solar system. Uranus is in front and Pluto is behind it. The planet takes 15 hours, 57 minutes and 59 seconds to fully rotate. That is a little faster than Earth's rotation. Now before you see how many miles large it is I will tell you that it is three point nine times larger than earth. It is 5,299 miles. And its mass is 17 times larger than Earth's mass, Its gravity is 11.15 m/s. So if you weigh 100 pounds on earth you would weigh 110 pounds on Neptune. Its takes
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Global warming is a hotly debated theory that states that there is an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature (Global Warming). The tedious bickering over if global warming is occurring has stopped with science showing that average temperatures have risen. The argument has now shifted to whether humans are contributing to the warming. Also at debate is whether or not global warming is causing Earth’s climate to change. Both sides of the debate attempt to use science and logic to support
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the melting of the polar ice caps, and reduces air quality. Air pollution, just like global warming. Global warming is the change of the earth’s climate and melting of the polar ice caps. Air pollution is a threat to human’s health and the ecosystem as a whole. Deforestation, results in climate changing and decreasing in condition. It’s the eradication of the earth’s forests and trees on a massive scale; killing thousands of species with them. Global warming, deforestation, and air pollution are all
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Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. This part of the universe is called the solar system, and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun. The solar system is the earth’s neighborhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earth’s neighbors. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago, perhaps when a nearby star exploded and caused a
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global warming. These greenhouse gases reabsorb heat reflected from the Earth's surface, thus trapping the heat in our atmosphere. This natural process is essential for life on Earth because it plays an important role in regulating the Earth's temperature. However, over the last several hundred years, humans have been artificially increasing the concentration of these gases, mainly carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth's atmosphere. These gases build up and prevent additional thermal radiation from
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gravitational pull of the fierce, stormy ball of gas holds earth orbit, and its emissions power the Earth-atmosphere systems on which our lives depend. As the source of almost all the energy in our world, it holds the key to many of our questions about Earth and sky. Everybody is wondering about the environmental changes that take place throughout the year and from place to place over Earth’s surface. In the late years, people wondered why it got much warmer during summer than in winter and why some
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Slide 3 Mercury’s Important Facts Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, therefore, its daytime temperatures can reach about 800°F, and drop down to -280°F at night (Mercury," 2013). This drop occurs because of the lack of much of an atmosphere
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It is common in today’s society for young females to want to attain golden bronze skin. The quickest way to get a tan and not have to lay in the heat of the sun for hours is to lay in a tanning bed. As this trend continues to rise, medical researchers are beginning to pay close attention to the health effects of indoor tanning. Many recent medical studies and cases, researchers have linked the use of tanning beds to many health problems. Even with all of the negative effects that the use of indoor
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of our planet, without them human being cannot breath. Our land is drying and it will get even drier if we continue ignored this situation. What is Global Warming? Global Warming is the rising of temperatures in Earth’s atmosphere. However, to understand global Warming I think we need to start understanding a natural process called Greenhouse effect. As we, all know when
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Outline Samantha Hernandez SCI207: Dependence of Man on the Environment Instructor: Alyssa Kunz April 24, 2012 Global Warming 1 Global Warming 2 Is global warming skepticism just smoke and mirrors? There are several different views on the issues of global warming. Some people think global warming might be just a myth while others think that global warming is happening and humans are the cause of it. One side believes that humans cause global warming, yet the other side thinks
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