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Earth Sciences is the study of the Earth in terms of Geography, Geology, Geophysics, etc. It combines the use of Sciences such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics to understand the Earth System.
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the four oceans are the Atlantic ocean, pacific ocean, arctic ocean, and Indian ocean
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A covalent bond
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It would really depend on the form the copper is in. As an example if it was rolled copper the tensile strength would be around...
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Even though the North Pole is tilted toward the sun, it is not tilted all the way (to 90 degrees). The sun still remains low in...
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See this webpage: www.aboutus.org/MiniScience.com
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object600kg race cartraveling at 50 m/sKinetis engry relative to the baseball?911help : you use it all the time, it is movement....
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organism which cannot produce food by its own are called heterotrophs
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In the past, the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field has reversed, many times over. This was discovered in samples of the...
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Taiwan has small amounts of natural gas, coal, limestone, asbestos and marble.
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You're here, aren't you? We are living in the Cenozoic era right now. Anything after the Cretaceous period is considered...
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These are vents through which volcanic gases and water vapour escape to the earth's surfaec.Fumaroles are formed when magma heats...
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It is something that cano be reused such as petroleum and if we run out their would be no energy
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Sand is created from the weathering and erosion of rock and rock particles to a size that is between .06-2.0 mm in diameter. Sand...
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Alfred Wegener was a German geologist from the early 20th century, that was the first to theorize, and provide some fossil...
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No. The Grand Canyon is in Western Arizona. and the Colorado river runs from the rockies in Colorado, through Utah and into...
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H3PO4 is the formula for phosphoric acid, also called orthophosphoric acid. For details...
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Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, and Canada.
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The use of Nuclear Fission has many drawbacks. 1) is the chance of a Nuclear Meltdown which can leak a lot of radiation, which...
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Earth's solid mass is about 32% iron, 30% oxygen, 15% silicon, 14% magnesium, 3% sulfur, 2% nickel, 1.5% calcium, and 1.4%...
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water
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mitosis
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Try googling it. Or maybe wikipedia free encyclopedia.All I know is that it's June 20, or something like that in The southern...
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5 - 40 km thick depending where it is being measured. the greater the thickness the higher up you will be (mountain ranges) and...
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its bc of life
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I'm not sure what the brightest moon is in the Solar System but I did find this bit of information. Hope it helps in some way....
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the sun and the Earth's magnetic field create the magnetosphere.
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Yes, it does, but very slowly. The current rotation of the Moon is a result of "tidal locking" with the Earth. For each orbit...
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Properties of Minerals as an Aid to Identification Minerals possess a number of physical properties that aid in their...
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welll,it has something to do with evaporation and and.....it like.....also has something to do with pollution idk i didn't read...
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nobody knows probably mom or hey.
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There is much evidence that Pangaea existed and that the seven continents used to be as one. Here are just some: 1. The most...
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it is a synthetic polymer. depends on how you made it
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It takes 4 hours.
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Electromagnetic force That answer up there is so wrong. the right answer is gravity
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firstly anyone knows that I'm 8 and I'm answering this but anyway as the earth rotates around the sun it also spins it it's own...
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Pigeon droppings... its natural!
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same
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The infrared spectum since this is attributed to heat.
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First thing is that it is not the shadow of anything. The side where sun's light is absent. We call it as new moon as a new...
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magnetism
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The extremely high pressure at the inner core drives the melting point of the iron and other materials up beyond the temperature...
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By convection (air warmed by the fire circulates through the room) and radiation (infrared energy given off by the fire is...
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Glucose is a solid but it can turn to a liquid after a certain temperature. It is used in chewing gum and can be found in our...
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when the water gets blown by the wind horizontally, it creates waves. the stronger the wind gets the bigger the wave
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hydrosphere
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The sun in the main source of energy, providing heat-for animals, solar powes, ect...., which then turns to energy. We then use...
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because otherwise the plants wouldn't live and then we wouldn't be able to get any oxygen from the plants so then we will all be...
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Mushrooms are one type. Horse Mushroom Jew's Ear Field Mushroom Bay Bolete Cep or Penny Bun St George's Mushroom, ...
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the alternative form of a gene is called an "allele." Alleles occur at the same locus on homologous chromosones, thus govern the...
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Venus and Uranus. If viewed from above the Sun's north pole, all of the planets are orbiting in a counter-clockwise direction;...
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The sum of the measures of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. First, calculate the sum of the two known angles. Then...
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several peices of small continentall crust coiled and welded together more than a billion years ago
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Aurora Australis means "Southern Lights", the opposite to "Aurora Borealis" in the north. (Aurora was the Roman goddess of dawn,...
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The world's larges river basin is the Amazon river basin.
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magnents balanced
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It is called the loblolly pine, or the long needle pine. Hooweestik.
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no. it melts An iceberg will float as long as it is in water. If you could put an iceberg in a liquid less dense than ice,...
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Wood hardness is rated on the Janka scale, which measures how many pounds of force it takes to drive a 0.444" steel ball halfway...
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UCKZ - found last night on site linked below See the Related Links for "Sailwx" to the bottom for the answer.
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The amount of energy to boil water depends on two things: the amount of water and the temperature of the water when you start....
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The most common 4 are Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma. But there are actually many more classifications of Matter than 4, and...
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No, anise is not an idigo plant. Idigo is a deep blue "indian" dye that can be extracted from the anil plant, specifically anil...
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Loess is a wind-blown sedimentary deposit. Good examples are found in China and Siberia. Loess (pronounced LOH ihs or lehs) is a...
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Mirages are caused by a distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air. They are also called fata morgana.
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The Arabian Peninsula oil will be largely depleted of sweet crude by 2020
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seismograph
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There are one million (1,000,000, 1 x 106) square meters in a square kilometer. There are 1000 meters in 1 kilometer. Thus to...
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Water Vapor in the air is measured using a sling psychrometer and the psychometric scale. Also, if you know the humidity and dry...
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in a nutshell, it leads to poor irrigation, and thus drought.
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Lightning can kill you. either if your out or in the water it can kill you. since water is an excellent electricity current...
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The materials carbon and kevlar fiber composites have the highest strength to weight ratio. Molded panels and structures are...
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Oceanography, also called oceanology or marine science, is a huge science considered a branch of the Earth sciences. Oceanography...
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no such thing. there are non vascular plants but they ar short and can not grow to the size of trees
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1 Because the density of the rock is greater than the density of the water, and the shape of the rock allows it to submerge...
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I don't know of any riddle but if it has 5 needles to a group its a white pine
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Elements can only get so big before it becomes impossible to make more, but each element can be used in many different ways to...
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Isostasy is a term used in Geology to refer to the state of gravitational equilibrium between the Earth's lithosphere and...
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This is a very general question and nearly impossible to answer without more specific details of the plant. The water...
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The blue whale, over 100 feet long and 100 tons in weight. The Blue Whale
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A shoal, sandbar (or just bar in context), or sandbank is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water,...
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As it turns out, yes, it is a very good material for preservation, but probably not in a practical sense of modern funeral...
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The earths axis points up and down or north and south. The north pole points almost directly toward the North Star, Polaris, the...
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All plants need water to grow.
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Valleys are the low areas between or near mountain ranges.
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Yes. It is very rare, but from time to time it snows in Rome. Generally this happens in the outskirts where the altitude is a bit...
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