Essays on Earth Page 7

Over 5,000 years ago, the priests of Babylon and Ancient Egypt were recording the movements of the moon and stars for manufacturing calendars, farming, and religious holidays. Today, astronomers have successfully identified roughly 1,700 planets, and over 500 confirmed solar systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Nonetheless, humanity challenges weather space travel is necessary….

Cloud Formation Cloud A cloud is a visible mass of condensation droplets. Water moves into the atmosphere through the process of evaporation and transpiration. Water vapors join the dust particles in the atmosphere to form clouds.  Finally, water returns to Earth as precipitation in the form of rain, snow, and hail. Clouds cannot be formed…

Introduction The aim of this design project is to prepare a feasible report for the storage of 450tons of apple for a period about 4 month. It is desired to design a controlled atmosphere cold storage facility and calculate the optimum total, fixed and variable costs in Eregli, Konya. The highest temperature in Eregli, Konya…

There are several factors that influence the growth and distribution of aparticular regions primary industries. These primary industries, are necessaryfor an economy to grow. Without a primary industry, which could also be callednatural resources, secondary, tertiary and quaternary industries would strugglein a country (excluding Japan etc.). These factors also affect where peoplelive. If you were…

 The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is the area encircling the earth near the equator where winds originating in the northern and southern hemispheres come together. Consequences of the ITCZ’s movement are the “monsoon seasons” that affect areas in the tropics, as well as the formation of tropical storms during the local hemispheric summer (north or…

The heat gradient of the earth’s surface serves as the driving force for atmospheric circulation (Hodell & Thomas, 2000). The resulting differences in the temperature of different areas also bring forth a variation in pressure. When there is a difference in terms of pressure, air movement is initiated, and thus, wind is formed. Also, since…

The hydro-ecosphere provides a more favorable environment for microorganisms compared to the atmosphere and lithosphere due to the presence of water. Water plays a crucial role in microbial metabolism (Atlas and Bartha, 1993). The unique properties of water also make it suitable as a habitat within the hydrosphere. Water’s polarity, with its slight negative and…

Jupiter is a gas giant. This means that it has a huge atmosphere, a liquid mantle, and a liquid / solid core, with no definite boundary between the layers. The core officiate is probably composed of liquid rock, at a temperature as high as 24,000 K (43,000 OF). The core is small relative to the…

Describe how the use of a tall smoke stack might improve air quality near a large industrial facility. A taller smoke stack in an industrial area would improve air quality over shorter stacks. At night, when there is a temperature inversion, pollution from shorter stacks can become trapped and cannot rise any higher than the…

The El Niño/ ENSO phenomenon refers to the abnormal warming or cooling of the waters in the Pacific Ocean. This is caused by a shift of warm waters in the Pacific from west to east, resulting in various metrological anomalies around the world. The normal system sees the east west winds depositing warm water in…