Long Island Coastal Homes

can i please get some help on as many as you can of these. i know the rest but no these ones

1. Rain forests are important because they contribute to the world’s supply of (1 point)
soil.
oxygen.
food.
harbors.
2. The capital of Brazil was moved from the coast to the interior because the government wished to (1 point)
develop the interior by attracting people to it.
provide services to people living in the rain forest.
move the capital to where more people already lived.
move from the flooding and heavy rains that plagued the coast.
3. The three main geographic regions of Peru are the (1 point)
sierra, the rain forest, and the plateau.
pampas, the rain forest, and the montaña.
selva, the sierra, and the pampas.
sierra, the coastal plain, and the selva.
4. Most Quechua people living in the altiplano make a living by (1 point)
trading goods with city people.
farming and herding.
mining gold.
drilling for oil.
5. Chile inspects all luggage brought into the country because (1 point)
the country tries to protect its agricultural products.
maracas are illegal in Chile.
most people try to avoid paying customs duties.
it does not allow imports of gifts.
6. Because Chile is located in the Southern Hemisphere, its seasons (1 point)
are much longer than those in the United States.
are much shorter than those in the United States.
occur at the same time as those in the United States.
occur at the opposite time as those in the United States.
7. Chile is the world’s largest exporter of (1 point)
diamonds.
potatoes.
copper.
oil.
8. In the early 1980s, Venezuela was the richest country in Latin America because of (1 point)
a booming tourist industry.
abundant rain forest resources.
vast supplies of oil.
thriving agricultural production.
9. When oil prices fell in the mid-1980s, Venezuela’s economy (1 point)
suffered a decline.
enjoyed an increase.
stayed about the same.
began to show signs of recovery.
10. Most of Venezuela’s population lives (1 point)
in cities.
in the countryside.
on islands of floating reeds.
in the rain forest.

1 oxygen
4 farming

1. Rain forests are important because they contribute to the world’s supply of

soil.
oxygen.
food.
harbors.

2. The capital of Brazil was moved from the coast to the interior because the government wished to

develop the interior by attracting people to it.
provide services to people living in the rain forest.
move the capital to where more people already lived.
move from the flooding and heavy rains that plagued the coast.

3. The three main geographic regions of Peru are the

sierra, the rain forest, and the plateau.
pampas, the rain forest, and the montaña.
selva, the sierra, and the pampas.
sierra, the coastal plain, and the selva.

4. Most Quechua people living in the altiplano make a living by

trading goods with city people.
farming and herding.
mining gold.
drilling for oil.

5. Chile inspects all luggage brought into the country because

the country tries to protect its agricultural products.
maracas are illegal in Chile.
most people try to avoid paying customs duties.
it does not allow imports of gifts.

6. Because Chile is located in the Southern Hemisphere, its seasons

are much longer than those in the United States.
are much shorter than those in the United States.
occur at the same time as those in the United States.
occur at the opposite time as those in the United States.

7. Chile is the world’s largest exporter of

diamonds.
potatoes.
copper.
oil.

8. In the early 1980s, Venezuela was the richest country in Latin

America because of
a booming tourist industry.
abundant rain forest resources.
vast supplies of oil.
thriving agricultural production.

9. When oil prices fell in the mid-1980s, Venezuela’s economy

suffered a decline.
enjoyed an increase.
stayed about the same.
began to show signs of recovery.

10. Most of Venezuela’s population lives

in cities.
in the countryside.
on islands of floating reeds.
in the rain forest.

