Article: The City of Miami.(On the Move)

Article: Area
World of Earth Science;      621 words ... ... continuing with the modern geopolitical array of countries and cultures, have parceled their land between individuals, industries, cities, and nations. Geographers, from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, to present-day remote satellite remote sensing and geographic ...

Article: Atmospheric Inversion Layers
World of Earth Science;      554 words ... ... inversion. For instance, if a warm air mass moves over a body of water or over snow cover ... mountainous areas, especially where a city (e.g., Denver, Colorado) or industrial ... and horizontally. The mere presence of a city or factory often creates a microclimate ...

Article: Atomic Theory
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... for example, rejected Democritus' ideas because he could not accept the concept of a vacuum nor the idea that particles could move about on their own. In addition, debates between atomists and anti-atomists quickly developed religious overtones. As the ...

Article: Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australialis
World of Earth Science;      562 words ... ... ionosphere . As the charged particles interact with charged atmospheric gases in Earth's ionosphere, the electrons in the gases move to higher energy states. As the excited electrons return to their ground state, light photons are emitted. The colors of light ...

Article: Avalanche
World of Earth Science;      570 words ... ... simply as avalanches, are classified according to whether they move across existing snow layers (surface avalanche) or the ground (ground avalanche), whether they are dry or wet, whether they move through the air or over ground and snow, and whether they consist ...

Article: Aviation Physiology
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... other dissolved or "trapped" gases within the body to attempt to "bubble off" or leave the blood and tissues in an attempt to move down the concentration gradient toward a region of lower pressure. Spatial disorientation trainers demonstrate the disorientation ...

Article: Bernoulli's Principle
World of Earth Science;      574 words ... ... with them. A swift low-pressure airstream takes some molecules from this boundary layer and reduces molecular impacts on that surface of the wing across which the airstream moves faster. See also Atmospheric chemistry; Hydrostatic pressure