Essays Tagged: "Northern Hemisphere"

Location of Brazil

quator running through north Brazil, a small portion of Brazil, a small portion of Brazil is in the northern hemisphere. Brazil is bordered by a number of South American countries. Brazil borders Urug ...

(3 pages) 120 2 2.6 May/1995

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Problems of Modernization in Developing Nations

oping world. It shows that the industrial nations, The United States and Europe, are located in the northern hemisphere. On the other hand most of the developing world, Central and South America and A ...

(2 pages) 83 0 3.0 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Aurora Borealis

ated by nature that appear in the night sky. "Aurora Borealis", the Latin name of the aurora of the northern hemisphere, means the red dawn of the north. The name comes from the famous Italian scienti ... w, which I will cover later in the presentation. The Vikings in the year 700-1000 called it simply "northern lights," and in early England they called it "The Merry Dancers" referring to the way the a ...

(4 pages) 112 2 2.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Atmospheric Sciences

Taiga

The taiga is largest biome. It covers 11% of the Northern Hemisphere area and it covers 27 percent of world's total forest. It is stretches across mu ...

(3 pages) 49 0 4.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Cuba and United states.

Cuba and The United StatesCuba and the United States are two countries in the Northern Hemisphere that are complete opposites. One country as you can guess represents freedom and ...

(2 pages) 74 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Global Warming.

al warming will produce more violent storms and larger death tolls. Some areas, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, will dry out and a greater occurrence of lightning strikes will set massive for ...

(2 pages) 114 5 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The Andromeda Galaxy.

est galactic neighbor. The Andromeda Galaxy is also the only galaxy visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere. At 2.9 million light-years from Earth, Andromeda is also the farthest object th ...

(2 pages) 51 1 4.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Constellations: Ursa Major

onstellation and it appears in every reference known. Ursa Major, the Great Bear, is visible in the Northern Hemisphere all year long.Calisto was changed to a bear because of Zeus's jealousy and trans ... rs. Another famous asterism is the Little Dipper in the constellation Ursa Minor.If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you can use the Big Dipper to find all sorts of important stars:If you draw an ...

(3 pages) 55 2 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

The causes of poverty and inequality

al north' refers to highly industrialised and wealthy states, most of them which are located in the northern hemisphere, Australia and New Zealand are exceptional. The 'global south' refers to poor st ...

(7 pages) 363 1 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Why Scotland u ask?

d history essay the country I have chosen is Scotland. Scotland is located in Western Europe in the Northern Hemisphere. It is located just above England, and in fact they share a border.There are sev ...

(2 pages) 47 2 2.6 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

This is an essay on Goler Wash and many areas nearby

and stars at night that you can almost reach out and touch. The hottest recorded temperature in the Northern hemisphere occurred here near Badwater at 134 degrees F in 1913, ironically the same year t ... e Racetrack. The flat is shaped like an oval racetrack; the eerie, black outcropping of rock at its northern end is known as The Grandstand - park and walk out on the Playa to climb the granite island ...

(22 pages) 82 0 4.7 May/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Bald eagle biome outline

rts, and grassesE.Birds: grouselike birdsII.Climate-Extremely cold climateA.Taiga is located in the northern hemisphere, encircling the north pole and extending south to the coniferous forests of the ...

(1 pages) 31 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Nuclear Weapons

that rapid, substantialtemperature and rainfall decreases would occur over wide areas of themiddle Northern Hemisphere. Smaller temperature decreases might occur inlow latitudes but more importantly ... nocent people died.A large-scale nuclear war would lessen food production over largeexpanses in the Northern Hemisphere, this could occur through acuteclimatic conditions which chilling or freezing te ...

(3 pages) 39 0 2.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

the causes of poverty and inequality

al north' refers to highly industrialised and wealthy states, most of them which are located in the northern hemisphere, Australia and New Zealand are exceptional. The 'global south' refers to poor st ...

(8 pages) 445 0 3.2 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Tornados, cyclones and hurricanes

aterspouts that occur most frequently in tropic waters. Most tornadoes spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern, but occasional tornados reverses this behavior.Th ... ogical terminology, an area of low atmospheric pressure surrounded by a wind system blowing, in the northern hemisphere, in a counterclockwise direction. A corresponding high-pressure area with clockw ...

(4 pages) 44 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Japan and its problems

Japan is situated next to China in the northern hemisphere. It has a population of 127 million-That's 336 people per square kilometre! Its ...

(2 pages) 24 0 4.0 May/2006

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Hurricane Katrina

's rotation causes the spinning of the storm we call a "cyclonic rotation", counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere while clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Hurricane is a natural disaster that ...

(3 pages) 81 1 3.3 Jun/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Artic Tundra Biome (antartica)

The Artic and Alpine Tundra Biomes Artic Tundra The artic tundra, in the northern hemisphere is the coldest biome in the world. Tunturia means treeless plains; hence what we ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Global Warming

nd the carbon levels, mainly in the atmosphere and ocean water, have risen all over the planet. The Northern Hemisphere has become a larger sink for carbon because this is where most cars are driven a ...

(10 pages) 98 0 5.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Cyclones

oisture and starts producing thunderclouds. Spinning in a clockwise direction (anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere), the cyclone gradually picks up speed. Driven by the fast winds, the Cyclone ca ... only 9 returned. 25 out of the 66 people that died, lost their lives at sea. Nearly everyone in the Northern Territorian capital was affected in some way by Cyclone Tracy. Although you can't ch ...

(2 pages) 1409 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays