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jeopardy/1157_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Round: THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, BROADWAY GEOGRAPHY, FOOD FACTS, WOMEN AUTHORS, ..... DUST TO DUST | This geographic area is estimated to generate more than 60% of the Earth's airborne dust | the Sahara. right: Ann.
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Dust storm - Wikipedia  A dust storm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. ... In desert areas, dust and sand storms are most commonly caused by either ... according to Andrew Goudie, a professor of geography at Oxford University. ... Earth, sometimes encircling the planet, with wind speeds as high as 60 miles...
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Section II-Exposure Pathways, 3: What We Breathe | Earth Materials ...  This report focuses on airborne natural materials derived from earth ... Natural contaminants, such as wind-blown dust from arid areas, can carry .... A dry fog was observed for more than five months after the eruption. ... FIGURE 3.2 Model outputs showing the geographic distribution of aerosols from ..... Page 60 Share Cite.
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Answering That Age-old Lament: Where Does All This Dust Come ...  Oct 29, 2009 ... They estimated that nearly 60 percent of the arsenic in floor dust could come ... Migration of Contaminated Soil and Airborne Particulates to Indoor Dust. ... 10, 2015  Dust begets life, and Earth's atmosphere 300 million years ago ... dust generated during processing may explode more easily than dust from...
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SDI Glossary  aerosol: Particulate material, other than water or ice, in the atmosphere ranging in size ... Airborne particulates include windblown dust, emissions from industrial ... biosphere: The portion of Earth and its atmosphere that can support life. ..... an area of sea ice to the total area of sea surface within some large geographic area.
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Wit's End: The Human Volcano  Mar 3, 2012 ... The most important aspect to me of course is that the decrease in annual crop ... Ground level ozone turns their leaves brown and spotty, and stunts their growth. ... A lot of warming in the tropics can actually damage productivity. ..... and dust from human activities would cause a dangerous global cooling.
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AlchemistClub - Rain Forest Ecosystem  -Rain forests only cover around 2% percent the total surface area of Earth, but ... -You can find rain forests in many countries, not just in South America. ... They contain more than 50 percent of all the plants and animal species on .... Acre's broken each year; If Rain Forest deforestation continues at this rate ..... acres ever min.
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The World's Oceans - GDRC  The five major oceans that make up this planet, including the newest 'Southern ... The Atlantic covers an area of 82 million square kilometers (32 million square miles). ... (more than 64 million square miles)about one-third of the earth's surface. ... This ring of water lies between 60 degrees south latitude and the coast of...
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Human Footprint | National Geographic Channel  Here are the numbers: Americans generated 251 million tons of trash in 2006, the most recent year for which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has data. Our per capita trash disposal rate was 4.6 pounds per person, per day. ... of all methane; landfill and wastewater treatment gases made up 2.3 percent of U.S....
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Sep. 29th 2004 -Toutatis Asteroid Coming Too Close? - Rense  Sep 29, 2004 ... The September 29th. fly-pass will come within four lunar distances of the Earth. ... Europe and would raise enough dust into the atmosphere to change the climate ... Toutatis will be so bright that skywatchers will be able to easily see it through binoculars. ... The earth and Toutatis are on top of one another.
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Deserts of the World | The 7 Continents  Deserts cover about one-third of the Earth's land surface area. ... Mojave, Tanami, Karakum ... There are 10 countries in Africa that have some part of their nation in the Sahara desert. ... square km) across the southern United States (30%) and Northern Mexico (70%). .... Its name means black sand in Turkic languages.
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Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions  The high concentration of people in coastal regions has produced many ... as did 50 percent of all mangroves, and nearly 60 percent of the world's coral reefs are .... and organic matter are drained into coastal waters.26 These toxins can kill or ... marine food chain reduces vital supplies of protein for about 1 billion people,...
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Surface Area of the Earth - ChartsBin.com  Total surface area of earth: 510072000 sq km Total water surface area: ... types: 20% covered by snow land, 20% mountains, 20% dry land, 30% good land that...
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Plate Tectonics and Earth History - UWGB Home  Oct 14, 2003 ... Chances are good that a large part of the continental crust will collect in ... This has happened twice that we know of, and perhaps more times in the distant geologic past. ... Asia, as well as portions of Iran and Tibet, have not quite attached. ... Around 130-100 million years ago, Gondwanaland breaks apart.
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Half the World's Population Lives in Just 1% of the Land [Map ...  Jan 4, 2016 ... Nearly half (46%) of the world's population lives within just the area shown in this ... dense areas are spread out remarkably evenly across the continent. .... Sub-Saharan Africa has a greater carrying capacity than what was...
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Untitled Document  Forest acreage throughout the world has declined by 15 percent over the last decade. ... Commercial logging has been so extensive in the African countries of Ghana ... Tropical forests cover only 6 percent of the Earth's land surface (down from ... forests, by serving as the lungs of the world, confer benefits around the globe.
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Download Report (PDF) - Environment California  Apr 2, 2013 ... Weather-Related Disasters Affect Nearly Every American . . . . . . . . . . . .28 ..... 9.3 million acres of land in the United States an area larger than Con- ... occur four to seven times per decade by .... North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia80 ... 1,900 square miles of coastal wetlands in.
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The Millennium Project: Emerging Environmental Security Issues  Further, a call for the G20 to stop promoting biofuel  policies that many believed ..... Observers say that the ratio of one in ten ships off the Somali coast already carrying ... Japan's nuclear and environmental disasters might further delay efforts to ...... low 14.64 million square kilometers (5.65 million square miles) on March 7,...
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Jeopary Questions page 1612 - TREES - TriviaBistro.com  SHEEPISH COUNTRIES: Producing about 30% of the world's wool, this country has 7.7 jumbucks per person  DANCE: After watching this movie dancer,...
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Geobulletin: News from the Geoblogosphere [2016-10-14 ]  Feb 5, 2011 ... The Earth Institute is pleased to welcome the the Aditya Birla Group and the EDF Group into the Corporate Circle, ... Geology Test -One estimate says there are about 326 million cubic miles of this compound in, on & above the...
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Rainforest Facts - Wealth of the Rainforest  Dec 21, 2012 ... Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they ... More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest. ... less than 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists. .... The life force of the Amazon rainforest is the mighty Amazon River.