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Papers on Science and Nature
Silverfish
Number of words: 308 | Number of pages: 2.... take up
to two months to hatch. The young nymphs are very much like the adults except
for size. Several years are required before they are sexually mature, and they
must mate after each molt if viable eggs are to be produced. Populations do not
build up rapidly because of their slow development rate and the small number of
eggs laid.
ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE: Silverfish sometimes feed on book binding and the paste
that holds on wall paper causing damage to many houses.
IS IT A SOCIAL INSECT? Yes I think that the Silverfish is social because it
lives in colonies.
3 INTERESTING FACTS: Some can live up to one year with out food, so .....
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Effects Of Excessive Pesticide
Number of words: 5605 | Number of pages: 21.... an always shrinking base of agricultural land, and the substantial damage that can be inflicted by pests (e.g. insects, diseases, weeds, rodents, birds) on crops is the margin between a good harvest and a bad one. Pests can reduce the quality of a harvest as well as its quantity. Since the quality of food is increasingly important to consumers, a pest could reduce the value of a crop or make it unsaleable. But it is important to keep in mind that pests are not the only cause of yield
reduction and of lower quality produce: factors such as soil fertility and availability of water may have a greater influence in a particular situati .....
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Alternativly Powered Cars
Number of words: 412 | Number of pages: 2.... speeds where the added horsepower is needed. Usually the speed at which the gasoline engine starts is in the 30 mile per hour range. Even as the gasoline engine runs the electric motor continues to provide power for the vehicle. This vehicle combination in my opinion is beneficial economically and environmentally.
There are many benefits for the hybrid vehicle. The price of hybrid cars present day is near seventeen thousand dollars. Some schools have their own homemade hybrid vehicles. Their vehicles usually average about 40 mpg. In the automotive industry the manufactured combination of the electric and gasoline engines these .....
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Simple Machines
Number of words: 586 | Number of pages: 3.... goods, for transportation, ect.
In the W=F*d equation the trade of between force and distance is as you
use a machine the force goes down and distance goes up. If there was no friction
they would be equal and trade.
There are six simple machines. They are a lever, pulleys, inclined plain,
wheel and axle, screw, and wedge. The lever is used very often an example of a
lever is a broom. Your hand is the fulcrum and when you sweep it is a lever. A
lever consist of a fulcrum, effort, and resistance. A pulley is used to lift or
pull objects with a advantage. To get a advantage it matters how many lines are
going to t .....
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Hurricane Flloyd
Number of words: 1093 | Number of pages: 4.... of 112 mph or more after 72 hours.
Tropical Storm Floyd Continues to Intensify
Washington, September 9, 1999 -- The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Tropical Storm Floyd was located about 450 miles east of the Leeward Islands. The strong tropical storm and had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph. NHC Forecasters expected the system to reach minimal hurricane strength within the next 24 hours and thought it will be a strong Category II hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 109 mph within 72 hours. Tropical storm force winds extended outward up to 115 miles from the center of the storm. F .....
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David Suzuki's A Planet For The Taking
Number of words: 944 | Number of pages: 4.... are doing, and will continue to do if we do not
stop these actions.
Although his approach for explaining his beliefs changes, Suzuki's tone
of great concern remains consistent throughout the essay. After his views are
presented, Suzuki begins to tell us what we have done to our country and how we
are destroying it. Present day Canadians are compared to native Canadians which
successfully serves its purpose in illustrating how, for centuries, people lived
off the natural resources in Canada. With the development of science and
technology, we have developed better ways of mass harvesting resources but these
methods are taking .....
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Antibiotic Resistance 2
Number of words: 3982 | Number of pages: 15.... passing decade, bacteria that defy not only single but multiple antibiotics -- and therefore are extremely difficult to control -- have become increasingly common.
What is more, strains of at least three bacterial species capable of causing life-threatening illnesses (Enterococcus faecalis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) already evade every antibiotic in the clinician's stockpile of more than 100 drugs. In part because of the rise in resistance to antibiotics, the death rates for some communicable diseases (such as tuberculosis) have started to rise again, after having declined in the industrial nations. .....
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Effects Of Marijuana
Number of words: 1053 | Number of pages: 4.... ways, through a pipe, a joint, blunt. A joint is a
rolled piece of paper that is twisted at the ends. A blunt is
normally an emptied cigar wrapper filled with marijuana. In a
blunt you can fit much more marijuana. Though a blunt isn't
always purely marijuana, it can be mixed with other drugs such as
angel dust.
The results are varied when someone smokes marijuana.
Different people will get different results, and certain types of
cannabis can cause different effects. The amount of THC
(marijuana's main active chemical) may also change the result.
If alcohol, or other drug use is occurring while smoking
marijuana .....
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Hawks
Number of words: 1311 | Number of pages: 5.... of the
mountains while others live in the brushy open country and badlands
of Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and South-central
California. Also in North and Central America for a more wide
variety of hawks. Its biome would be in the Deciduous area as well as
the Grassland and parts of the desert.
Tropic Level/Niche
The hawk is at the top of the ecological food chain. It is the top
consumer of the food chain. Nothing eats it because it is at the highest
level. The hawk eats almost everything and anything that is living.
From starlings and sparrows and pigeons and quail to reptiles and
amphibians. Even ground squirre .....
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The Problem Of Global Warming
Number of words: 457 | Number of pages: 2.... tons of carbon that does
not all get treated for, and is in the top five for highest amounts of carbon
produced per year. This is another factor that somehow has to be dealt with.
All of these causes of global warming have been know by scientists, it's
the effects we are seeing in today's climate now they had no idea of. Arctic
glaciers are melting and causing the ocean's water level to rise. It has be
proven that if the water level were to rise anymore then we won't be able to see
the state of Louisiana anymore or any coastal areas anywhere. Louisiana is
already having there wetlands filled by the floods. The polar bear .....
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