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    put into perspective by an early Sunday morning television program on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), This Week, displayed a live segment on April 18, 2016, that presented a breakdown on the recent earthquakes that hit Equator and Japan in the past few days. Equator was granted a closer look seeing as it was challenged by an severe 7.8 magnitude earthquake which left over three hundred and fifty dead and thousands more wounded from it massive destruction which has a tendency to rise even further

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    this is called crossing over. Metaphase In Mitosis Metaphase stage the chromosomes go to the centre/equator of the spindle. The chromosomes get attached to spindle fibres at the centromere, when these contract; the individual chromatids get pulled apart slightly. In Meiosis Metaphase 1 is similar to Mitosis stage one but differs as chromosomes form a double row at the equator of the spindle instead of a single row. Anaphase In Mitosis and Meiosis Anaphase; the centromere splits

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    mass is. Anything poleward of 60 degrees is labeled as polar, and anything within 25 degrees of the equator is labeled as tropical. Continental polar (cP) air masses are usually dry and cold as there isn’t much moisture from land and it is cold due to being 60+ degrees latitude from the equator. Continental tropical (cT) air masses are dry and warm due to being above a land mass and being near the equator. Maritime is the term used for air masses origination from regions of water. This is also further

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    Comparison and Contrast Essay Hot and Cold Weather Comparisons Albert Weyant COMM/215 - Essentials of College Writing September 15, 2012 Dr. Nancy Reynolds Hot and Cold Weather Hot and cold climates will be discussed and the different comparisons between them. I will state my opinions and objectives pertaining to the two climates. The differences

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    of the world's active volcanoes are were found in the ocean. It also holds the deepest point in the world. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean. Europe is connected to the biggest continent in the world. The Arctic Ocean is completely above the equator. It is surrounded by North America, Asia, and Europe. It is also the smallest ocean in the world. The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceanic

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    around the equator is twelve hours long each season, so, the countries around the equator don’t have to change their clocks. Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea of daylight savings time in the essay he wrote called “The Economical Project”, and it was a good idea for saving money. The purpose of daylight savings time is to make more time in the summer when the earth rotates at a different angle every fall and winter, many of the angles are different around the globe above the equator. DST also

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    weather events and the motion/behaviour of the world 's currents which disperse energy to more local climate systems. Take the bar chart below, (M. Gloor, 2001) As shown on the bar chart seas at or near the equator experience the most heat flux whereas the oceans further away from the equator receive less insolation and, therefore, have a more negative heat flux as most of the heat is transferred to the atmosphere. This

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    (Geo) Systems also known as Earth systems consist of interacting physical, chemical and biological processes: all interdependent and interrelated acts combining together to form the Earth systems (Anthropocene.info, 2014). This essay discusses various Earth processes that occur on a spatial and temporal scale. Earth processes are natural occurrences that shape and are shaped by the land formation. The Earth is made up of The Four Spheres of Earth: Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Atmosphere

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    The African Conscientization is a term that is commonly used in when summing up the struggles that the African continent has gone through up to date. The struggles to achieve, social, political, economic, and democratic space are well documented in some of the African states, starting from the early eras of colonial rule till after independence. The philosophy of consciencism was first introduced by the former Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah. Conscientization often referred to as critical consciousness

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    to drive the sea, the ocean itself is not responsible for the generation of waves, tides and currents. Waves for example are influenced by the action of wind on the surface of the ocean while currents are influenced by the heat from the sun on the equator and cooler poles. Tides on the other hand are caused by gravitational forces from the moon and sun. All three contain some form of moving and potential energy and slight changes can lead to much larger downstream effects that affect nearby communities

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