1-a
2-a
3-b
4-b
5-a
6-d
7-c
8-c
9-a
10-a

1. Rain forests are important because they contribute to the world’s supply of (1 point)
soil.
oxygen.
food.
harbors.
2. The capital of Brazil was moved from the coast to the interior because the government wished to (1 point)
develop the interior by attracting people to it.
provide services to people living in the rain forest.
move the capital to where more people already lived.
move from the flooding and heavy rains that plagued the coast.
3. The three main geographic regions of Peru are the (1 point)
sierra, the rain forest, and the plateau.
pampas, the rain forest, and the montaña.
selva, the sierra, and the pampas.
sierra, the coastal plain, and the selva.
4. Most Quechua people living in the altiplano make a living by (1 point)
trading goods with city people.
farming and herding.
mining gold.
drilling for oil.
5. Chile inspects all luggage brought into the country because (1 point)
the country tries to protect its agricultural products.
maracas are illegal in Chile.
most people try to avoid paying customs duties.
it does not allow imports of gifts.
6. Because Chile is located in the Southern Hemisphere, its seasons (1 point)
are much longer than those in the United States.
are much shorter than those in the United States.
occur at the same time as those in the United States.
occur at the opposite time as those in the United States.
7. Chile is the world’s largest exporter of (1 point)
diamonds.
potatoes.
copper.
oil.
8. In the early 1980s, Venezuela was the richest country in Latin America because of (1 point)
a booming tourist industry.
abundant rain forest resources.
vast supplies of oil.
thriving agricultural production.
9. When oil prices fell in the mid-1980s, Venezuela’s economy (1 point)
suffered a decline.
enjoyed an increase.
stayed about the same.
began to show signs of recovery.
10. Most of Venezuela’s population lives (1 point)
in cities.
in the countryside.
on islands of floating reeds.
in the rain forest.

Online cheating on a test, eh..?..
You really should have been paying attention in class.
Sorry, you lose.

Or still doubt that climate change is happening at all.

My personal beliefs :-
There is a powerful lobby, backed by the oil, automobile and other vested inerest industries, that still puts out information to the contrary, even though EVERY scientific study to date confirms global warming. This has now been proved beyond any doubt, and that this change is directly related to industrial and human output of CO2 into the atmosphere.
I await with interest the arrival of the next El Ninjo and its worldwide repercussions.
Being a Sailor (32,000 sea miles experience) and a scuba-diver, I’ve personally witnessed huge changes in weather patterns, so rapid as to be shocking. In every place I’ve visited, locals say the same thing, they can no longer predict what happens with the weather as they did before. Also, so many coral reefs killed off by warmer sea temperatures.
The Ice caps and glaciers melting at an alarming rate.
The "tundra" de-frosting, and this freeing the trapped methane, which is many times more dangerous than CO2.
I see my girlfriends young grandson and wonder how his offsprings life will be. It is our inability to change our consumer and energy consumption habits, which in the end is denying our own offspring the same chances as we ourselves have. We are multiplying the costs to future generations by delaying action now.
I also like coral Islands like those in the Bahamas, and the Maldieves.
I’m not happy that perhaps a billion people may be forced from coastal areas, just because so many people won’t give up their polluting ways now.

There are many more stupid people than intelligent people, and even more selfish people than that. And even the smart, non-selfish ones won’t make sacrifices. So what does it matter. Burn baby burn.

1. Rain forests are important because they contribute to the world’s supply of (1 point)
soil.
oxygen.
food.
harbors.
2. The capital of Brazil was moved from the coast to the interior because the government wished to (1 point)
develop the interior by attracting people to it.
provide services to people living in the rain forest.
move the capital to where more people already lived.
move from the flooding and heavy rains that plagued the coast.
3. The three main geographic regions of Peru are the (1 point)
sierra, the rain forest, and the plateau.
pampas, the rain forest, and the montaña.
selva, the sierra, and the pampas.
sierra, the coastal plain, and the selva.
4. Most Quechua people living in the altiplano make a living by (1 point)
trading goods with city people.
farming and herding.
mining gold.
drilling for oil.
5. Chile inspects all luggage brought into the country because (1 point)
the country tries to protect its agricultural products.
maracas are illegal in Chile.
most people try to avoid paying customs duties.
it does not allow imports of gifts.
6. Because Chile is located in the Southern Hemisphere, its seasons (1 point)
are much longer than those in the United States.
are much shorter than those in the United States.
occur at the same time as those in the United States.
occur at the opposite time as those in the United States.
7. Chile is the world’s largest exporter of (1 point)
diamonds.
potatoes.
copper.
oil.
8. In the early 1980s, Venezuela was the richest country in Latin America because of (1 point)
a booming tourist industry.
abundant rain forest resources.
vast supplies of oil.
thriving agricultural production.
9. When oil prices fell in the mid-1980s, Venezuela’s economy (1 point)
suffered a decline.
enjoyed an increase.
stayed about the same.
began to show signs of recovery.
10. Most of Venezuela’s population lives (1 point)
in cities.
in the countryside.
on islands of floating reeds.
in the rain forest.

