country located in Central America. It is located between the North and South American continents. In Costa Rica‚ there are two main mountain ranges‚ which is the Cordillera Volcanic and the Cordillera de Talamanca. Costa Rica is known for their volcanoes. There are many aspects of Costa Rica that are unique such as its climate‚ its animal life‚ plants‚ and the people who live there. Costa Rica is home to over 2‚000 species of trees and 9‚000 different types of plants. Costa Rica has been labeled
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Plate Tectonics Designed to meet South Carolina Department of Education 2005 Science Academic Standards Table of Contents Plate Tectonics: The Beginning (slides 3 and 4) Layers of the Earth (slides 5 and 6) Standard 8-3.1 What are Tectonic Plates- movement? (slides 7 and 8) Standard 8-3.6 Tectonic Plate boundaries (slides 9-21) 1. Convergent boundary Ocean-continent (slide 10) Continent-continent (slide 11) Oceanic-oceanic (slide 12) Volcanism (slide 13) 2. Divergent boundary Sea-floor
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Hawaiian Island Chain?” My 5th Grade Science teacher asked. “Volcanoes!” One of my classmates answered. “Yes‚ many people think that the beaches are the only important natural geographic feature in Hawaii‚ but no‚ we’re also known for our volcanoes.” This was 3 years ago‚ when I had just emigrated with my family from China to Hawaii. I knew then that Hawaii was not just known for its beautiful beaches‚ but also the active volcanoes too. There were fallen leaves & branches every where
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very low comparable to levels found now at altitudes of 14‚000 feet “I believe that death by volcano and death by meteor are not inconsistent with one another. It may very well be the case that all terrestrial life on earth. one instance in which volcanoes had a major impact on dinosaurs but it happened at the end of the triassic period and not during the Cretaceous period.If giant dinosaurs had to breathe in a low-atmosphere environment‚ then such an efficient breathing system would have given them
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causing major earthquakes. Sometimes when this plates are pushed together they form fold mountains or ridges. Today we know that the continents are gradually moving apart. Therefore the there is new rocks created in between those areas. New volcanoes are created and new rocks are formed. Plate tectonics allow scientists to know about the earth’s centre. The oceanic plate slides under the continental plate because it is heavier. Once it goes under the continental plate it melts into the asthenosphere
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Ancient people studied the stars. They found patterns in the skies. Stars they recognized reappeared at different times. They were able to use the stars as a means of direction. People today study what ancient people used the stars for. People all over the world are being affected by science. For example‚ In 1966 China discovered the usefulness of the atom. There development for uses of nuclear power may have made them a modern scientific nation. New technology helps us in many ways. It can do
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Mount Fuji is one of the most beautiful volcanoes in the world and is a well-known tourist attraction. There are many definitions of the word “Fuji”; some are wealth‚ abundant and immortal. The ancient samurais used Fuji as a training area for hundreds of years. The volcano was also painted in many ancient artworks and it still is today. Mount Fuji is 3776 meters tall (easily the tallest mountain in japan) and has a near perfect cone (unlike other volcanoes)‚ which makes it so beautiful. Fuji
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birds. This shows that biological isolation is a major point of the uniqueness of the Australian environment. The Australian environment also has relative geological stability. The last volcanoes were active many years ago‚ and the last of the glaciers shrank and melted many years ago. We only had volcanoes and glaciers because of the separation of Pangaea therefore making the Continental Drift Theory. There is little geological activity to create or refresh fertile soils. The majority of Australia
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between true extinction and extirpation. Extirpation is the loss of a population‚ or loss of a species from a particular geographic region. A famous twentieth-century example is the extirpation of wolves from the Yellowstone region of Wyoming. The park service reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone in the 1990s‚ and these predators appear to be adapting well to their new home. True extinction must also be differentiated from pseudoextinction. Biologists studying the changes that take place in a lineage over
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Volcanic and Seismic events are major pieces of evidence towards proving that plate tectonics theory is valid (40 marks) The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth’s lithosphere (top layer of the Earth’s crust) is split up into rigid sections called plates that are moving relative to one another as they move on top of the underlying semi-molten mantle. These plates are either continental‚ The North American Plate‚ or oceanic‚ The Nazca Plate. Tectonic plates are powered by convection currents
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