Essays Tagged: "Evaporation"
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up unequally. This causes wind which can be converted into electricity by means of wind turbines.By evaporation we get precipitation which is carried downstream by rivers. The current of this water ca ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
"Power of oil"
natural gas while drilling for the salt water from which salt would eventually be obtained through evaporation. French and British explorers found oil in what later became the United States; but they ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
Plant adaptation in extreme conditions.
guard cells which protect where the water is stored in the stomata. They cover the stomata to stop evaporation. An example of a plant which uses these adaptations is Saguaro Cactus which cans store t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology
Impact of Human overpopulation on Social systems and the environment.
an be compared year by year, has revealed with shocking clarity the shrinkage of ice fields and the evaporation of large bodies of water. "We are seeing things that you would not have seen 10 or even ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
Heat generation and loss in the human body, mechanisms of control and extreme heat and cold responses.
body gains and loses heat through the external environment by radiation, conduction, convection and evaporation of water. These are all physical mechanisms known to the human body. (Vander, Sherman &a ... ich is why we get colder much quicker in windy conditions and why fans cool us down. (Watson 1998). Evaporation is the conversion of water from a liquid to a gaseous form. Heat is lost when water evap ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Essay about the effects of Global Warmin on Canadian Economy and what are the causes for the increase in Global Warming the past few years.
ne of Lake St. Clair in southwestern Ontario will retreat by as much as six km because of increased evaporation and drought.*The water level in the St. Lawrence Seaway system will drop by as much as o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The Water Cycle
or).Water on earth is always changing.How do these changes happen?It is made up of a few main parts:evaporation(and transpiration),condensation andprecipitation. Evaporation is when the sunheats up wa ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
Desiccation of the Aral Sea
balance between river and ground-water inflow and precipitation on its surface on the one hand and evaporation from the sea on the other.The Aral depression has repeatedly been flooded and desiccated ... o occur for decades. The primary determinant of level change, the difference between inflow and net evaporation, is currently large and negative. It will only decrease slowly as the sea shrinks to a m ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Cycling of Chemical Elements In The Ecosystem
F CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN THE ECOSYSTEMIn the water cycle, energy is supplied by the sun, which drives evaporation either from ocean surfaces or from treetops. Wind moves the clouds to different places, ... the ocean will add to the mineral content of the water, but water cannot leave the oceans except by evaporation, and evaporation leaves the minerals behind. Organisms play an important role in the wat ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The Atom
water and air could. If the water and air were composed of discrete particles, Dalton thought that evaporation might be viewed as a mixing of water particles with air particles. He performed a series ...
Subjects: Science Essays
The North Sea and its Problems
t creates weather and helps to control balance of gasses in the air. The sea produces water through evaporation and rain. This water is essential for life on land, but the sea is vulnerable to upset a ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Water Cycle
rs and lakes, sometimes crashing over waterfalls. Eventually the water flows into the ocean. During evaporation, the water turns from liquid into gas, and moves from oceans and lakes into the atmosphe ... spoon, they get larger and finally drop back into the liquid. In conclusion, what I observed is the evaporation of water from the hot liquid; water condensation on the surface of the spoon, and water ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
The Structure of Plants as Relates to Transpiration
ed water to survive. However, plants lose huge amounts of water through transpiration, which is the evaporation of water from the aerial surfaces of a plant. In order to understand this process, one m ... perature, light intensity, air current, and humidity. Higher temperatures result in faster rates of evaporation, and thus a greater rate of transpiration. Light causes photosynthesis to speed up. As p ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology
Bubbles' Journey through the Water Cycle
for the first time in my life, I actually got to fly in the form of ephemeral gas which is known as evaporation!I felt like an angel in the thick, fluffy clouds as I bolstered myself towards the proce ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Summary of global warming, the energy crisis, and a new energy policy for the President. (needs better conclusion, otherwise very informative paper)
sed temperatures are also very likely to be accompanied with "more extreme precipitation and faster evaporation of water". Today we see evidence of global warming via shrinkage of glaciers, thawing of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The Little Ice Age
earth's orbit and in the tilt and orientation of its spin axis have constantly changed patterns of evaporation and rainfall and the intensity of the passing seasons over the past 730,000 years. As a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Precipitation Reactions
MATION: Precipitation is the formation of a solid in a solution during a chemical reaction, such as evaporation. A substance that causes precipitation when it is added to a solution is called a precip ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Cooling of the Human Body with Respect to Vaporization of Sweat
speed up the movement of the water molecules so that they can escape into the air, or evaporate. As evaporation occurs, the remaining liquid cools because heat has been removed from it to supply the h ... s a lot of heat to convert from liquid to gas, a lot of heat can be exported out of the body by the evaporation of sweat, therefore cooling the body. This efficiently uses the body's heat as an effect ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
A Thorough Description of Chromatography
IntroductionWe all know about the processes of Decantation, Evaporation, Sublimation, Extraction etc. All of these chemical processes are considered the basic t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Osmosis
egg in beaker and pour vinegar next.3.Cover beaker with handiwrap and use a rubber band to prevent evaporation. Lets sit for two days.4. After two days observe what happened and write it down in the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology