Sentences with phrase «about topography»

It's been said that we know more about the topography of the moon than we do about some parts of the ocean floor.

our surf guides can take you to spots that suit your level and give you necessary information about the topography of each and every spot in the area.

Learning about topography can deepen student's understanding of consequences of climate change, such as sea level rise.

On one recent afternoon, fifth - graders reflected on passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.»

The waves travel at differing speeds depending on the materials they flow through, which provides clues about the topography of the interior: Faster - moving waves, for instance, generally indicate denser rock.

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Orientation which acts as the all - embracing is thoroughly godless; godless also is the theologian who places his god in causality, a helping formula of orientation, and the spiritualist who knows his way about in the «true world» and sketches its topography.

We get a glimpse of the relationship between the two churches in the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes (the Indian navigator) which was written about A.D. 547.

Learn about these wines and the topography of our estate vineyard: Regan Estate Vineyards Fact Sheet.

About this Book: The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks Terry Tempest Williams Sarah Crichton Books, 2016

The site offers up - to - minute reports about the latest deep - sea exploration missions as researchers investigate the deep ocean's otherworldly topography and bizarre inhabitants.

«The full range of topography on Mars is about 19 miles.

Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student Paul Corlies, first author on «Titan's Topography and Shape at the End of the Cassini Mission.»

This unexpected, yet - to - be-named feature (colored mid - to dark brown in the exaggerated topography above) stretches 750 kilometers — about twice the length the Grand Canyon — from central Greenland (lower center of image) all the way to a fjord along the northwestern coast (top of image).

«There is lot of value in examining the topography of Titan in a broad, global sense, since it tells us about forces acting on the surface from below as well as above,» said Radebaugh.

An image of a rocky planet describes the topography of its surface, from which geologists can draw some conclusions about the planet's history, but it tells us little about its inner workings or how the surface features formed.

In particular, the system relies on information about the variation of submarine topography, of the depths and shapes of underwater terrain, known in technical terms as «bathymetry.»

Capable of achieving propagation speeds of about 435 miles per hour in deep water, tsunamis can get reflected and refracted due to changes in topography / bathymetry along shorelines.

The Psyche spacecraft would orbit the huge metal asteroid for about 12 months, studying the topography, gravity, magnetic field and other surface features, and carry a suite of instruments, including magnetometer, imager, gamma ray and neutron spectrometer.

The full range of topography on Mars is about 19 miles (30 kilometers), one and a half times the range of elevations found on Earth, The most curious aspect of the map is the striking difference between the planet's low, smooth Northern Hemisphere and the heavily cratered Southern Hemisphere,» which sits, on average, about three miles (five kilometers) higher than the north.

It will be able to map about 95 % of the ice - free oceans» topography every 10 days and help scientists monitor ocean circulation, climate change and sea level rise.

On the most superficial level, Google Earth can help teach students about geography, distance, and topography.

Studying Topography, Orographic Rainfall, and Ecosystems with Geospatial Information Technology (STORE), a 4.5 - year National Science Foundation funded project, explored the strategies that stimulate teacher commitment to the project's driving innovation: having students use geospatial information technology (GIT) to learn about weather, climate, and ecosystems.

Applied Behavior Analysis talks about the «topography» of behaviors, and there is nowhere the need is clearer than in teaching functional skills.

Lesson 1 introduces basic meteorological concepts about the relationship between weather systems and topography.

Despite the unpleasant reception we received from the topography, one of the things I'll always remember about Turkmenistan is that random drivers on the highway greeted us with more friendship and cheer than in any other country.

There are about 18 dive sites around the three islands, with a variety of topography (slopes, walls, ridges and canyons) and an enormous amount of diverse marine life.

He pointed out its details about the amazing topography in the jungle, telling us about trees to avoid and trees that could help us in healing cuts and bruises.

Diving in Nusa Lembongan There are about 18 dive sites around the islands of Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida, with a variety of topography, the marine area surrounding Nusa Lembongan offers some of the best diving to be found anywhere!

Australia is about the same size as the continental U.S., with diverse and gorgeous topography.

There are about 25 dive sites around the islands of Trawangan, Meno and Gili Air, with a variety of topography (slopes, walls, ridges and canyons) and an enormous amount of diverse marine life.

One facet of Manuel Antonio to think about is its topography.

I don't believe for a second whatever guff EA is pushing about real NASA satellite topography in SSX, because these drops — that's what you call a «level» or «track» in a snowboarding game about a helicopter dropping you off at the top of a mountain — are marvel worthy fantasies, designed for gameplay first, foremost, and perhaps only.

When Joseph Cornell first met Marcel Duchamp, the artists spent some time talking about the minutiae of Parisian topography in faultless French.

For more information about Michal Rovner: Topography, please contact Pace's public relations department at 212.421.8987.

Asking old questions about the joint fictions of reality and the photographic medium in ways that take us beyond the documentary and the poetical, No Greater Fiction pictures the often dystopian experiences, shifting scales and topographies of the real by reminding us that being aware of make - believes does not obliterate our need to have them.

Robert Bordo: I was reading Smithson, liking Richard Long and conceptual artists that were working with topography, mapping, thinking about nature, landscape, the outdoors, the trail.

Again about WAIS collapse Here at this mark 35 mins in R. Alley explains why Ice Sheet retreat is based on thresholds (local topography).

While we know that treeline can be climatically «elastic» in the space of both latitude and altitude, i.e., moving north and south and up and down with topography, this paper raises important issues about rates of ecological adaption, rates that are being tested by contemporary rates of change forced by human activities.

It's about 200 km before the topography starts rising again.

There is nothing unique about the geography and / or the topography of the US when compared to the Northern Hemisphere as a whole, and it covers a number of different climatic zones.

For tall, steep, midocean topography, such as the Hawaiian Ridge, it is estimated that about 85 % of the energy in the internal tide propagates away into the deep ocean with about 15 % of its energy being lost within about 50 km of the generation site.

The topography (e.g., the Andes) modulates the precipitation patterns so that they are less concentric about the subsolar point than in the aquaplanet simulations in Merlis and Schneider (2010).

The wide range of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger variety of information about the project and its data products for a much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).

How about a few, or more than a few, variations on the theme of Jubilee Wharf, reflecting the topography, style, local production, sentiments and ambitions of people in different parts of the country?