1. oxygen
2. develop the interior by attracting people to it.
3. sierra, the coastal plain, and the selva – there is a pampas but it is located within the coastal plain
4. farming and herding
5. the country tries to protect its agricultural products
http://www.turismochile.com/en_turismo.php?id_nodo=1&show=articulos&id_articulo=1047
6. occur at the opposite time as those in the United States
7. copper
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Americas/Chile-MINING.html
8. vast supplies of oil
9. suffered a decline
10. in cities
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5223/is_2003/ai_n19143253

UN panel gives dire warming forecast

VALENCIA, Spain – Global warming is "unequivocal" and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to an eventual rise in sea levels of up to 4.6 feet, the world’s top climate experts warned Saturday in their most authoritative report to date.
"Only urgent, global action will do," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, calling on the United States and China — the world’s two biggest polluters — to do more to slow global climate change.
"I look forward to seeing the U.S. and China playing a more constructive role," Ban told reporters. "Both countries can lead in their own way."
Ban, however, advised against assigning blame.
Climate change imperils "the most precious treasures of our planet," he said, and the effects are "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent global action will do. We are all in this together. We must work together."
According to the U.N. panel of scientists, whose latest report is a synthesis of three previous ones, enough carbon dioxide already has built up that it imperils islands, coastlines and a fifth to two-thirds of the world’s species.
As early as 2020, 75 million to 250 million people in Africa will suffer water shortages, residents of Asia’s large cities will be at great risk of river and coastal flooding, according to the report.
Europeans can expect extensive species loss, and North Americans will experience longer and hotter heat waves and greater competition for water, says the report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore this year.
The panel portrays the Earth hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace and warns of inevitable human suffering. It says emissions of carbon, mainly from fossil fuels, must stabilize by 2015 and go down after that.
In the best-case scenario, temperatures will keep rising from carbon already in the atmosphere, the report said. Even if factories were shut down today and cars taken off the roads, the average sea level will gradually rise over the next 1,000 years to reach as high as 4.6 feet above that in the preindustrial period, or about 1850.
"We have already committed the world to sea level rise," the panel’s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, said. But if the Greenland ice sheet melts, the scientists said, they could not predict by how many feet the seas will rise, drowning coastal cities.
Climate change is here, they said, as witnessed by melting snow and glaciers, higher average temperatures and rising sea levels. If unchecked, global warming will spread hunger and disease, put further stress on water resources, cause fiercer storms and more frequent droughts, and could drive up to 70 percent of plant and animal species to extinction, according to the panel’s report.
The report was adopted after five days of sometimes tense negotiations among 140 national delegations. It lays out blueprints for avoiding the worst catastrophes — and various possible outcomes, depending on how quickly and decisively action is taken.
"The world’s scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice," Ban said, looking ahead to an important climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, next month. "I expect the world’s policy makers to do the same."
The report is intended to both set the stage and serve as a guide for the conference, at which world leaders will begin discussing a global climate change treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
That treaty, which expires in 2012, required industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases and a smooth transition to a new treaty is needed to avoid upsetting the fledgling carbon markets.
"This report will have an incredible political impact," Yvo de Boer, the U.N.’s top climate change official, told The Associated Press. "It’s a signal that politicians cannot afford to ignore."
The United States opted out of Kyoto in 2001, arguing that the science was unproven and that the burden of mandatory emission cuts was unfair since it excluded fast-growing China and India. Chief U.S. delegate Sharon Hays said doubts have been dispelled. "What’s changed since 2001 is the scientific certainty that this is happening," she said in a conference call late Friday. She did not indicate that Washington would abandon its policy of voluntary emission cuts. China and India have said any measures impinging on their development and efforts to lift their people from poverty were unacceptable — a point likely to be heeded at the Bali talks. The report offered dozens of measures for avoiding the worst catastrophes if taken together — at a cost of less than 0.12 percent of the global economy annually until 2050. They ranged from switching to nuclear and gas-fired power stations, developing hybrid cars, using more efficient electrical appliances and managing cropland to store more carbon. Ban said a new agreement should provide funding to help poor countries develop clean energy resources, adapt to climate conditions and give them the technology to help themselves. He said he witnessed the devastation of climate change in disappearing glaciers of Antarctica, the deforested Amazon and under the ozone hole in Chile. "These scenes are as frightening as a science fiction movie," said Ban. "But they are even more terrifying because they are rea

