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glacird
Title: glacird
Category: Literature / English
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glacird
Topic 1 Glaciers
1.What is a Glacier?
A glacier is a big moving mass of ice; it is formed in high mountains or high latitudes where the amount of snowfall is higher than the melting rate of snow.
2. How do glaciers differ from ice shelves, icebergs and sea ice?
Glaciers are huge and they also have a granular structure. Glaciers change the shape and the land though they’re slow but significant movement. Ice shelves are …showed first 75 words of 889 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 889 total…actually comprised of living cyanobacteria that grow on top of each other at the rate of 1mm a year.
3. What role did cyanobacteria have in the formation of the atmosphere, as we know it?
The oxygen that we depend on was produced by cyanobateria. It was created during the Archaena and Proterozoic era. Before cyanobacteria the atmosphere was different, and it wasn’t suitable for the present time.
www.lifeintheuniverse.com/stroma.html
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