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    Pollution is a very vast issue. It is a problem that nations across the world struggle with. The power of pollution is caused by technology, culture, and location. Pollution is harmful to us and wildlife. It is in the air we breath, the water we drink and even the soil we use for our crops. Pollution causes environmental degradation, bad human health, and Global Warming. The most common air pollution is smog and it is caused by carbon dioxide, also known as a greenhouse gas. This is a growing problem

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    it melts, it runs down into the lower catchment and provides a water source that would not exist otherwise (because the lower catchment does not receive much rain). Additionally, most of the farming occurs on the lower catchment, thus relying on the irrigation from the melted snow source from the upper catchment. The little impact summer rain events have on observed river flow The impact that

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    hidden sun. It rained. It had been raining for seven years; thousand upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the

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    Grasslands are lands that have a lot of grass! Grasslands have very few trees. This is because it does not rain enough to grow many trees. There are two kinds of grasslands: savannas and temperate grasslands. A savanna is a grassland found in warm climates. The largest savanna is in Africa. Savannas have many herbivores or plant eating animals such as elephants, giraffes, and zebras. Many of these animals eat grass. They also have carnivores or meat eating animals such as lions, cheetahs, and hyenas

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    My Experience In School

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    and practice all my music, memorize it perfectly and perfect my marching skills. So school canceled the next day? Sounded perfect! The next day the big rain started and it didn’t stop till a very long time, it rained for days straight. My mother had stayed home too, since she works for CISD. We were all cozy at home watching the rain, the

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    An electric shock runs through me, rain. I grab my notebook and rush out to my trusty front porch. Long gone is the smell of dirt. A new smell takes place, this calming smell of mud, minerals rising once more, awakening from their deep slumber that lasted through the dry spell also known

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    Creative Writing Midterm

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    so I took a break. My mom and I noticed that it looked like it was going to rain. My dad and brothers did not want to get rained on, so they went to the hot tub in the hotel. My mom and I thought that it would be a light rain when it started, but it started pouring down rain. “Get under the umbrella!” my mom shouted. We got under the umbrella but the wind was pushing the rain under it. I did not mind getting wet but the rain was so heavy that it hurt. The umbrella was not waterproof, so water started

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    Mother Nature can be a wicked, wicked woman. Thanks the weather, farmers and ranchers are really getting hammered this year, and the hits just seem to keep coming. According to information from the National Centers For Environmental Information, there have been nearly a dozen weather and climate disaster events (not including Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, or wildfires) in 2017 where damages have totaled at least a billion dollars. Seeing what you have worked so hard for all your life under water

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    dandelion can be found worldwide as a common ‘weed’. Growing instructions – The dandelion is fairly easy to grow. It requires no special light and instead adapts to the light that is available. It is best to not keep it anywhere too cold or hot. Rain water is the best water for the dandelion. Properties – The dandelion is considered to have healing properties for Muggles and is often used for medicinal purposes. The dandelion also has magical qualities and can grat wishes. Page 3 – 19/7/14

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    A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas - washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a storm, hurricane, or tropical storm or melt water from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods can also occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale less

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