联合国专题小组提出可怕的升温预测
西班牙 瓦伦西亚 全球温室效应越来越严重以及大气中的二氧化碳气体已经导致全球海平面最终上升到4.6英尺，星期六，世界著名的气候专家们在最具权威的专业报告中提出紧急的危机信号。
唯有全球紧急行动，才能解决问题。联合国正部长Ban Ki-Moon呼吁美国和中国–世界的两大污染大国–要做出更大的努力来减缓全球气候的改变。
我希望看到美国和中国在该组织中扮演一个更为重要的角色，Ban告诉记者，两个国家都能作出各自的带头作用，
然而他又反对太过于追究责任。
气候的变化使我们地球上宝贵的资源陷于危险当中，Ban说，温室效应的危害如此的严重和广泛，以至于我们只有催促全球共同行动才能解决问题。我们共同处于大气之中，我们必须一起努力。
联合国科学家专门小组的最新的综合报告包括前面提到的三方面的内容，报告所说，过多的二氧化碳已经形成并对各岛屿，海岸线，以及5分之1到3分之2的物种造成了严重影响。
最早在2020年，7500万到2.5亿的非洲人将会遭受到旱灾，亚洲的各大城市将处于江河和海岸泛滥的危机当中，根据报告所述。
今年与al gore同等享有若贝尔奖的关于气候变化的国际研究报告所诉，欧洲会预期有大范围的物种灭绝，北美将经历漫长的炎热天气以及承受更大的获取淡水资源的竞争压力。研究小组表明地球正以一个快速的节奏升温并警告人们有无法避免这场灾难的危险。报告中说，碳的释放主要是由于化石燃料的燃烧，我们应该在2015年使情况稳定下来并且在2015年之后逐步减少化石燃料的使用。

