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GEOGRAPHIC CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES MATH 166 Ian Gilley, Kelvin Brandl, Kayla Muehlhauser, Nathan Koehler, Justin Ebnet, Kylie Bentz Our method for determining the center of mass of each state is split up into five steps. The first two, file conversion and sorting, gave a huge amount of raw data, and then condensed it into a workable form. The third step converted latitude and longitude coordinates into kilometers. The fourth step took the trapezoids formed by the previous steps and calculated

has been a good depiction of how Global Warming is in effect. A tropical disease is one that can only accumulate in extreme tropic weather. The existing fact that tropical diseases are occurring in areas the are sub-tropic, as well as far from the equator is enough proof that severe heat over the world is in effect. A recent study by New Zealand doctors, researchers at the Wellington School of Medicine's public health department, said outbreaks of dengue fever in South Pacific islands are directly

air is moving at. Which hemisphere is shown and which way are the winds bending? The Northern Hemisphere is shown. The winds are bending to the right. Do winds blow faster or slower in Florida compared to the equator? Explain why. Winds blow slower in Florida compared to the equator. This is because Florida winds only blow 930 mph, and it is because of the Coriolis effect (slower speed = slower wind). Which way do hurricanes and tornadoes spin in the Northern Hemisphere?

The El Niño story starts on the eastern Pacific Ocean. Peruvian fisherman have alway known the usually very cold and plentiful waters every so often become exceptionally warm, followed by the collapse of fish stocks. These unusual events return every 3-7 years and, and peak around December (Christmas), the fishermen named the phenomenon "El Niño" (Spanish for boy child). For decades, El Niño was considered to be a weather phenomenon only correlating with the countries of western South America. Scientists

found at places with high biodiversity. Biodiversity is variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable. Tropical rainforests are located near the equator as they are have strong biodiversities. 57% of all tropical rainforests are found in Latin America which is a group of countries and dependencies in America. 1/3 of the world's hot and humid rainforests are in Brazil. Other tropical rainforests are

AN ORGANISMS RESPONSE TO THE INCREASES IN EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS The global climate has increased by approximately 0.6°C over the last 100 years (Walther et al. 2002). This increased rate of changes is largely due to humans: the industrial revolution, the advancement of technology and burning of fossil fuels (Timmermann et al. 1999). This human involvement has gradually changed the natural order of the environment and many of its processes. Some of these environmental conditions are not easily predictable

Blue Whales are endangered and their numbers are slowly going up but it doesn’t mean that they are also getting killed. This animal is found North Pacific, Pacific Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. The blue whale is currently endangered, and it weighs approximately 300,000 pounds or 150 tons! The blue whale is carnivorous and it can eat about 8,000 pounds of krill a day. The blue whale’s life span can be up to 80 to 110 years pretty similar to humans. The blue whale can be up to 100 feet long but they

situated at 25.8 degrees north. This divergence is the most likely responsible for Miami Beach’s high summer temperatures as areas in lower latitudes often experience warmer weather in addition to the fact that the beach is located closer to the equator. To compare coastal stations, it is clear that the second conceptual model is reasonably correct when asserting

The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is a permanent low-pressure feature that lies on the meteorological equator. It is characterisied by lots of cloud cover and precipitation (Andrews et al., 2003). The ITCZ plays a significant role in the climate and weather events in the tropics. The clouds created by the ITCZ also provide an important form of albedo in the tropics (Waliser and Gautier, 1993),which has an effect on global climate. Tropical events such as monsoon and cyclones occur in the

I. Introduction Time is always an interesting topic for people during different period. What is time? It is the thing that is measured as seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, etc. From Mayan to modern scientists like Einstein, they all tried to study and find the way to determine an exactly time. Nowadays, if people want to know what time is it, they only need to raise head and have a look at clock on the wall. In addition, to ensure a global society with order, people even found a way to measure