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Clouds
478 Words - 2 Pages.... according to the ' altitude.
First, we have the high that range in altitude from 16,500 to 45,000 feet. In this division we have the cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus . A cirrus cloud appears in delicate, feather-like bands that are not attached to each other, and is usually white with no shading. Cirrocumulus appear like very small round balls or flakes. The cirrocumulus sometimes form a pattern of a buttermilk sky. The cirrostratus sometimes form tangled webs or thin whitish sheets. A large ring or halo is sometimes seen around the sun or moon when the cirrostratus covers the sky.
The middle layer of range in altitude from 6,500 to 23,000 feet. The al ....
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Acid Rain 5
3019 Words - 11 Pages.... in the seven most eastern provinces along with their limits and how much sulphur dioxide they emitted in 1980, 1990, 1994, 1995, and 1996. It also contains sulphur emissions from major sources from four Canadian provinces as well as sulphur dioxide emissions from electric power generators in three Canadian provinces. There are also some interesting questions and answers and facts are included also.
This information was organized from various websites. It also contains information from a newspaper article about a new monitoring site for acid rain in Irish Cove located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
ACID RAIN
The atmosphere, unpolluted, is the means of life on earth. It i ....
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Cellular Respiration
366 Words - 2 Pages.... been formed. As the pyruvic acid molecules make their way toward the mitochondria, two more molecules of NADH are formed. A carbon atom also breaks off and combines with two oxygen atoms to produce the waste product carbon dioxide. As a result of these reactions, each pyruvic acid molecule is transformed into a two-carbon compound called an acetyl group. The two acetyl groups combine with a molecule of coenzyme A each to form two acetyl coenzyme A molecules. These molecules are processed in a complex pathway called the Krebs cycle. As the Krebs cycle progresses through both pyruvic acid molecules, six molecules of NADH, two molecules of ATP, and additional carbon di ....
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Deinonychus Antirrhopus
661 Words - 3 Pages.... prey. The jaws of its relatively large head were equipped with large, jagged teeth. The three toes of the forelimbs were armed with long, curved claws, one of which earned the animal its name: the second toe bore a 5 in hook -shaped, retractable claw that must have been a formidable offensive weapon. Deinonychus is known from fossil remains found in south central Montana during the 1960’s. It was a carnivorous, bird-like creature with characteristics similar to that of a Velociraptor ( one of the stars from Jurassic Park ). This fearsome beast was quite a ravage hunter. The Deinonychus attacked its larger prey in packs and often were successful in doing so because of ....
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Elephantiasis
291 Words - 2 Pages.... due to a thickening of the
skin and the underlying tissues. It results from a long term
interference with the flow of lymphatic fluid away from these
tissues. The most frequently affected part is the leg. The most
common cause of lymphatic obstruction is filaries. Filaries is
caused chiefly by the species Wuchereria. When you have
wherever it is located your skin will become rough
and thickened like the skin of an elephant.
Over 1 billion people in 73 countries are at risk of getting
elephantiasis, and there are over 120 million people who
already have it.
New research has determined that albendazole, which has
already become a standard treatment to figh ....
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Lymphoma
1532 Words - 6 Pages.... that Hodgkin’s disease has a Reed-Sternberg cell present in the areas infected with the cancer. Hodgkin’s disease occurs mainly in people between 15 and 40 or over 55. Non-Hodgkin’s type cancer is much more common than Hodgkin’s disease. Non-Hodgkin’s is a group of over 29 types of . These are classified by the US National Cancer society as aggressive or fast multiplying or indolent, slow multiplying. ( Information Network)
The lymphatic system protects the body from agents that could cause disease like bacteria or viruses. Within this system, that consists of organs such as the spleen and tonsils, there are organs that destroy foreign age ....
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Luggerhead Turtle
300 Words - 2 Pages.... it goes through, so read on.
The Luggerhead is born underground in sand near the shore and takes about thirty-six hours to dig itself out of the nest. When it is born it is the about the size of a child's hand. It eats the Portuguese Man of War, a very deadly jellyfish. It has very tough skin so it does not have to worry about getting stung by the jellyfish.
It lives in the ocean all of its life and lays its eggs on the shore, when the babies are born they go on their own to their own life. The turtle lives in a type of weed which floats in the ocean drifting with the currents, the environment is very bad for the turtle since there is a lot of offshore dumping by ships, ....
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Are UFOs Real?
1817 Words - 7 Pages.... at one particular time. After the great appearance of UFO's did become so popular it seems as if the media did as well. Whatever the media says or mentions one breath of usually spreads so quick and gets so out of hand it is almost as unbelievable as a UFO being real. Another odd fact about UFO's is that if they are suppose to be out there somewhere why did the government stop research on them? Maybe they got tired of spending money on something that was getting them nowhere. The overall and main question that has been asked for many, many years is, "Are UFO's real?' This is simply one question that can not be answered with yes or no but only answered with opinion. ....
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