报告说，在最好的局面下，，温度还是会因大气中的碳而继续升高，即使从今天开始关闭工厂，停止在公路上的汽车行驶，海水平均线还是会在1000年内继续逐渐上升，直到达到4.6码，高过工业化以前的任何时期或在1850年左右的海洋平均水平线之上。
我们已经对世界造成海平面上升的危害，专门小组的主席说。 如果格林兰的冰层融化，科学家说，他们将无法预测海平面将上升多少英尺，淹没多少海岸的大城市，雪与冰河的融化，升高的平均温度和上升的海平面让我们看清目前的气候变化真实影响。
如果气候变化未受到抑制，由于强烈的暴风雨以及更为频繁的干燥，全球变温将会扩散饥饿和疾病以及进一步加大水资源的压力，这些后果将会使70%以上的动植物种灭绝，根据研究小组的报告说。该份报告是用了五天时间，经过140个国家的代表紧张的磋商，最终采纳的报告。设计这份蓝图是为了避免着糟糕的异常大灾祸，以及各种不同寻常的后果，该蓝图的实现依靠我们采取快速果断的行动来实现。
“世界科学家们的意识已经达成一致”本说，我们将在希望下个月在印度尼西亚的巴厘岛举行重要的气候会议，我希望世界的政策家们会一同采取行动来保护我们的家园。
这份报告准备设立一个讨论范围并以此作为气候会议的向导，在此会议上各国首脑讲开始讨论1997年的京都议定书以达成一项关于全球气候变化的新协议。
此协议，有效期至2012年，要求各个工业化国家减少温室气体的排放，并且为了阻止让人类受到威胁的二氧化碳环境继续形成，该协议要求各国平稳转变一个符合该条约的新政策。
这份报告将有着难以置信的政策影响。yvo de Boer，联合国高级气候变化官员，告诉美联社，这是一个政治家们不得不顾虑的信号。
美国在2001年否决了《京度议定书》。美国辩解说，既然该报告中负责任的国家排除了快速发展中的中国和印度，那么该结论是不科学合理的，强制执行该合约对于美国来说是不公平的， 美国代表sharon Hays态度明确的说。
“自从2001年以来的改变是合乎情理的事情。” 她在之后的星期五的电话会议补充道。但她并没有提到华盛顿将放弃自由排放的政策。中国和印度也表明，任何侵害他们发展和影响到他们国家生活水平提高的措施将不会接受。该观点在巴厘岛的谈论中似乎受到关注。
如果共同采取行动，联合国以每年减少0.12％的世界经济的代价来治理气候问题，一直持续到2025年。该报告采取了几十种措施来避免这糟糕的大灾难，设立的范围从小的开关大到核电站，以及以煤气为燃料的发电站，发展中各种小汽车，使用更为有效率的电器设备以及扩大绿化面积来储存更多的碳元素。Ben说，新的协议应提供一个基金来帮助贫穷的国家来发展清洁能源，来调节适合气候条件以及提供他们技术来帮助他们。他说，看见消失南极洲的冰河，被砍伐的亚马逊河和在臭氧空洞下的智利。这些场景就如同科幻小说的电影一样恐怖，本说，但是他们更加恐怖，因为他们是真实的

Now there is an Ozone hole in Chile! Yikes!!

Weather

The weather in Talumpuk Peninsula is heavy rain in October-January

because the influence of northeast monsoon. Febuary-May weather is arid because the influence of southeast monsoon. June-October is moderate rain because the influence of southwest monsoon.

Population

1.) Talumpuk Peninsula District has 2,240 population. There are 1,200 male

and 1,040 female. There is the population density of 76.19.

2.) East Pakpanang District has 8,067 population. There are 4,075 male and

3,992 female. There is the population density of 324.

Income

The average income of Talumpuk Peninsula District is approximately 12,241 per person per year, which ranked 14 in Pakpanang District.

The average income of Eastpakpanang District is approximately 8,749 per person per year, which is the lowest rank in Pakpanang District.

Employment

Most Pakpapang residents are fishermen, general service workers, merchants, or farmers.

Natural Resources

Most natural resources are reserved forests, mangrove forests, and other animals. Talumpuk Peninsula has loads of ark shells, crabs, shrimps, and other seafood.

Monuments

1.) Suteptaram Temple

2.) Talumpuk School

3.) Talumpuk Temple

Attraction

Talumpuk is the longest peninsula in Thailand. There are many beautiful

beaches and small islands that full of Nakhon Sri Thammarat History. There are a small harbour which built for business and tourism. There are many mangrove forests and many animals.

Transportations

It takes approximately 17 kilometers from Nakhon Sri Thammarat to Talumpuk Peninsula by public road number 4013.

Talumpuk Peninsula

Talumpuk Peninsula tilts from west to east until reach the gulf of Thailand. There are huge coastal and beach areas when the water decreases. Talumpuk is a great place for tourism because there is countless fresh seafood around the beach area.

