Essays Tagged: "kilometres"
Should Manganese Nodules be Exploited as a Source of Metal? Should we continue exploiting manganese nodules as a source of metal, taking into consideration all the moral aspects.
has a very small growth rate, millimetres per million years. They're usually located a few thousand kilometres off the closest continental shores. In the early 1970's, undersea manganese nodules were ... s such as stainless steel and other corrosion-resistant alloys.Manganese is found under two to five kilometres of water on the sea-bed, sometimes thousands of kilometres of the nearest shoreline. This ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Acid rain facts
can be transformed into sulphuric acid and nitric acid, and air current can send them thousands of kilometres from the source.When the acids fall to the earth in any form it will have large impact on ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Slovak Republic
e in Middle Europe. In Slovakia lives in the neighbourhood of 5,4 million inhabitant on area 49 036 kilometressquare. Slovaks come under Slavic group people.In Slovakia live 85,7% Slovak people. In Sl ... ute;. In Slovakia are 79 districts. The biggest district is the district of Levice withan area 1551 kilometres square and number of inhabitants is around 121 one thousand.Capital city of Slovakia and ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Mount Pinatubo, the volcano itself.
nic eruption of the twentieth century took place on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, only 90 kilometres (55 miles) northwest of the capital city, Manila. Up to 800 people were killed and 100,00 ... e events of the 1991 eruption began back in July 1990, when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred 100 kilometres (62 miles) northeast of the Pinatubo region, later discovered to be a result of the reawa ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
Aboriginal Awareness, a look at the culture of Australian aboriginals.
ich allowed the maintenance of myths, song lines and exchange cycles that extended over hundreds of kilometres.The Dreamtime, or Aboriginal Dreaming, refers to stories about the creation period. It is ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
This is breif history of important events in antarctica.
ut doesn't see the actual continent.1810- Hasslburgh discovers Macquarie Island, which is about 800 kilometres from the Tasmanian coast. A shipwreck is found which probably means there have been earli ... g on the continent at Hughes bay1840- American navel captain Charles Wilkes explores and sails 1500 kilometres along the edge of the ice pack and sees land at various points and thereby establishing t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Ned Kelly and his life.
en his ex-convict father died and his family settled near relatives at Greta, two hundred and forty kilometres northeast of Melbourne.In Ned's time it was wild, rugged country and life was hard. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
Garbage and the effect of it.
ct, 160 million tons of garbage. That is enough to fill a convoy of 10 tons garbage trucks, 232,000 kilometres long. When people drop their trash on the street, toss litter out their car windows, thre ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
The Gobi Desert and Desertification.
a, and in the northern parts of China. It is to the north of the Himalayan Mountains, and over 1000 kilometres from any ocean. As a desert, the Gobi does not have strict boundaries, although the land ... does not have strict boundaries, although the land stretches from 37 North to 46 North (around 9700 kilometres), and 93 East to 118 30" East (approximately 1610 kilometres). This huge land of over 1,3 ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Acid Rain - Causes and effects.
ally and others which are produced by industrial activity. Since it can be carried many hundreds of kilometres by winds, acid pollutants emitted in one country may be deposited as acid rain in other c ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Title is Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Re: the immediate and long term effects of eruption of Vesuvius.
and Herculaneum were built on prehistoric lava flow on the Campania Plains and within two to three kilometres of the base of Mount Vesuvius. The nutrients from the lava made both towns lush in vegeta ... pm. The cloud was shaped 'like a tree' of pumice and ash 'carried up by a violent gust', rose up 20 kilometres into the air landing downwind on the city of Pompeii. For the next hour more than 15cm of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Types of Airships
res long. Today's nonrigid airships average about 60 metres in length. They cruise at about 55 - 65 kilometres per hour at heights reaching approximately 2300 metres.The U.S. Navy's B - class nonrigid ... d ranged from 120 to over 240 metres long. Advanced Zeppelin models could reach speeds of about 130 kilometres per hour. Inside the hulls where several gas compartments called gas cells that held the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Venus!
enus. This sixth largest planet has a diameter of twelve thousand, one hundred, three, decimal, six kilometres (12, 103.6 km). The weight of Venus is four, decimal, eight, six, nine, e, twenty-four ki ... econd planet away from the sun, the planet Venus is one hundred eight million, two hundred thousand kilometres, (108, 200, 000 km). Like the planet Mercury, Venus does not have any moons of its. This ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
International Finance - Spain
The location is in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Africa and at a distance of 1,050 kilometres from the mainland of Europe. The Canary Islands' total area is approximately 7 447 km2. I ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Environmental economics - The Bakun Dam Project in Sarawak
d for industries and cities in mainland Malaysia, through a cable under the South China Sea. At 650 kilometres, this would be by far the longest cable in the world.The Bakun Dam has been a highly cont ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Acid Rain; is the cost to great to bear
s can be transformed into sulphuric acid and nitricacid, and air current can send them thousands of kilometres from the source.When the acids fall to the earth in any form it will have large impact on ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Global Positioning Systems
pace segment are arranged into six circular orbits (4 satellites per orbit) at an altitude of 20100 kilometres , inclined at 60 degrees to each other and at 55 degrees to the Earth's equator (to ensur ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Warragamba Dam
ater supply. Warragamba dam is situated on the Warragamba River. Warragamba Dam is approximately 65 kilometres southwest of Sydney just upstream where the Warragamba River drains into the Nepean River ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Explain how and why the Cuban Missile Crisis almost resulted in WWIII.
the United States of Cuba showed a significant Soviet build-up of strategic missiles. Cuba was 150 kilometres from the American mainland, and this was considered to be a considerable threat on behalf ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
Ned Kelly Story
y were living there. Ned and his family then settled near relatives at Greta, two hundred and forty kilometres northeast of Melbourne. The land was small and the soil wasn't good enough to grow crop a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History