Botany Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge...
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British Columbia British Columbia is the third largest Canadian provinces, both in area and popula...
Raising Oysters In the oysters were raised in much the same way as dirt farmers raised tomatoes- b...
Oil Refining An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petr...
Plankton Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals ...
The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only...
Topaz Topaz is a hard, transparent mineral. It is a compound of aluminum, silica, and fluorine. Ge...
Icebergs Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never se...
Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the...
Cohesion-tension Theory Atmospheric pressure can support a column of water up to 10 meters high. B...
Coal-fired power plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 c...
American black bears American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the...
The source of Energy A summary of the physical and chemical nature of life must begin, not on the ...
Statistics There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical meth...
Obtaining Fresh water from icebergs The concept of obtaining fresh water from icebergs that are to...