Talumpuk Peninsula was hitted by the worst hurricane on 25 October 2505. It was a tropical storm called Hariod, which moved 90 kilometer per hour, the water level is 5 meters. There were 8 southern provinces that affected by the storm includes: Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Chumporn, Ranong, Krabi, Pangsha, Trang, Tattalung, and Naratiwat.

The government resuscitates the nature by afforest and prohibits to hunt certain animals in the forest.

Pakpanang has a famous peninsula called Talumpuk. Talumpuk is a type of fishes that living in the freshwater. Years ago, there are many Talumpuk fishes and the shape of peninsula looks “Talumpuk” which is a type of tools made from wood that people also called “Talumpuk”

weather
The weather in the Talumpuk Peninsula has heavy rain in October-January

because of the influence of northeast monsoon. Febuary-May weather is arid because the influence of southeast monsoon. June-October is moderate rain because the influence of southwest monsoon.

Population

1.) Talumpuk Peninsula District has a population of2,240. There are 1,200 males

and 1,040 females. There is a population density of 76.19.

2.) East Pakpanang District has a population of 8,067. There are 4,075 males and

3,992 females. There is a population density of 324.

Income

The average income of Talumpuk Peninsula District is approximately 12,241 per person per year, which ranked 14 in Pakpanang District.

The average income of Eastpakpanang District is approximately 8,749 per person per year, which is the lowest rank in Pakpanang District.

Employment

Most Pakpapang residents are fishermen, general service workers, merchants, or farmers.

Natural Resources

Most natural resources are reserved forests, mangrove forests, and other animals. Talumpuk Peninsula has loads of ark shells, crabs, shrimps, and other seafood.

Monuments

1.) Suteptaram Temple

2.) Talumpuk School

3.) Talumpuk Temple

Attraction

Talumpuk is the longest peninsula in Thailand. There are many beautiful

beaches and small islands that are full of Nakhon Sri Thammarat History. There are small harbours which are built for business and tourism. There are many mangrove forests and many animals.

Transportations

It takes approximately 17 kilometers to get from Nakhon Sri Thammarat to Talumpuk Peninsula by public road number 4013.

Talumpuk Peninsula

Talumpuk Peninsula tilts from west to east until it reachs the Gulf of Thailand. There are huge coastal and beach areas when the water decreases. Talumpuk is a great place for tourism because there is countless fresh seafood around the beach area.

Talumpuk Peninsula was hit by the worst hurricane on 25 October 2505. It was a tropical storm called Hariod, which moved 90 kilometers per hour, the water level is 5 meters. There were 8 southern provinces that affected by the storm includes: Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Chumporn, Ranong, Krabi, Pangsha, Trang, Tattalung, and Naratiwat.

The government resuscitates the nature by afforestation and prohibits hunting certain animals in the forest.

Pakpanang has a famous peninsula called Talumpuk. Talumpuk is a type of fish that live in the freshwater. Years ago, there are many Talumpuk fishes and the shape of peninsula looks “Talumpuk” which is a type of tools made from wood that people also called “Talumpuk.”

Easter Island is comprised of an area of 64 square miles and is located in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean 2000 miles west of Chile. The climate is subtropical.

ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT – Archeologists surmise that the island was originally settled by Polynesians in around 400 A.D. The Polynesians, when they arrived, found an island made up largely of sub-tropical forest of trees and woody bushes. The Easter Island palm grew to up to 80 feet tall with a 6-foot diameter and could be used to make canoes as well as yielding nuts, and sap for syrups, sugar, and wine. Underneath the trees and bushes was other vegetation such as shrubs, herbs, ferns, and grasses. They found the island was home to many varieties of seabirds and land birds as well. The surrounding oceans were loaded with fish and porpoise-dolphins. The island was a pacific paradise.

