Essays Tagged: "Bering Sea"

Commercial fishing

tinental shelves of Iceland and Norway, and the Barents Sea; in the North Pacific, specifically the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and the coastal areas around Japan; and off the coasts of China and ... t Atlantic collapsed in the early 1990s for the same reason.The profitable king crab fishery in the Bering Sea broke down in the 1980s, and much of the crab fleet was changed to trawlers, which yielde ...

(10 pages) 158 1 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

History of the Yellowknives native americans

to Alaska. The Sub-arctic culture area stretches from the Labrador Sea to within a few miles of the Bering Sea, and encompasses six Canadian Provinces, two Territories, as well as much of Alaska. The ...

(5 pages) 42 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

History of Arctic Art

d] occurred in sufficient quantity, that is, on the coast of Alaska or in eastern Siberia, north of Bering Sea. There, all the conditions requisite for the formation of this culture were to be found, ... Island3 the previous year, carried out excavations at Cape Prince of Wales and on Diomede Island in Bering Strait and found the remains of an ancient Eskimo culture that had formerly existed there. Th ...

(6 pages) 54 0 4.5 Nov/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Bering Strait Theory

The Bering Strait Theory is as follows. It is thought the first people in the Americas came from the Art ... le in the Americas came from the Artic region of Siberia across a land bridge that is now under the Bering Sea. This occurred during the Ice Age, between 12,000 and 60,000 years ago. As water became l ... s ago. As water became locked up in the polar ice caps, sea levels dropped as much as 300 feet. The Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska is no more than 180 feet deep and would have been dry land at ...

(1 pages) 2937 0 1.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Native Americans

,000 B.C., much of the world's water was contained in vast continental ice sheets. As a result, the Bering Sea was hundreds of meters below its current level, and a land bridge, known as Beringia, eme ... t level, and a land bridge, known as Beringia, emerged between Asia and North America. At its peak, Beringia is thought to have been some 1,500 kilometers wide. A moist and treeless tundra, it was cov ...

(64 pages) 317 0 4.7 Dec/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Who Discovered America?

st and oldest inhabitants of America. 35,000 years ago a group of nomadic Asian hunters crossed the Bering Sea on an exposed land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska chasing migrating herds of game. ...

(3 pages) 28 3 4.0 May/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Octopi and Squid

erences between squids and octopi. These remarkable animals are also known as the chameleons of the sea. Although they both live in the salty waters of the ocean and both are related to mollusks or sn ... an animal is called the habitat. Most of the time, octopi are found in caves or holes in the of the sea floor while squid are out in the open sea. According to their given habitats, octopi feed themse ...

(2 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Effect of pH Buffer on Yeast Reaction

(8 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology