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- Glaciology (3787 bytes)
5: The word ''glacier'' is derived from the [[Latin]] ''glacies'', meaning ice ...
9: ...period of time; glaciers move very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glacier...
11: ...ies glaciers. A glacial geologist studies glacial deposits and glacial erosive features on the landsca...
15: Glaciers can be identified by their geometry and the relationship to ...
18: - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...on|privatized]] its economy in the past three decades. Politically, it remains a one-party [[authorit...
4: ...rsial with the ROC considering itself an [[independent state]]. See '''[[China]]''' and [[Political st...
6: ...d China]]" is sometimes used to denote the area under the PRC's rule, usually excluding the two [[Spec...
13: ...[Fujian]]. On [[October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedong]] declared the People's Republic of China, establishin...
15: ...s may also doubt statistics or accounts given for death tolls or other damages incurred by Mao's campa... - Erosion (6998 bytes)
4: ...an activities. Some of those activities include [[deforestation]], [[overgrazing]] and road or trail b...
6: ...ing reservoirs with [[sediment]], reducing [[Soil degradation|soil fertility]] and [[water quality]].
11: ...precipitation and are on gentle slopes tend to erode less.
19: ...lized mechanical trauma as, for example, by suspended abrasive particles within a moving fluid. Erosi...
24: ...ever, landslides can be classified in a much more detailed way that reflects the mechanisms responsibl... - Cockroach (5997 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = '''Blattodea'''}}
19: ...r. When infesting buildings, cockroaches are considered [[pest]]s.
22: ...e in close association with human dwellings and widely found around garbage or in the kitchen.
26: ...hat continue inflating themselves with air and harden and darken within about four hours. Their transi...
28: ...40 eggs. She drops the capsule prior to hatching. Development from eggs to adults takes 3-4 months. Co... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...ant center of commerce (especially the [[spice trade]]) and [[art]] in the [[Renaissance]].
6: ... Its strategic position at head of the Adriatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invuln...
8: ... Venice were laid: the [[Venetian Arsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of ...
10: ...enetian sovereignty when it was threatened by invaders.
12: ...stablished the [[Latin Empire]]. Considerable plunder was brought back to Venice, including the [[Mark... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Richard M. Nixon
4: | order=37th President
7: | preceded=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
8: | succeeded=[[Gerald R. Ford]]
11: | dead=dead - Helium (36603 bytes)
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26: | [[Density]]
35: | 0.95 [[Kelvin|K]] (-272.2 °[[Celsius|C]])
38: | 4.22 [[Kelvin|K]] (-268.93 °[[Celsius|C]]) - Thorium (11307 bytes)
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24: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
41: | [[van der Waals radius]]
50: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - Chiton (3478 bytes)
1: ... or in rocks, but some species have been found as deep as 4000 meters. Individual plates are sometimes...
4: ... coated with magnetite, a ferrous mineral that hardens the teeth. The radula is used to scrape microsc...
11: ...were first studied by Linnaeus in 1758. Since his description of the first four species, chitons have ...
14: ...] by scraping the rocky substrate with their well-developed radula. Some species have an enlarged ante...
16: Predators include [[seagull]]s, [[seastar]]s, [[crab]]s, [[fish]]es... - Reptile (14659 bytes)
10: ...bdivision | color = light blue | plural_taxon = Orders}}
14: Suborder [[Lizard|Sauria]] - Lizards<br/>
15: Suborder [[Snake|Serpentes]] - Snakes<br/>
17: Superorder [[Dinosaur|Dinosauria]]<br/>
23: ...membrane]]). Today they are represented by four orders: - Cockroaches (5827 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = '''Blattodea'''}}
19: ...r. When infesting buildings, cockroaches are considered [[pest]]s.
22: ...e in close association with human dwellings and widely found around garbage or in the kitchen.
26: ...hat continue inflating themselves with air and harden and darken within about four hours. Their transi...
28: ...40 eggs. She drops the capsule prior to hatching. Development from eggs to adults takes 3-4 months. Co... - Watergate (19196 bytes)
1: ...onal crisis]] that led to the resignation of President [[Richard Nixon]].
7: ...ested for breaking into the headquarters of the [[Democratic National Committee]]. The men had broken ...
9: ...n, most Americans initially believed that no President with Nixon's advantage in the polls would be so...
11: ... the FBI in the early 1970s, revealed that he was Deep Throat — a claim later confirmed by Woodw...
15: ...caused the collapse of Ellsberg's trial due to evident government misconduct. - Weed control (16617 bytes)
1: ...herbicide]]s. Prevention of weeds from growing is desirable, but often difficult to achieve, due to th...
5: ...all shift in perspective, we can often change our definition to ''a plant whose virtues have not yet b...
6: ...will quickly return [[cultivated]] land to a [[wilderness]] state.
8: ...n, for they are slow to germinate and produce slender, upright stems. Quick growing, broad-leafed weed...
13: ...quivalent to almost 4 percent per day. So that by delaying weeding for another fortnight, the yield wa...
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