Valerie Beketova Dr. Bennett AP Environmental Science 10 December 2015 Chapter 14 Outline Earth is a very dynamic planet Earth is made up of different layers: - Core - interior made up of dense, extremely hot metal, mostly iron. It is the most inside layer of earth. - Mantle - hot, pliable layer that surrounds the most inner layer, the core. It is less dense than core.
West Maui, which was older, was built up by similar outpourings. Rocks of both volcanos consisted of tholeiitic basalt
Eugene Shoemaker is an unrecognized American geologist who impacted the lives of those who study and learn about space. Gene was born in 1928, and throughout his childhood he had a very strong passion for rocks as he began collecting various sorts of them and studying each individual one. In fifth grade, he even studied college-level textbooks about mineralogy and biology. He went to school and earned a bachelor's degree in geology, and in the 1960s he became the first director, in the astrogeology branch of the USGS, the United States Geological Survey from 1966 to 1968. The scientist undeniably inspired the world of astrogeology and the future to come of it, even without being properly recognized in the future.
How Climate and Geography Affected Mendocino Mendocino is a nice little spot by the ocean with lots of redwoods, oh and it’s really, really, isolated. The town was founded in the 1850’s and was originally a Pomo settlement called Buldam, then became a logging town and was actually named Meiggsville after Henry Meggs, and eventually became Mendocino after the spanish explorer Antonio de Mendoza. So the Pomo were a Native American tribe that was linked by location, and language, and less by political and social links.
Snorkeling Molokini Crater, Maui, Hawaii Molokini Crater is an ancient underwater volcano which created a tiny islet 3 miles offshore from Maui South. Molokini Crater Maui is a highlight of snorkeling and scuba diving in Hawaii. Molokini snorkeling is featured by very clear waters, the exuberance of healthy corals and a vast range of tropical fish. Molokini Crater is Marine Life Conservation District and also state bird sanctuary. Molokini trip is a dip to wild nature and a bright unforgettable experience.
This would be the ideal place to analyze the natural formation of earth. Moody
How would you like to live on the side of a volcano? On The Big Island of Hawaii, people can experience this during their vacation at KMC, a military camp located near the volcano Kilauea. There are currently three active volcanoes in the state of Hawaii, all of them being on or very close to the Big Island. Mauna Loa is the oldest of them, Kilauea is the most active, and Loihi is so young in comparison to the others that it hasn’t even breached the ocean’s surface. As of 2017, The Big Island is home to a population of 186,738 while 953,207 people live on the nearby island of Oahu.
The Kilauea is even part of a big island with 5 other major volcanoes called Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Hualalai and Kohala. The name for these volcanoes are also called the “Hawaiian islands”. The islands are built on the moving seafloor of the North Pacific plate. The Pacific plate is mostly on a floor by a single tectonic plate called “Pacific plate”. The volcanoes are formed on a hotspot.
Due this activity collar pieces and basalt are mixed and can be found in the tuff and magmatic debris of the cone. Diamond Head is a part of the complex of cones, vents that are associated to eruption flows which are known as Honolulu Volcanic Series. This Volcanic Series of the volcanic eruption has created many of O’ahu’ recognized landmarks, including Diamond Head. (Diamond Head Crater, n.d.) In addition, it is believed that Diamond Head was built up by a brief single eruption that occurred 300,000 years ago.
Kilauea, the park’s other active volcano, rises from the eastern flank of Mauna Loa to an elevation of just over 4,000 feet. Haleakala National Park boasts Haleakala Crater, the world’s largest inactive volcanic crater. It measures about 20 miles around and is about 3,000 foot deep. A great thing to do in Hawaii would be fishing. The fishing industry is very small in the state.
Nature’s importance, beauty, and the effects of human presence can be seen throughout the enormous dormant volcano named Haleakala National
Mauna Kea is known to be the best location on Earth to conduct ground-based astronomy and is home to many of the world's greatest observatories. The Mauna Kea Observatories are used for scientific research across the electromagnetic spectrum and comprise the largest facility in the world. There are eleven different countries using telescopes to observe these observatories. This site is important and unique for astronomy for several reasons. The atmosphere above the site is extremely dry and cloud-free which is important in measuring infrared and submillimeter radiation from celestial sources (UHIFA).
By the end of the novel, it becomes evident that Oryx and Crake is entwined with significant social issues that help enrich and broaden the reader's understanding as they view the novel through the lens of the issue. Environmental issues is of great importance to the novel. Atwood’s overall argument about environmental issue present in Oryx and Crake has to do with human manipulation of nature. This is seen through genetic modification of animals to better suit our needs. ChickieNobs which were “Chicken parts” with “No eyes or beak or anything” (Atwood 78) is an example of humans using animals to benefit themselves.
The novel Oryx and Crake opens with the desolate scene. Even when the reader reads the first page of the novel, they get to know about the man named Snowman, who is shown as the last man standing in the world after the great catastrophe has hit the world and wiped out the human race other than Snowman himself. Snowman is shown as the survivor and also as the person who struggles to barely survive by scavenging whatever is left of human civilization: “Then he goes to the other side of the tree . . . and rummages around in the cache he’s improvised from a few slabs of concrete, lining it with wire mesh to keep out the rats and mice.
Saturn is the second largest planet and sixth number planet of our solar system. Saturn is a gas giant made up of hydrogen and helium. It is big enough to hold more than 760 Earths within it, and is second massive planet after Jupiter, roughly 95 times Earth 's mass. However, Saturn has the lowest density among all the planets of solar system .It spins faster than any other planet except Jupiter which help Saturn with its magnetic field which is about 578 times more powerful than Earth 's. Although Saturn has at least 62 moons but its largest moon, Titan, is slightly bigger than Mercury, and is the second-largest moon in the solar system after Jupiter 's moon Ganymede (our moon is fifth largest).Although it is the most interesting planet
