.... swirls in over the sea surface, it soaks up more and more water vapour. At the storm center, this new supply of water vapor gets pulled into the thunderhead updrafts, releasing still more energy as the water vapor condenses. This makes the updrafts rise faster, pulling in even larger amounts of air and water vapor from the storm's edges. And as the updrafts speed up, air swirls faster and faster around the storm center. The storm clouds, moving with the swirling air, form a coil. In a few days the hurricane will have grown greatly in size and power. The swirling shape of the winds of the hurricane is shaped like a dough-nu .....

.... hot enough to melt tin. On the side facing away from the Sun, or the night side, the temperature drops to -183 degrees Celsius. Scientists have detected a magnetic field surrounding Mercury, though it is not as strong as the field around the Earth. Scientists theorize that Mercury's field is due to an iron-bearing core or possibly to the solar winds. Mercury's atmosphere is very thin and is composed of helium and sodium. The surface of Mercury has been shaped by three processes: impact cratering where large objects struck the surface resulting in crater formation, volcanism where lava flooded the surface, and tectonic ac .....

.... remains a revered rite of passage in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. According to the World Health Organization, circumcision dates back almost 4,000 years. No one knows exactly how the practice began, though scholars speculate its origins lay somewhere along the Nile Valley. The reasons for performing this procedure are almost as numerous as it's consequences. The procedure can simply be a small but painful nick across the hood of the clitoris, but is typically more severe. The most severe type of circumcision is called infibulation. The clitoris, inner labia and most of the soft flesh of the labia are scrap .....

.... repeated folded so that it takes up less space. There are two types of folding, the first of which is beta-pleated sheets, where the primary structure would resemble continuous spikes forming a horizontal strip. The second type of folding is an alpha helix, which goes vertically forming a wavy line. An alpha helix is in the same shape of one strand of DNA. These new formations are held together by hydrogen bonds. The third level is the tertiary structure. The tertiary structure of a protein is a contorted secondary structure being twisted and folded all out of shape to form a 3-d complex. The type of bonding that holds thes .....

.... 6 month periods of light and dark. This is also the reason why the Tundra receives cold weather; at it's degree of latitude the suns rays end up hitting the region obliquely, thus causing less solar heat. Here are the temperatures of the Tundra in general: Average January temperature: -32.1 degrees Celsius Average July temperature: +4.1 degrees Celsius Temperature range: 36.2 degrees Celsius Average annual temperature: -17 degrees Celsius Lowest temperature recorded: -52.5 degrees Celsius Highest temperature recorded: +18.3 degrees Celsius After seeing these temperatures you can see the reason why barely anyone lives .....

.... smoke, inhaled by non-smokers, increases a person’s chance of acquiring (Beau Halton). Men who smoke increase their chance of dying from about 23 times and women increase their chances 13 times (“ Awareness Campaign,” 3/23/99). However, may also be caused by long term exposure to radon, a naturally present radioactive gas (SIRS, “What is Cancer?”). The residue of burned petroleum and coal can contribute to (Scientific American, “”). The development of seems to be also affected by genes. The gene histidine triad blocks the formation of tumors, so a defective gene could make o .....

.... mode captures data in three bands in the following spectral ranges: .50-.59, .61-.68 and .79-.89 micrometers. The three bands are co-registered and have a ground resolution of 20m. The panchromatic mode images data in the spectral range .51-.73 micrometers at a sampling interval of 10m. LITERATURE REVIEW Landsats 1 through 3 circled the Earth every 103 minutes, completing 14 orbits a day. Eighteen days and 251 overlapping orbits were needed to provide almost complete coverage of the Earth’s surface. They carried return beam vidicon (RBV) cameras and the MSS sensor. The MSS sensor scanned the Earth’s surface from west to .....

.... in any good romance movie, the onlooker with bottled emotions waits until the end to release everything, dramatically and emotionally releasing all her pressurized tensions. Sure, Hollywood is not the best place to get your life morals, but a lesson really can be learned here, and the same lesson can be applied to the big question at hand. “Why does he act so gay?” By now you may be realizing where I am going with this. If you can put two and two together to make four, you can put the above concept together with the question to get the answer. With the wavering inconsistencies of genetics comes different breaking points, .....

.... is not a plausible scenario. This would only account for the dinosaurs, but not all the other creatures of that time. Paleontologists needed to come up with a more plausible and devastating theory that would include the other creatures that died out 65 million years ago. There have been several major theories that have come about that can all be substantiated. Any one of these events, theorized by paleontologists, could have brought an end to the dinosaurs and all the other species that died with them. Since there are many theories about this I will not write about them all. I have chosen the theory about death by Cosmic C .....

.... that can be observed in the Shenandoah. As they rifted apart, they created a growing ocean called the proto-Atlantic or Iapetus after the father of Atlas, for whom the Atlantic Ocean is named. Towards the end of the Precambrian, the tensional forces changed to compression and subduction began. Volcanic islands grew as a result of andesitic volcanism associated with the subduction. With continued subduction and convergence, volcanic islands collided with North America and those rocks were thrust up on the continental margin. Deformation, metamorphism and magmatism accompanied this collision and gave rise to the Taconic Orogeny .....