Reforestation is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands that have been depleted, usually through deforestation. Reforestation can be used to rectify or improve the quality of human life by soaking up pollution and dust from the air, rebuild natural habitats and ecosystems, mitigate global warming since forests facilitate bio sequestration of atmospheric carbon ...
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Seafloor spreading is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics. When oceanic plates diverge, tensional stress causes fractures to occur in the lithosphere.
The motivating force for seafloor ...
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The abbreviation for Arizona is AZ. Arizona is a southwestern U.S. state which is best known for the Grand Canyon, the mile-deep chasm carved by the Colorado River. Flagstaff, a ponderosa pine–covered mountain town, is a major gateway to the Grand Canyon. Other natural sites include Saguaro National Park, protecting cactus-filled Sonoran Desert landscape.
Tucson is University of ...
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The absolute coordinates for Eiffel Tower’s location are 48.8584° N, 2.2945° E. Eiffel tower remains a popular tourist destination to this day. The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
The tower is 324 meters (1,063 ft.) tall, about ...
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It is called prime meridian. A prime meridian is a meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographical coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. Together, a prime meridian and its antemeridian (the 180th meridian in a 360°-system) form a great circle.
This great circle divides the sphere, e.g., the Earth, into two hemispheres. If one uses directions of East and ...
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The coordinates for Mount Everest’s absolute location are 27.9878° N, 86.9250° E. Mount Everest, also known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain. Its peak is 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) above sea level. Mount Everest is in the Mahalangur Range.
The international border between China (Tibet Autonomous Region) and Nepal runs ...
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The biggest city in Andorra, other than its capital, is Escaldes-Engordany. Escaldes-Engordany is the second most populated parish in Andorra. Those who wish to live in Escaldes-Engordany opt for a booming and modern living environment. The existence of the hot springs has led this parish to make major investments in the spa tourism sector. Located in a large, sweeping valley, ...
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The biggest country in the world is Russia. Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanized than the eastern; about 77% of the population live in European ...
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The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It is in an endorheic basin (a basin without outflows) located between Europe and Asia.
It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the west, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast. ...
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Vienna is Austria's primary capital city, with a population of about 1.8 million (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of Austria's population), and its cultural, economic, and political center. It is the 7th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was the largest German-speaking city in the ...
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