... open to contributions from other sources subject
to the agreement of or approval by the Parties.
6. The Parties may, where necessary, mobilise additional resources
required for the implementation ...
Parties concerned.
4. The Parties should manage and use their natural resources,
including forest and land resources, in an ecologically sound and
sustainable manner.
5. The Parties...
... - HELPING OUR PLANET EARTH
What to do:
1. Write a list of planet items for sale on newsprint or on
the board. Encourage students to add some items to
the list. Ask: ‘What are items of the earth- ... activity
encourages participants to publicly
express their attitudes and values
towards the environment in an
enjoyable way.
Activity- Planet for Sale!
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... additional civic skills.
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Teachers Guide HOPE - HELPING OUR PLANET EARTH
Welcome
Welcome to the first edition of the HOPE
(Helping Our Planet Earth) Teachers Guide.
This guide has practical ... Sustainability 9
5. Living in Our World 29
6. A Glimpse of Nature 48
7. Waste Not, Want Not 69
8. Water for Life 86
9. Fiji Fast Facts! 108
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... that studies the Earth s surface. It studies what
makes the different shapes and colors of the Earth the ground, rocks, and
water, what does and does not grow.
If you look at the Earth as a geographer ... the planet Earth. This is because
from space our world looks like a big
round marble, all blue with swirling
white streaks of clouds.
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Planet...
... and that only a
handful of countries can play a significant role in this endeavor; this does not rule out the
Planet Earth 2011 – Global Warming Challenges and Opportunities for Policy and ... high permeability fractures and boreholes, this mechanism is more
Planet Earth 2011 – Global Warming Challenges and Opportunities for Policy a...
... their open water area increased
despite the degradation of their surroundings.
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Remote Sensing of Planet Earth
Remote Sensing of Planet Earth
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contrast in NIR bands to many other surface ... parameters of distribution of spectral values for
example). This new approach was entitled "Iterative Region Growing Using Semantics" or
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Remote Sensing of...
... north
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Earth was created from pieces of dust
and rubble orbiting the young star
that became the Sun. These ... from the craters
of giant volcanoes
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Ocean plates pull...
... to 250 macaques
use the hot pools
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KRAKATAU
One of hundreds of volcanoes
that form the islands of Indonesia, ... after the Kobe earthquake of 1995.
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Rocks and minerals
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... have a wet climate.
Sand laid down on the
slope of an ancient dune
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INTERPRETATION
Most fossils are just ...
metamorphic rocks. These may then
partially melt to produce magma that
becomes granite.
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... whole
weather machine of our planet.
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Water vapor evaporating from the oceans forms clouds that are carried over
the land by wind. More clouds bui...
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blow fr
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are called easte
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lies
Rain falls in a broad
column over
Montana
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PREVAILING WINDS
Intense heat in the tropics makes air rise near...
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The last 80 0 million years have seen a spectacular diversication of
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MARITIME
In the temperate regions, weather
systems move east from the oceans
over the land. This means that the
western fr...
... DESERT
Lying at the heart of southern Africa, the Kalahari is a
mixture of scorpion-infested desert with long sand
dunes, and tree-dotted dry grasslands. The
region contains the Okavango Delta, the
remains ... all.
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BRAZILIAN CERRADO
The forests of Amazoni...