Gulfs of the Pacific Ocean

peninsulas containing high mountains and deep valleys that is under constant threat from natural disasters. From earthquakes, tsunami, to volcano eruptions, this region has seen it all, including cyclones, floods, landslides, and other hazards. The Pacific Rim is part of the Ring of Fire, in 2004 a tsunami will 300,000 people, 1883 the Krakatau volcano erupted killing 30,000, and in 1815 the Tambora volcano erupted affecting the climate for 20 years. There is a widespread of casualities in this diverse

Chapter 9 Review Questions Explain why the Sun's influence on Earth's tides is only 46% that of the Moon's, even though the Sun is so much more massive than the Moon. although the sun is much larger than the moon and has much more gravitational power, the distance between the earth and the moon is extremely further than the distance between the earth and moon. so much that it greatly dampens the effect of the suns gravity. Why is a lunar day 24 hours and 50 minutes long, while a solar

neutrality. During this period America supplied the Soviet Union, China and Britain with war materials on the basis of the Lend-Lease Act, which was signed in spring 1941. It is most important that America aimed at limiting Japanese aggression in Asia-Pacific and introduced also economic sanctions on Japan, which started from the passing of the Export Control Act in 1940. Such policy resulted in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the involvement of America into World War II, which was a serious

odorless, colorless, non-toxic, non-corrosive and non-flammable form of methane. “The first liquefied natural gas plant was built in West Virginia in 1912” (Dominion). The LNG was first produced in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939. In the 1950s and 1960s, the ocean-going trade in international LNG began. In 1969, the first LNG terminal and commercial liquefaction facility in the world in the United States began operations in Kenai, Alaska. The Kenai Peninsula LNG plant, operated by ConocoPhillips, is one of the

Nadia Khan 1. What are phytoplankton? In which ocean zone will you expect to find them? Why are they important? (10 points) Plankton are microscopic organisms that get their name for the fact that they passively float in the waters that they habitat. Plankton means “drifter in Greek.” Now phytoplankton are a special type of plankton that are very small, plant-like organisms as they consist of eukaryote such as algae and Protista as well as prokaryote such as cyanobacteria. Diatoms, with their hard

southeast. At La Junta the two ranges form the Sierra Madre del Sur, a maze of volcanic mountains containing the highest peaks in Mexico. The Sierra Madre Del Sur leads into the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which lies between the Bay of Campeche and the Gulf of Tecuantepec. The prominent topographical feature of the

managing change in british petroleum CONTENTS: * A view of British Petroleum * A brief description of BP incident in the Gulf of Mexico. * Critical Evaluation of Potential changes that may take place in BP * Evaluation the importance of change and Potential problems when implementing change * Evaluation the effectiveness of BP strategy for managing change within the organisation * Conclusion * A view of British Petroleum British Petroleum also

affected by future ocean change, particularly changes associated with glacial discharge and ocean acidification. Kachemak Bay, Alaska, is the ideal high-latitude model system to conduct this research because of its 1) wealth of existing data, 2) existing infrastructure (the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory), 3) high productivity and biological diversity, 4) susceptibility to climate change (in particular, glacial melt and increasing acidification), 5) link to the open ocean environment of the Gulf of Alaska, and

protect its natural resources. Coming to the Asia-Pacific region, the strategical trends there have been a chequered picture of intense competitive rivalries with strands of cooperative maritime partnership and are a dichotomous outcome of the evolving balance of power in the region featuring rise of china and emergence of japan as normal powers. The public authorities with sectoral arrangements and business conducts have constrained efforts at ocean and have been effective in providing integrated

last century, many environmental problems have been caused by the production and transportation of fossil fuels. Such problems include oil spills that kill animals, pollute the ocean, and make economies crash. An example of this would be the Deepwater Horizon spill in Alaska in the early 90’s and most recently the Gulf spill. Other problems on land have caused massive environmental disasters. Such disasters include large-scale erosion from strip mining and deforestation by mining organizations