Sentences with phrase «size of the continent»

«Because of the sheer size of the continent and diversity of its travel offering, all three brands will help bring the world to Africa and promote Africa to the world's leading source markets.

At one point, I was a continent the size of a puddle, gliding slowly around a bustling cityscape; at another, a camel the size of a continent, wading knee - deep through the vast ocean.

A few feet thick, sea ice covers one million square miles of ocean in summer and grows to six million square miles in winter, doubling the size of the continent.

Over the past 300 years an area the size of the continent of South America has been converted to plowed land.

Not exact matches

Good data on the exact size of the middle class are hard to come by, but it remains small across most parts of the continent.

A globe can be helpful for seeing the overall shape and size of the world and the different continents.

But roughly 91 percent of Antarctica — nearly twice the size of Australia — is unmapped, and the largest unsurveyed region on the icy continent is a region called Princess Elizabeth Land.

Over time, the average body size of mammals on those other continents approached and then fell well below Africa's.

For example, the Dry Valleys are one of the few places on the massive continent — the size of the U.S. and Mexico combined — where bedrock is exposed, allowing geologists to reconstruct the continent's geological history from samples.

The fact that early humans advanced to the Americas despite continent - sized glaciers standing in the way has also prompted him to rethink the conventional wisdom that early humans, like other animals, migrated solely in search of food.

«They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,» says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

SHANGHAI — China has a long and successful track record of scaling up its industrial growth by hitching it to a continent - size home market.

New space observatories, huge earthbound telescopes and a continent - sized radio array will probe the origins of stars, elements and the universe itself

The economic collapse that followed the end of communism in Russia in the early 1990s has given rise to a TB epidemic in vast regions of the continent - size country.

Looking at indicators of population size and density (such as the number of stone tools, animal remains, and total number of sites), he concluded that modern humans — who may have had a population of only a few thousand when they first arrived on the continent — came to outnumber the Neanderthals by a factor of ten to one.

And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.

That date coincides with the Siberian flood volcanism — a continent - size flow of lava pouring out on Earth's surface from below its crust.

As archaic humans, Neanderthals and other hominin species migrated out of Africa, what followed was a wave of size - biased extinction in mammals on all continents that intensified over time.

A continent - sized sunspot vanished within an hour of a solar flare earlier this year, marking the first time scientists have seen a spot fade so quickly.

«One of the most surprising finds was that 125,000 years ago, the average body size of mammals on Africa was already 50 percent smaller than on other continents,» said Smith, a professor in the UNM Department of Biology who has studied megafauna extinction for more than 15 years.

Every year, delegations are sent from Beijing to every urban corner of this continent - size nation to run random checks, aiming to hunt down corrupted officials and straying contractors.

Employing such reservoirs into their models is supported by geophysical observations of two, continent - sized regions — one below the Pacific Ocean and one below parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Africa — sitting atop the core - mantle boundary.

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 giant seabirds — all of them extinct and all the size of today's albatrosses or larger — ranged worldwide, because their fossils have been found on all continents.

About the size of Lake Ontario, it is the largest of the more than 200 liquid lakes strewn around the continent under the ice.

The ozone hole this year grew to a size of 10.9 million square miles, which is larger than the continent of North America.

In particular, VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) uses a global network of radio telescopes spread across different continents to form a virtual Earth - sized telescope.

It not only provided meat and milk (2) but also enabled the development of continent - sized nomadic empires, by transforming warfare and allowing for the rapid spread of goods and information over long distances.

Over 300 varieties (all sizes) of Aloe Vera plants exist on our planet with different ones on each continent.

Lots of chaff to sift through, things in wrong categories, and sizing widely varying between sellers / continents.

The full set of resources contains Table signs - 2 sets flag bunting - 2 sets country flags - All 32 flags in picture format Display borders - 3 sets country flag reference sheets - 2 sets World cup groups - A4 sheets for each group with flags Reference flag mat - 2 sets Bookmarks - country Names and flags for all 32 countries Country flags colouring sheets - each country in 4 differing sizes bingo - 32 cards in two games - flags and country names Paper chains / wrist bands - 2 sets dominoes / loop cards - 3 sets - capital, flags and country outlines Fixtures display - daily sheets showing each day's fixtures Matching / snap / pairs games - 11 sets of this - involving combinations of flags, names, capitals and outlines Find the country - find and label each country on a world and each continent map Writing frames - 5 sheets for each of teh 32 nations Cryptograms - for each of the countries - 3 differentiated levels.

Australia ~ which is 3x the size of Greenland ~ is considered a continent.

Each received 289 Hi - Po motors and heavy - duty modifications to handle the tough terrain of the continent, such as reinforced frames and six - point roll cages plus full - size Mercury front rotors and calipers, and rear drums.

Since the country was doubled in size by the Louisiana Purchase, there has been a passion for expansion, for pushing the boundaries farther west, a mission to bring the new enlightenment of the «American Ideal» to the entire continent.

As a consequence, breeders more interested in money than in preservation of proper breed characteristics and standards flooded the continent with dogs of diminishing quality, widely varying sizes and notably inferior temperaments.

With 50 countries and sovereign states packed into a continent roughly the same size as the United States, Europe can offer road trippers the chance to sample an extensive range of different cultures and traditions.

This vast continent - more than twice the size of Europe by area - is one of the most environmentally - diverse regions on Earth.

Take in the immense size of the North American continent, where vast cities sit beside spectacular landscapes.

As the world's largest continent, Asia's size and diversity are sure to provide plenty of options to amaze and delight even the most experienced traveler.

Likewise an electrically charged hammer is a devastating weapon, and not just because hammers are the size of sodding continents in Amalur!

In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, humanity is a parasite that lives on the backs of Titans, continent - sized mythical beings whose limbs stretch as great plains off into the distance, whose spinal columns rise like the Himalayas, and whose guts drop like caverns.

«With thousands of players fighting simultaneously across several beautiful, massive continents, the size and intensity of PlanetSide 2 has no equal.

The World you encompass seems pretty large, 3 decent sized continents with a myriad of different (and unique) towns.

Cakeman, the centerpiece of the exhibition, is a life - sized sculpture of an aristocrat dressed in elaborate Victorian dress made out of Shonibare's trademark Dutch wax African batik fabric, which through its Indonesian design references Asia and the continent's colonial practices.

We've got jungle, tundra, desert, countries the size of other continents, countries a person can walk across in a day, and even a country that is a continent (hi, Australia)-- attempting to decide which five nations are doing the worst job protecting endangered species is an impossible and ultimately unproductive task.

«Our results suggest that, in contrast to other proposals to increase planetary albedo, offsetting mean global warming by reducing marine cloud droplet size does not necessarily lead to a drying, on average, of the continents.

So in order to simulate the climate of the earth you will have to say where there are continents, mountain ranges, the amount of gas in the atmosphere, and something as simple as the size of the earth.

The greatest potential damage caused by space weather in economic terms would be the destruction of infrastructure required for continent - sized power distribution systems.

At the other end of the earth, the 2 - kilometer - thick Antarctic ice sheet, which covers a continent about twice the size of Australia and contains 70 percent of the world's fresh water, is also beginning to melt.

MODIS - based Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) data sets: Continent - wide surface morphology and snow grain size.