Sentences with phrase «lived at the surface»

Different species of these lived at the surface and the bottom of the ocean.

When an earthquake strikes, the release of energy creates seismic waves that often wreak havoc for life at the surface.

Dip beneath the ocean and the pressure starts to rise, causing problems for anything adapted to living at the surface, like us.

Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land and ocean.

HABITAT Gray whales live at the surface of the ocean near the coastline but dive to the bottom to feed.

'' «It all amounts to a mystery, but a troubling one because ozone protects life at the surface from incoming ultraviolet radiation, and any thinning of total ozone in the stratosphere is cause for concern.

Not exact matches

«He's the only one for our country that, for all of us, is going to even scratch the surface at giving us a chance to have a future where we're not living in a depression for the next 10, 15 years.

Other features to look for are battery life — many take two AAA batteries, so they are at least easy to keep charged up — and a locking mechanism so you aren't committed to using your keyboard on a flat surface.

The Surface Book 2 base model starts at just $ 1,499, and comes with a 7th Generation Intel Core i5 - 7300U processor, Intel HD Graphics 620 integrated GPU, a 13.5 - inch PixelSense display and an average 17 - hour battery life.

Workstation: «This is my life,» Kennedy says of the two Surface tablets linked to a larger touchscreen («I like to see a lot of things at the same time,» she says).

While we may be on the cusp of change, most large company compensation committee members don't have more than a surface understanding of how their decisions to squeeze worker pay affect the economy, their businesses, and the lives of the people who work at the companies they represent.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

Then with the hand of your pastor or your friends, sometimes both, at your back your face breaks the surface of the water and you breathe in new life.

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

For John, belief is the capacity to see not only life's surfaces but also its holy depths, to be able to look at events unfolding around us but also to look through them, above them and beneath them to perceive what is truly happening.

One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.

This does not mean that choice is not involved per se, it simply means that choice is at the very least, a amalgamation of a great many things churning beneath the surface of one's life.

It's what happens when the questions you've pushed down your whole life finally bubble over the surface, and you're forced to stare honestly at your doubts.

Enveloped in the blue mist of oxygen which its life breathes, it floats at exactly the right distance from the sun to enable the higher chemisms to take place on its surface.

At the same time, one must acknowledge that part of the special enchantment of the novel, considered as a distinct literary form, is the illusion it can create of a fully realized world; a truly great novel is like a magic mirror, whose surface reflects not only the appearances, but the souls of living men and women.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Setting aside the fact that there is no more evidence for a god, heaven, or hell than there is for extraterrestrial life, unicorns, or a race of mole people who seek to destroy the surface world, you have to recognize that religions, at a fundamental level, punish those who deny their faith, be it in this life or the next.

All of us have some mental picture into which we fit the particular bit of the earth's surface on which we live, and the starry sky we see at night.

And as I scratched harder at the surface of my assumptions about what the liturgical life meant, I begin to wonder how I could live a liturgical life at home with my kids, celebrating all the lovely, ancient, traditions I was discovering.

I must have given her one of my famous WTF looks looks because I'm thinking in what bizarro universe does this woman live in where removing your shoes actually means walking all over clean surfaces while wearing your shoes because the next thing I know, she's yelling at me, «I'm just trying to get my kids out of here.

Frank Madena, R&D Surface Technologies & Materials, Head of Quality Management at EMSA, comments: «EMSA's dedicated team works hard every day to develop products that make life at home and on - the - go simpler and more beautiful; all underlined by a commitment to sustainability.

And hand over hand the lines came in, rasping on the gunwales, the slim, blue - green fish taking shape deep in the clear water as we hauled, then splashing at the surface, rattling out their lives on the bottom boards and in the fish boxes.

Employment and housing are but two examples (and I only scratched at the surface), but they are indicative of a huge problem — the everyday systems (often invisible) that determine enormously important parts of our lives are stacked against people of color.

It all looked good on the surface, but scratch pre-season and enter real life and we lose to an average West Ham side at home, without creating a 100 % chance.

It is recommended that infants sleep in the parents» room, close to the parents» bed, but on a separate surface designed for infants, ideally for the first year of life, but at least for the first 6 months.

This table measures in at 48» x 24» x 32» with a life - like green 40.5» x 23» playing surface.

Life with a new baby is easiest at home where care becomes routinized and there are many safe surfaces to place baby, unlike in the wilderness.

Normal bacteria live in the mouth and interact with leftover food particles — between the teeth, at the gum line, on the tongue, or on the surface of the tonsils at the back of your child's throat.

Jim Kasting, a geoscientist at Pennsylvania State University in State College, says that the soil on Mars has proved to be so lethal that the «chances of finding life in the martian near - surface environment are close to nil.»

Microbiologist James Holden of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst speculates that our planet's deep biomass could weigh as much as all the things living up here on the surface.

Some researchers took the presence of perchlorate as another sign that life on Mars's surface is unlikely, since the compound is a powerful oxidizer, acting like a bleach at high temperatures.

The team found that species of foraminifera living on the sea floor around the time of the ice age contained more carbon than those that floated at the surface (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1188605).

During this cruise we are looking at the diatom species currently living in the surface waters in order to develop our understanding of their habitats.

Atmospheric events occurring at the ocean surface may sound the dinner bell for creatures living in the dark depths.

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

«Mantle convection is the heat engine that drives plate tectonics at the surface and ultimately leads to things like volcanoes and earthquakes that affect people living on the surface.»

Spend 40 years by the shores of the Dead Sea, at the lowest elevations on the Earth's surface, and you'll age 48 microseconds less than someone living at sea level, and 750 microseconds less than the residents of La Rinconada in Peru, at an altitude of 5100 metres

New research suggests that surface - generated eddies help distribute heat, chemistry and life at deep - ocean hydrothermal vents

After their energetic swim, the hatchlings had entered a lazier stage of life, basking at the surface.

THINKING OUTSIDE THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE The hunt for extraterrestrial life has long focused on planets at a just - right distance from alien stars, where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface.

Nicholas Clements, a director at Delos Labs, is collecting samples of the office microbiome: bacteria, fungi and more that live in the office's nooks and crannies, and on the surfaces that people touch every day.

If it turns out to be common, it might mean that the moon could be cycling life - friendly compounds between the surface and the deep, and that substantially increases the chance that its ocean is habitable, says Michael Bland, a planetary scientist at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Webb will peer at the starlight filtering through planetary atmospheres to try to detect molecules that could be produced by something living on the surface.

The first inklingsof life far below the surface came in the 1920s, when a microbiologist and ageologist at the University of Chicago cultured anaerobic (non-oxygen-breathing) bacteria from Illinoisoil wells 2,000 feet deep.

This «Living Skyscraper» was designed with residential apartments at its core and a fringe of edible plant life spiraling across its outer surface.