Western Hemisphere

East vs. West: The Great Hemispheric Clash The Eastern and Western hemispheres are unique in their own ways, the individualities between the two regions is explained by the isolation the Atlantic ocean gave them. The hemispheres had no idea of the others existence until the late 15th century. The Eastern hemisphere had resources at their disposal to help travel vast regions. Horses and camels enabled them to transport heavy materials, which help build kingdoms and empires. The Western Hemisphere went without this vital commodity, adapted to their environment in different less advanced ways. The Eastern hemisphere used horses and camels to establish trade networks throughout the EuroAsian region and encountered new areas, cultures, and most…

Map of the Western Hemisphere Say goodbye to the old age and hello to a new era… Jan van der Straet in his title plate engraving from his print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times), designed around the 1850s, echos those words through his striking depiction of an evolving world. Map of the Western Hemisphere is one of nineteen plates in the series that was published in Antwerp by Philips Galle in his 1600 edition of Americae Retectio, a notable historical picture atlas.…

Hurricane Fran started its development on August 23 in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Edouard caused the then depression to take a north to north-westward track and eventually intensify into Tropical Storm Fran on the 27th of the same month. Fran became a hurricane on August 29th but weakened back to a tropical storm the very next day. By the 31st Fran rapidly turned back into a hurricane. Fran’s roots come from a tropical wave, an atmospheric trough with an elongated area of low air…

Hurricane Joaquin was a powerful hurricane that took out several districts of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, parts of the Greater Antilles, and Bermuda. Many buildings have been destroyed, and many lives have been lost. Today I am going to tell you what hurricanes are, when they happen, how big they can get, how Joaquin compares, and what we can do to prepare for them. What are Hurricanes? Hurricanes are large, swirling storms. They produce winds of up to 74 mph or higher. They usually…

To see the similarities and differences between wind patterns in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres alongside with explaining the major wind belts. Material: • Map of North America with longitude and latitude • Drawing compass Procedure: 1. View the map from the lab given. The map represents the barometric pressures at 5000 feet in North America on a precise day in February. 2. Use the Web to get another map of North America that covers the same approximate area shown in the map given in the…

A person who speaks fluently and well-developed vocabulary tends to be more reliable. The non-verbal disorder is a huge inadequate awareness that caused these difficulties for students at school. Students who have trouble speaking their language are often labeled as “emotionally disturbed or behavior problems” because of their unexpected behavior. Students with weakened abilities to organize visual-spatial field or accommodate to new literature may be shown as a genetic disorder. Students who…

brain with the other parts of the body. The brain directs the things we choose to do (like walking and talking) and the things our body does without thinking (like breathing). The brain is also in charge of our senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), memory, emotions, and personality. The three major parts of the brain control different activities: a. Cerebrum - The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain. It is at the top of the brain. It uses information from our senses to tell us…

Basic Information: The Stenotomus chrysops, commonly known as Scup, are a heavily fished saltwater species. Despite their lean and flakey bone-filled flesh, the scup has been a part of the North American east coast diet since colonial times. In fact, the population of the scup was fished to the edge in the 1990s- but fully recovered its numbers 30-fold by 2009 thanks to seasonal restrictions. Like all other life forms on the planet, the scup is more than a fresh catch at the local fish market.…

of the human brain, specifically the study of both the right and left hemispheres was conducted by Roger W. Sperry who is widely considered the father of this field, and Michael Gazzaniga. It is their specific research into patients who have had their Corpus Callosum removed, due to their suffering constant seizures, and how this severation…

frequent, and wind is often mild (Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, 2013). The air becomes cooler as it ascends closer to the tropopause at which, the air forks toward both the north and south poles. Applying the rotation of the Earth to the air under controlled circumstances – a constant surface temperature and no tilt; viola, Hadley’s theory gave westerly movement to the air and once again had them converging at the equator. What Hadley’s theory missed, however, was how far…