Step-by-Step Instructions for Instructors INTRODUCTION Welcome back to Unleash Your Wild Side Camp! Did you remember to bring your parka? Today you’re exploring polar habitats! From blizzards to igloos, it’s sure to be a chilling day of activities! The art project has two parts, so the normal order of activities has been shaken up a bit. Before trekking through the snow, lead campers in a short group discussion: What do you know about the Arctic and Antarctica? Where is each located? What kinds
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Sitting outside, early November, in Florida, and all you feel is heat. Why is it so hot out in November? Up north, it is beginning to snow in some places. So why is it so warm down here? Global Warming. The biggest, most well-known fact about global warming, is that it causes major temperature change. Not only is that the most well-known, but it is also the one you see most dominantly. So, we know the effects of global warming on the world can be disastrous, but what about the effects on Florida
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CHAPTER FIVE Return of the Blue Ghoul Early the next afternoon we were standing with our backs pressed against Emma’s porch railings. The beautiful old home skirted in river rocks was situated between two wooded, slow-sloping mountain ranges in a long, narrow valley. This front yard spread out beneath the terrace in the dappled golden light its blades of grass entwined with delicate dandelions which danced in unison in the breeze. Silver and yellow flowers bloomed in a small garden surrounded
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What is Solar Energy? Sunlight is a renewable energy source which can be converted into usable energy by solar panels. There are two main types of solar energy. Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels directly convert solar energy into a usable form of energy using a PV cell containing a semiconductor material. CSP (concentrating solar power) on the other hand, concentrate energy from sunlight to a heat receiver which transforms energy from heat into mechanical energy, and in turn, solar thermal electricity
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*Copernicus theorized that the universe was heliocentric, meaning that the planets revolve around the sun, however there were several faults in his theory. In Galileo’s writing Dialogues he expressed that Copernicans theory was logical and agreed with it. * In the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo inserted his coversations with Sagredo and Simplicio. In this he argues that the sun is the center of our solar system, and not the Earth. * Johannes Kepler sent a letter to Galileo
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The Importance of Funding NASA When you look out into the stars and think of how vast the universe truly is it makes you feel small, so very small and insignificant that it creates an empty feeling that can be difficult to forget. We often at times get lost in our imagination of the absolutely endless possibilities that we simply will never be able to discover or even visualize because of the enormity of space itself. One of the utmost important events for the human species were the space race
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study of the universe’s measurements has intrigued astronomers as early as 250 BC, when the astronomer Aristarchus of Samos was the first to attempt to find the distance from Earth to the Sun by mathematical means (Charbonneau, 2008). He reasoned that since the angular size of the Sun and Moon are the same, that the Sun was 18-20 times larger than the Moon. Although scientists now know that these calculations are incorrect, Aristarchus’s trigonometric method was the first to set the relative ratios of
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What was Astrology’s original purpose? How has it strayed and how authentic is it? Astrology is the study of different movements and placements of celestial objects in the universe and how these objects relate to human occurrences, and other earthly events. Astrology is a study that has been practiced for over thousands of years and is one of the oldest sciences. It was first used to predict seasonal shifts (such as the rain season or the dry season) but eventually adapted into telling certain
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to the planet Earth. It is located in about 500 light-years from Earth and sails through its habitable zone, resulting to potentially watery surface. The planet was put outside the edge of the habitable zone from the fact that in only gets about one-third of the energy from its star compared to Earth. Though researchers find a potentially habitable planet we still need to surmount the problem of getting there or surviving the trip. (Anonymous, 2007) stated that we still don’t have the idea on
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1. Jim defines happiness in Book 1, Section II as “... When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” In Book 1, Section II it mentions in the beginning “I do not remember the arrival at my grandmother’s farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive nearly twenty miles with heavy work- horses. When I awake, it was afternoon. I was lying in a little room, scarcely bigger than the bed that had held him and the window-shade at his head was flapping softly in a warm wind.” Jim described his
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