They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you."
Where do the Okavango Delta flood waters come from? The Okavango Delta is a conundrum – a unique wetland system surviving on the sands of the vast Kalahari Desert inBotswana. The source of the Okavango Delta flood actually lies in the extremely wet highlands of Angola, some 500km to the ...
Why is it that when water is in a bucket and spinning around in a circular motion and then upside down the water in the bucket does not move or spill? Why do people sink in water? Why aren't high ocean tides exactly 12 hours apart? Why infinite flow of ...
Growing up in landlocked Sichuan province, the 80-year-old had never seen the ocean before. "Standing at the water’s edge, she was a little frightened as she watched the tide come up," Zhang recalls. So my son, who’d visited the beach at Qingdao before, took her hand. ...
the mammal’s bones indicate that it had webbed feet and used its limbs, rather than its tail and spine, to move through the water. Pinnipeds swim by pushing themselves through the water with highly modified arms and legs instead of undulating their backbones as whales and...
Why is there no thermocline in polar waters? Why is magnetic declination important? Why is Antarctica dry? How does the revolution of the earth cause seasons? Why are there circumpolar vortices around the poles? Why do hurricanes initially only form in the tropics? a) warmer weather b) strong...
The waters around Nunavut are particularly uncertain due to strong seasonality, complex water mass structure [19], and large areas of the Canadian Arctic seafloor that have not yet been surveyed fully [20]. As sea ice melts, open water allows dense ice floes to drift through narrow Arctic ...
Gone were the days of looking out for glassy, flat waters. Vevere was now on the hunt for the biggest waves she could find. “In those last eight years, I try to really be out of Latvia to surf as much as possible, in the ocean,” Vevere, now 39, said. “In theBaltic S...
How do the subtropical anticyclones influence the salinity of surface ocean waters? How does less ice cove 1.intermediate waters is caused by? 2.deep water currents are important because? 3. water that sinks are? 4.water that ri...