Sentences with phrase «cover of the continents»

Since prehistoric times, humans have altered the land cover of the continents to suit their economic and cultural enterprises.

In this data activity, students create maps of the snow cover of each continent, and determine the average global snow cover.

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From its beginning in 1967 as a producer of bed blankets, the company has grown to sell its products on three continents via seven market segments covering a broad range of client industries.

He has worked at Wall Street firms covering three continents, including at Bank of America, BNP Paribas and Nomura.

That team has grown to cover five continents, which means we're bringing to the Index an ever - greater depth of knowledge.

We are strong across all of our six key industry sectors and our global reach covers six continents.

In the tenth century, when the original European forests began to be converted to farmland and pasturage, ninety percent of the entire continent was covered by trees; today only twenty percent of these trees remain (Myers 1979, 121).

The merger will allow Hope for Justice to expand its efforts of tackling modern day slavery to cover four continents: Europe, Africa, North America and Asia.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimCover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimcover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.).

Then, only seven or eight thousand years ago, there came the first civilizations, each covering a large part of a continent.

Howe covers the great technical innovations of the period: the 363 - mile Erie Canal that first dependably linked the East Coast with the interior; the railroads that sped people and commerce over long stretches of the continent; and the telegraph, which in 1844 clicked out the message Howe uses for the main title of this book.

Travel is one of her passions — she's visited every continent, and our fridge is covered in magnets from places we've been.

A more complex puzzle that would be a fun challenge for all is the Janod Toys Round Observation Puzzle or the Our Blue Planet Puzzle which is covered in amazing illustrations of the continents and what people who live on those continents do, the animals that live with them and what clothing they wear.

After the U.S. pullout from the Iran deal, the influential weekly Der Spiegel called on Germany to become part of the «resistance against America» and pictured Trump on its cover as a yellow - haired middle finger to the continent.

Supervolcanoes are capable of releasing more than 1000 cubic kilometres of material in one eruption, enough to cover an entire continent with ash.

Marchant suspects more of these landforms are buried under ice, which covers more than 98 percent of the continent.

The Antarctic ice sheet, the thick layer of ice covering much of the continent, is anchored in place by its floating fringe, shelves of ice that jut out into the surrounding ocean.

Now, continents cover 40 % of the planet.

Oceanic crust is the thin layer of solidified volcanic basalt that covers the Earth's mantle where there are no continents.

The dot's color could be crudely diagnostic, with one hue suggesting a global ocean whereas another might portend vegetation - covered continents or arid plains of sunbaked rock.

Many speculate these landforms are present throughout Antarctica, buried beneath the thick layer of ice that covers 98 percent of the continent.

Cultivated part of hell Toward the middle of the year the Beagle left behind the South American continent and set sail for the Galápagos islands, where the crew came upon a cheerless scenario: «A jagged field of [irregular or wavelike layers of] black, basaltic lava pockmarked with huge fissures, and covered everywhere with stunted, sun - burnt brushwood,» Darwin complained in his report.

Along with my fellow field assistant Keith Heyward, I was joining Marchant and his graduate student, Sean Mackay, flying 60 miles across the sea ice to the Dry Valleys, a series of valleys and ridges that lie roughly east to west and largely free of the ice that covers 98 percent of the continent.

It is home to some of the world's oldest rainforests, lush tropical jungles with dense canopies that cover the northeastern tip of the continent.

For several years, scientists at the Polar Research Institute of China in Shanghai, who are also members of IPICS, have been probing the ice sheet that covers Dome A, a plateau close to the centre of the Antarctic continent.

Often it would begin advancing on one continent, with the others only being covered thousands of years later, and then linger on a few continents several millennia after it had disappeared from the others.

Some geologists speculate that massive volcanic eruptions covering areas as large as modern continents triggered the release of methane buried in the ocean floor, causing a greenhouse effect.

A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the continent took precedence, ultimately leading to the sheet's demise.

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

The 1.4 billion of acres of thriving, sprawling biology that cover the Amazon help drive the very metabolism of a continent.

However, the enforcement officer's brief will cover all American activities on the continent, leaving little time to monitor the activities of tourists, says the NSF's Jack Talmadge.

In the last year, a slew of papers has highlighted the vulnerability of the ice sheet covering the western half of the continent, suggesting that its downfall is inevitable — and probably already underway.

The ocean contains 320 million cubic miles of water covering 140 million miles of seafloor, more than twice the area of all the continents combined, and we've only had a look at tiny bits of it.

Ms Lee said Antarctic ice - free areas cover less than one per cent of the continent, ranging from the size of a football pitch to the size of a small Pacific Island.

These European reptiles inhabited warm, shallow seas of the continent, but «they were not as agile in this environment as today's sea turtles, who are able to cover very large distances and cross seas and even oceans,» the expert explains.

Before Europeans settled North America, as many as 400 million beavers inhabited an area covering about 15 million square kilometers (about 60 % of the continent).

Joseph Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology remains convinced that ice covered tropical continents in the late Precambrian.

The team's statistical analyses considered nearly 358,896 pairs of organisms in 80 plant or mammal communities on different continents, with data sets that collectively covered the last 300 million years of earth history — including data sets that spanned the huge Permian - Triassic extinction (the «Great Dying» 252 million years ago), the Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction of the dinosaurs (66 million years ago), and a period of rapid global climate change around 56 million years ago.

Heavy cloud cover, dust and light - reflecting aerosols from volcanoes, also a consequence of the flood, further cooled the continents.

The Traps (India) have a thickness of < 3000 m and cover an area of c. 100 000 km2 that initially erupted within a continental rift setting and eventually transitioned into the opening of a nascent ocean basin that formed the Neotethys Ocean and the ribbon - like continent Cimmeria.

[6] According to Macdougall (2004), Charpentier and Venetz disapproved of the ideas of Agassiz who extended their work claiming that most continents were once covered by ice.

This study is the latest in a growing body of research that suggests dwindling sea ice and snow cover in the polar regions may be altering the weather over the continents of the Northern Hemisphere.

It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of 983,482 square kilometers (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth largest of Australians six states and two territories.

While most dating sites focus on US continent, there are those that cover European nations, and GermanFriendFinder.com is one of those sites, a part of a huge dating and personals network dedicated exclusively to helping German couples get together.

The entire database covers practically every continent and region of the world, including Boston.

The entire database covers practically every continent and region of the world, including California singles.

The entire database covers practically every continent and region of the world, including Ohio singles.

The entire database covers practically every continent and region of the world, including Oklahoma singles.

The entire database covers practically every continent and region of the world, including Nashville singles.

How the island continent's wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a variety of forms — the eucalypt, where once the continent was covered in a dense rainforest.