Papers on Science and Environment
Acid Rain
Words: 449 - Pages: 2.... thousands of kilometers away from their source. The British government has recognized that sulfur emissions from power plants in the United Kingdom are contributing to acid deposition in Scandinavia. Canadian emissions contribute substantially to in the northeastern United States, for example, and much of the sulfur falling in eastern Canada is believed to originate in the United States. In 1986 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences acknowledged that from U.S. sources had become a serious problem in the eastern United States and Canada. Although the Canadian government has agreed to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, the United State .....
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Fossil Fuels: Our Society's Dependency
Words: 540 - Pages: 2.... the same thing will happen with such things as plastic, which is
made from fossil fuels. Someone will either come up with a synthetic plastic or
come up with something to substitute for plastic. The person who comes up with
the solution will become and instant millionaire and everyone will be happy.
There is one draw back of this way of solving problems, I mean sure it's great
to wait until the demand but we should still learn from our mistakes. We should
learn to plan ahead and see what the consequences could possibly be.
We still have other demands to meet, there are three major demands of
fossil fuels and they are heating, transpor .....
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The Big Bang Theory Vs Biblical Views
Words: 351 - Pages: 2.... In this essay, I hope to present to you
why science should not exempt this supernatural phenomenon from their
studies.
The "Big Bang Theory" states that fifteen billion years ago, give
or take five billion years, the entirety of our universe was compressed
into the confines of an atomic nucleus. Known as a singularity, this is the
moment before creation when space and time did not exist. According to the
prevailing cosmological models that explain our universe, an ineffable
explosion, trillions of degrees in temperature on any measurement scale,
that was infinitely dense, created not only fundamental subatomic particles
and thus matter an .....
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Geography Examine The Reasons For Inner City Initiatives And
Words: 782 - Pages: 3.... specified 6 aims:
- to enhance job prospects and the ability of residents to compete for them
- to bring land and buildings back into use
- to improve housing conditions
- to encourage private sector investment
- to encourage self-help and improve social fabric, and
- to improve environmental quality.
The Government also set up programmes which would help these aims to be met, such as the Urban Development Corporations (e.g. LDDC London Docklands Development Corporation) and the availability of grants for urban development.
The inner cities had many problems all of which linked together to form a less affluent area which was very .....
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Nuclear Power
Words: 1419 - Pages: 6.... cleanest, cheapest, and
least polluting power plant of the two types is the hydroelectric power plant.
The main reason most countries use thermal versus the hydroelectric is because
their countries don't have enough concentrated water to create enough energy to
generate electricity. (World Book vol. 14, 586) Nuclear power plants generate
only about eleven percent of the world's electricity. There are around 316
nuclear power plants in the world that create 213,000 megawatts of electricity.
(INFOPEDIA) Radioactive, or nuclear, waste is the by-product of nuclear fission.
Fission occurs when atoms' nucleus' split and cause a nuclear reaction. .....
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Cloning
Words: 611 - Pages: 3.... For example, the introduction of cancer-causing genes
into a common infectious organism, such as the influenza virus, could be
hazardous.
We have come to believe that all human beings are equal; but even more firmly,
we are taught to believe each one of us is unique. Is that idea undercut by
cloning? That is, if you can deliberately make any number of copies of an
individual, is each one special? How special can clones feel, knowing they were
replicated like smile buttons. "We aren't just our genes, we're a whole
collection of our experiences," says Albert Jonsen. But the idea, he adds,
raises a host of issues, "from the fantastic .....
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Frog Disection
Words: 838 - Pages: 4.... digestion. The gall bladder stores bile, which breaks down the partially digested foods that, enters the small intestine. Bile has no enzymes but still manages to break down fat into tiny droplets that are ready for faster chemical breakdown. The frog’s stomach is not as complex as a herbivore’s because they have to break down cellulose, which takes a longer time. (Giffard R. & Nat, M 1986)
This concludes my study on the digestion system of the frog.
FROG'S CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
A frog has a closed circulatory system just like humans. This means blood is always enclosed in blood vessels as it circulates the organisms .....
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Quarks
Words: 592 - Pages: 3.... Physicists have attempted to knock a single quark free from a group
using a particle accelerator, but have failed. Mesons contain a quark and an
antiquark, up, down, and strange, while baryons contain three quarks
distinguished by flavours. Each has a charge that is a fraction of that of an
electron. Up and down quarks make up protons and neutrons, and can be observed
in ordinary matter. Strange quarks can be observed in omega-minus and other
short lived subatomic particles which play on part in ordinary matter(1985
Quarks).
The interpretation of quarks as physical entities poses two problems.
First, sometimes two or three identical .....
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Endangered Species Of South
Words: 1449 - Pages: 6.... Since the 1600's, however, the rate of extinction has accelerated rapidly because of human population growth and resource consumption (17). Today, most of the world's habitats are changing faster than most species can adapt to such changes through evolution, or natural selection. The current global extinction rate is estimated at about 20,000 species per year, exponentially greater than the background extinction rate (17). Many biologists believe that we are in the middle of the greatest mass extinction episode since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (18).
The survival of ecosystems (plant and animal communi .....
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Rubidium
Words: 930 - Pages: 4.... million (ppm). This makes it the 22nd most
abundant element on Earth. It is found in many minerals, and brines, along
with other elements. Seawater contains 0.2 ppm, twice the amount of
Lithium found in the oceans. Traces are found in seawater plants and
animal organisms. Very small traces of Rubidium are found in the leaves of
tobacco, tea, and coffee, as well as some other plants. Rubidium is
similar to lithium and cesium, which are found in combined forms as complex
minerals. It is not found in a pure elemental (metallic) state in nature,
but only as compounds in mineral deposits such as pollucite, carnallite,
lepidolite, leucit .....
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