THE GOOD YEARS ON EASTER ISLAND – From 400 to 800 A.D. were the good years for the people on Easter Island. Food was plentiful and living went well. They used the large palm trees for canoes and fished offshore for porpoise-dolphins. They raised the chickens, which they had brought with them; but sea birds provided additional fowl for their diet. The natural fruit was plentiful and the sap from the palm trees yielded syrups, sugar and wine. They had sufficient wood for their dwellings and winter fires. These were good years on Easter Island. Their numbers grew, but the environment sustained them and more importantly they sustained the environment.

THE YEARS OF SPLENDOR AND DRAWDOWN – From 800 to 1300 A.D. were the years for the people on Easter Island in which they became numerous and prosperous. The islanders possessed the only written language in Oceania, the Rongorongo Script. They erected the large rock carvings, called petroglyphs or monoliths, or Moai by the islanders. These are the huge crude statues, busts of stone with long faces and long pointed noses, for which Easter Island is most noted. In a very labor-intensive effort, these huge statues were quarried, carved and then transported, by being rolled on logs, to the coastal areas for display.

During this period the population increased substantially and was approaching the highest level to be reached on the island, estimated by archeologists to be seven thousand.

But also during this period the drawdown had begun. Drawdown is when the dominant species in the ecosystem begins to uses resources faster than they can be replaced. The islanders were using up the forests, for their canoes, houses, and the transporting of their statues, much faster than they were being re-grown.

If they had realized what they were doing to their environment and how it would impact their future, and if they would have had the will to make the necessary life style adjustments, they could have prevented what followed.

THE OVERSHOOT-From 1300 to1700 AD – Overshoot is when, environmentally, the point of no return has been reached, where the depletion of resources has reached that level where they cannot be regenerated to sustainable levels.

The islander’s population continued to grow and the forests disappeared at increasing rates. With the disappearing forests, springs and steams dried up and those plants and animals for which the forests provided cover, also disappeared. Land birds, snails, and many seabirds disappeared. Even the gardens suffered as deforestation allowed the winds and rains to erode the valuable topsoil.

In the 1400’s all the large palms were cut down and the palm became extinct. The consequences were terrible. Without the large palms, the fishing fleets of canoes were depleted. By 1500, porpoise-dolphins were no longer in the Islander’s diet and they soon ran completely out of all wood.

Politically chaos set in. In the 1600’s tribal warriors displaced the centralized government. Tribal wars and cannibalism became prevalent, as humans were the largest remaining meat source.

THE CRASH – 1700 and 1800 A.D. – The crash is the inevitable meltdown of the population that follows an overshoot.

In the early 1700’s, intense tribal warfare and cannibalism drove people into the caves. When the Island was discovered on Easter, April 15, 1773, by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, he found a small population of poor, impoverished people. When Captain Cook voyaged to Easter Island in 1775 there were only 600 Islanders left.

One hundred years later, 1885, only 155 Islanders remained. In less than 500 years the population of the Islanders went from 7000 to near extinction.

THUS PLANET EARTH – Globally, overall, although specific nations and areas may vary, planet earth is in the withdrawal stage, like Easter Island was between 800 and 1300 A.D. More trees from forests, more fish from fisheries, more fresh water from aquifers, and more area from grasslands are being consumed than are being replenished. All this is complicated by problems of waste disposal, pollution, global warming and related weather complications, and a growing world population, which will go from 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 in the next 50 years.

As there was with the Easter Islanders, within the withdrawal stage, there is a window of opportunity for us recover, to bring about ways of living that will sustain the world’s resources. If we do not make that recovery, the other stages as experienced by the Easter Islanders will surely follow, as night follows day.

REFERENCES – Easter Island Internet Home Page. Easter’s End by Jared Diamond.

The wise learn from the past. The people in charge and the people with wealth (with some notable exceptions) never do and don’t really care.

I need help answering these geography questions, since I can’t seem to find them in my textbook (note: series of questions):

1) If a drainage basin of 100 mi² has 3 streams totaling 25 mi² in length, its drainage density is

A) 33,333
B) 0.25 mi/mi²
C) 4mi/mi²
D) 3

2) Which of the following surface conditions would limit the effectiveness of wind as an erosional agent?

