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    A Volcano is a mountain or hill that has a crater running through it filled with lava, rocks, gas and hot vapour that will erupt. There are three types of volcanoes, there is the Cinder Cone volcano which is the smallest, the Shield volcano which is in most cases the biggest and the Composite volcano which can be the most deadly. Cinder Cone volcanoes are the smallest type of volcano out of the three, their eruptions are small and they are the most common volcano. They tend to be small hill sized

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    Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the largest planet in the solar system. However, Jupiter's size is not its distinguishing feature. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a giant, rotating storm that has been raging for hundreds of years. “It is generally reddish in color, slightly oval in shape, and approximately 16,500 km (10,250 miles) wide—large enough to engulf Earth,” says Encyclopedia Britannica. Wind speed on and around this spot can exceed four hundred miles per hour! The atmosphere

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    The Great Mahele

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    In 1848, An event called the “Mahele” changed the traditional Hawaiian system of land tenure from communal use to private ownership (Kameeleihiwa 3). Events in the past of Hawaii, like the Mahele of 1848, left a devastating mark in Hawaii’s history; It helped eventually lead to the overthrow of the monarch and still affects today’s problems in Hawaii. To understand the native Hawaiian’s perspective of the Mahele, one must first learn the Hawaiian mentality. In Hawaiian culture it is believed that

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    Hawai Case Study

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    It's unparelled system style involves threesome large titanium-clad cones, which represents the actual volcanoes Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa as well as Hualalai. The particular sizeable home gardens cam a person, endemical as well as "canoe plants" brought through the Polynesians. Demonstrate halls, planetarium, reward lookup, as well as Atmosphere Garden café are generally ajar

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    Thesis: At convergent boundaries, mountains, volcanoes, and other natural things can occur because when the plates collide, one plate is forced above the other and this happens because of the density and composition of the minerals and elements in the plates. Story: To start on our journey Jay and I started out towards magnetic north using our GPS (global positioning system) on a beautiful mountain in the great state of Hawaii. You don’t realize how beautiful nature and the world is until

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    Big Island of Hawaii. These islands have the biggest mountain range of the world. The Hawaiian islands cover 6,459 square miles and the land area is 6,423 square miles. The highest poin in Hawaii is Mauna Kea which is 13,796 feet into the sky. The lowest poin in Hawaii is at Pacific Ocean edge. Mauna Loa is the largest volcanic mountain in the world measures 13,679 ft in volume. The Mean Elevation is 3,03 feet above sea level. The highest temperature is 100 degree Fahrenheit which recored on April

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    Have you ever felt a sense of pride knowing that you are part of an amazing culture? Imagine having that sense of pride being taken away from you because that is exactly what is happening in Hawaii. According to Jessica Hui only about 0.2% (30,000) of Hawaii's 1.3 million residents can speak Hawaiian as a first and second language. Hawaii is losing its culture at a rapid rate. If this problem continues to grow, then Hawaii's economy will be greatly impacted as well. For instance, if we lose

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    know that there are 186,738 people currently living on the Big Island and 43,263 of them live in Hilo? The Big Island is quite populated with five volcanoes with two being active. The Big Island has many black sand beaches and an observatory on Mauna Kea. While on Oahu, there are only two volcanoes with none being active, but there is over one million people living on Oahu. While Big Island and Oahu have many differences, they also have quite a bit of similarities. There are many similarities between

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    Pluto Research Papers

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    "It is currently almost directly overhead in the early-morning eastern sky in the constellation Cetus," notes Brown. The planet was discovered by, in addition to Brown, Chad Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and David Rabinowitz, of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. They first photographed the new planet with the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope on October 31, 2003. The object was so far away, however, that its motion was not detected

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    Kepler-452b Observation

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    The discovery of Kepler-452b “Second Earth” wasn’t easy for the astronomers . In 2009,NASA’s kepler spacecraft has been observing stars for the photometer , an instrument that uses to detect transit events , in which a planet crosses in front and dims the star host’s brief and roughly regular period of time . In this last test Kepler observed 50000 stars , including Kepler-452 ; the exploratory light curves in the Kepler science team were sent for analysis . To help confirm the finding and better

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