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Term Papers on Science
Global Warming 3 -
Number of words: 2192 - Number of pages: 8.... Earth’s heat balance. If we do not slow down our use of fossil fuels and stop destroying, the forests, the world could become hotter than it has been in the past million years. Average global temperatures have risen 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last century. If carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue to spill into the atmosphere, global temperatures could rise five to 10 degrees by the middle of the next century.
The warning will be the greatest at the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, with the largest temperature rises occurring in .....
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Deforestation
Number of words: 1418 - Number of pages: 6.... my opinions
about deforestation.
There are approximately 3 400 million hectares of forests in the world,
nearly 25% of the world's land area. Close to 58% of the forests are found in
the temperate/boreal regions and 42% in the tropics. For about a millennium,
people have benefited from the forests. Forest products range from simple
fuelwood and building poles to sophisticated natural medicines, and from high-
tech wood based manufactures to paper products. Environmental benefits include
water flow control, soil conservation, and atmospheric influences. Brazil .....
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Chloroflourocarbons
Number of words: 1178 - Number of pages: 5.... industrial solutions and hospital sterilants.
Another use found for them was to blow liquid plastic into various kinds of
foams.
In the 1930's, household insecticides were bulky and hard to use, so CFCs
were created because they could be kept in liquid form and in an only slightly
pressurized can. Thus, in 1947, the spray can was born, selling millions of
cans each year. Insecticides were only the first application for CFC spray cans.
They soon employed a number of products from deodorant to hair spray. In 1954,
188 million cans were sold in the U.S. alo .....
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Chicken Pox
Number of words: 397 - Number of pages: 2.... in a week. More bumps will come about every
three days. Scars will be present if they get infected, badly
scratched or removed. A physician is not usually not needed to make a
diagnosis but after the symptoms appear it is still best to
make sure it is the chicken pox and not something much
worse. The physician can easily make a diagnosis by
checking the basic symptoms. Chicken pox is controlled by keeping the infected
person and anything the infected person has come in
contact with away from any people who have never
become infected. There is not rea .....
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Global Warming…Fact Or Fiction?
Number of words: 2588 - Number of pages: 10.... shed new light on a hot topic with some cold science!
Table of Contents
Page i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abstract
Page ii . . . . .. . . . . . . . . List of Figures/Graphs
Page iii . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acknowledgments
Page iv . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Glossary
Page one . . . . . . . . . . . .Introduction
Page two . . . . . . . . . . . .Experiment
Page three . . . . . . . . . . .Discussion
Page thirteen . . . . . .. . . Conclusion
Page fourteen . . . . . . . . Bibliography
List of Figures
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Prescribed Burning
Number of words: 3330 - Number of pages: 13.... words, the present emerging technology is a lot more parochial (meaning practical) than political - a refreshing thought.
"Honey, your fire has escaped.!"
"There's no guarantee you'll not get a big rip," (see terminology sidebar, page 57) says a Forest Service fire officer on the eastern seaboard.
"When you're messing with fire, there's always a chance one will escape," echoes his counterpart in California's Sierras.
"The fuels are tricky..." adds Ron Meyers, who directs prescribed fires for The Nature Conservancy from his base in Florida.
Such concerns are r .....
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Prions
Number of words: 1715 - Number of pages: 7.... respectively. This is what has given science a great deal of doubt as
this would give the dogma of the beginning of live a radical turn.
Prions have been in research for many years with experiments like the
one done by Stanley B. Pruiser and his team of scientists at the School of
Medicine of the University of California at San Francisco in which a study was
carried out on mice to see if he was able to purify the scrapie agent ,another
prion disease, in mice. But mice as humans took very long to develope the
disease, for example Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheink .....
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Lung Cancer
Number of words: 689 - Number of pages: 3.... (World Book, “”).
In the United States 85 to 90 percent of all cases are related to smoking. Cigarette smoking is the main cause of (Scientific American, “”). Second-hand 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, “Wh .....
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