A) Surface materials that are noncohesive.
B) Surfaces covered with little or no vegetation.
C) Surface materials that are dry.
D) Surface materials consisting of clay-sized particles.

3) Cross-stratification can be used by geologists to

A) find ventifacts
B) locate water
C) determine paleo-wind directions
D) locate fault planes

4) Approximately what percentage of the population of the United States lives in a coastal area?

A) 1/20 (I’m thinking this one, but I don’t know)
B) 1/2
C) 2/3
D) 1/4

5) Which of the following is true of worldwide sea level?

A) Changes in sea level are usually unrelated to tectonic processes
B) Over the long term, levels have been very constant
C) Changes seem to occur without any relation to global average temperatures.
D) It was about 130m (430 ft) lower 18,000 B.P., and about 10 cm lower 100 years or so ago.

6) The fact that the mixing zone in the ocean constitutes a _______ percentage of the total ocean volume means that wastes dumped into the ocean will be _______ diluted.

A) small; quickly
B) large; quickly
C) small; slowly
D) large; slowly

7) Which of the following would not be found along a tectonically active shoreline?

A) sea stacks
B) cliffs
C) barrier islands
D) terraces

Which of these statements is correct?

A) Subarctic climate regions with seasonally snow-free ground are periglacial regions.
B) Periglacial regions can sometimes feature polygonal rock formations.
C) Permanently frozen subsurfaces ground is called permafrost.
D) Periglacial regions occupy about 20% of Earth’s land area.
E) All of these are correct.

9) Which of the following is true of the snowline?

A) It decreases in elevation with increasing latitude.
B) It occurs at approximately the same elevation at all latitudes because the environmental lapse rate is approximately the same at all latitudes.
C) It increases in elevation with increasing latitude.

Out of 40 questions, these are the questions that remain. Oh, and you don’t have to answer all of them if you don’t want to. I don’t expect anyone to know these questions anyway. And for the record, these questions have nothing to do with my lectures whatsoever, since my teacher never went over this. Again, tried searching through textbook and online…can’t find a single thing, but that’s probably me. Requesting assistance…

1) 25 / 100 = 1/4 = 0.25 (B)
2) D) (by process of elimination)
3) C) determine paleo-wind directions (I think)
4) B) 1/2 (sorry, this one I do know. I found a source for you just so you can confirm it)
5) D)
6) C) small; slowly (seems logical, but a bit of a guess)
7) I don’t see why any of these wouldn’t be possible.
E) (I know a couple are)
9) A) (although there are other factors)

Sorry, I’m usually better at the geology questions in the Geography category, although the ones in Earth Science are generally more technical than what I remember, even though geology was my major for a couple years.

By MONICA RHOR, Associated Press Writer
Sat Oct 4, 1:58 PM ET

GALVESTON, Texas – The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long. This storm wasn’t like the others, the ones that left nothing worse than a harrowing tale to tell.

George Helmond, a hardy Galveston salt, watched the water rise and told a buddy: I was born on this island and I’ll die on this island.

Gail Ettenger, a free spirit who adopted the Bolivar Peninsula as her home 15 years ago, told a friend in a last phone call: I really messed up this time.

Within hours, the old salt and the free spirit were gone as the powerful Category 2 hurricane wracked the Texas Gulf Coast on Sept. 13, flattening houses, obliterating entire towns and claiming at least 33 lives.

The dead — as young as 4, as old as 79 — included lifelong Galvestonians firmly rooted on the island and transplants drawn by the quiet of coastal living.

As young as 4 years of age, died in hurricane Ike. That’s sad. Very sad. A 4 year old isn’t able to make "rational" decisions like consenting adults. People were warned well ahead of time to leave. Some people stayed out of sheer stubborness. Willful pride or ignorance. My thoughts? If only they would have heeded the warnings. If only.

omg
thats makes me so angry at that 4 year olds parents!