Ocean waves peaked at 100 feet, the height of 10-story buildings. Waves 30 feet high battered the New England coast, destroying 200 homes. Nine people died, including the six-man crew of a swordfish boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts. (CNN.com) Not only was a book wrote about this event, they later made a movie about too. But in spite of such amazing events in history caused by
Bald Eagles: Learning their Majesty The bald eagles many unique attributes proves its superiority, majesty and power. What truly catches our eyes about the eagle? The eagle is believed to have been here before European settlers first sailed to America's shores, bald eagles may have numbered half a million. They existed along the Atlantic from Labrador to the tip of south Florida, and along the Pacific from Baja California to Alaska. They inhabited every large river and concentration of lakes within North America.
The pots were about 3 feet 6 inches and contained two to three dozen good size crayfish weighing about two several pounds. The men said it was about one hundred and fifteen to three hundred feet long. Another eyewitness saw a great white shark the size of a tractor trailer had attacked a person. Many sharks have been clocked out as fast as 1.5 miles and the mega shark could probably swim in a longer distance since this is a bigger shark. Two percent of the ocean has been overlooked by people ant it leaves ninety-eight percent of the ocean for the megladon can swim.
The size of the Grampians national park is 167,000 hectares. 4. Today's Grampians mountain range lay under shallow seas millions of years ago. Over the centuries, heat and pressure caused the solidification of the sandy bottom into great slabs of sandstone which, disturbed by tectonic forces, were forced upwards to become the jagged peaks we see today in Grampians National Park. 5.
Human Impacts on the Great Barrier Reef-Australia Introduction The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef in the world, located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia the reef stretches over 2,300km. In total the reef covers over 300,000 square kilometres in area and includes over 2,900 reefs, and around 940 islands and cays. It is home to more than 1,500 species of fish, 411 types of hard coral, one-third of the world’s soft corals, 134 species of sharks and rays, six of the world’s seven species of threatened marine turtles, and more than 30 species of marine mammals, including the vulnerable dugong. Human Activities Affecting the Reef The balanced ecology of the Great Barrier Reef is one that is vulnerable to even the slightest human influence. Coral reefs require light, oxygen, clear water, special nutrients, stable temperatures and salt content to survive.
A. Anchorage –the biggest city in Alaska, visit the Alaska ZOO B. The Wrangell – Saint Elias National Park –ten active volcanoes can be found in here, along with majorities of Alaska’s glaciers C. Prince William Sound- boat rides, watching marine mammals and eagles in natural habitat III. Alaska’s Southwest attracts for its wildlife watching and largest
England covers over 50,000 square miles (130 439 square kilometres) and is the largest of the countries comprising the island of Britain, covering about two-thirds of the island. No place in England is more than 75 miles (120 km) from the sea. The landscape is determined mainly by the different types of rock underlying it. In the south, chalk has produced the gently rolling hills of the Downs, while hard granite is the basis for the mountains of the north and the
It is, among hammerheads, the largest type. The great hammerhead shark is arguably one of the most fascinating species for various reasons. The great hammerhead is a shark, so it lives throughout the world’s oceans. They are found close inshore, as well as offshore in depths of between one and three hundred meters. More commonly, however, they are found close to shore.
Zach Torres Oceanography T/TH 11-15-10 Great White Shark For many years there has been one animal that has struck fear in everyone that goes into the ocean. That animal is the Great White Shark. It has been known to exceed 20 feet in length, although most are about 5 meters long and weigh somewhere between 4000 and 5000 pounds. They live in almost all coastal areas that have a water temperature that stay between about 50 and 75 degrees. Perhaps the most well known place to see great whites is Dyer Island, which is off the coast of South Africa.
There are also coral reefs off the coast of Florida, USA, to the Caribbean, and down to Brazil. The Great Barrier Reef (off the coast of NE Australia) is the largest coral reef in the world. It is over 1,257 miles (2000 km) long. Types of Reefs: The different types of reefs include: Fringing reefs are reefs that form along a coastline. They grow on the continental shelf in shallow water.