to combat global warming and protect biodiversity (the latter was not signed by the USA). The second Earth Summit was held in New York in June 1997 to review progress. The meeting agreed to work towards a global forest convention with the aim of halting the destruction of tropical and old-growth forests
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endless life in a tree. Paraphrase of the Poem: [1-9 lines] It takes a lot of time and strength to kill a tree because it grows slowly and rises out of the earth by absorbing years of sunlight air and water. So‚ it is not easy to kill a tree with a single stroke of a knife. [10-19 lines] The tree has deep roots which draws its sap from the earth. It gives rise to tiny twigs and miniature boughs. We hack and chop to kill a tree. But hacking and chopping cannot destroy it completely as green twigs
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2011 The Nature of Wang Lung All human beings show emotion‚ as emotions are a tell-tale sign of who somebody is‚ what they are to others‚ and how they react to different situations. When we examine the character Wang Lung from the book The Good Earth‚ we see an example of the purest form of the human nature working under difficult situations. Through this book‚ Wang Lung symbolizes “human nature‚” as he shows a dynamic variety of different human attributes from the beginning to the end‚ such as
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There are many different layers within the Earth. The core is at center of the Earth. The Earth’s core takes up sixteen percent of Earth’s volume‚ containing thirty-three percent of its Mass ..Pressure rises steadily inside the earth because of the weight of overlying rock. Therefore ‚the Pressure at the outer boundary of the core reaches 1.37 million atmospheres‚ 3.7 million Atmospheres. The core is made mostly of iron and nickel and possibly smaller amounts of lighter elements including sulfur
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soil will vary geographically and at different soil depths. Moisture content changes seasonally‚ varies according to the nature of the sub layers of earth‚ and the depth of the permanent water table. Since soil and water are generally more stable at deeper strata‚ it is recommended that the ground rods be placed as deep as possible into the earth‚ at the water table if possible. Also‚ ground rods should be installed where there is a stable temperature‚ i.e. below the frost line. For a grounding
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