Year: 2015 (June 10, 2015)

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Solana Beach, California, USA

Solana Beach is an affluent city in San Diego County, California. The population was 12,867 at the 2010 census.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 square miles. 3.5 square miles of it is land and 0.1 square miles of it (2.88%) is water.

Over 12,000 residents call this small beach community their home. The Pacific Ocean is to the west; the community of Cardiff-by-the-Sea to the north, and the City of Del Mar to the south. The unincorporated village of Rancho Santa Fe is located on the east side.

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Solana Beach, California, USA

Beach

The sand deposit may extend well inland from the berm crest, where there may be evidence of one or more older crests (the storm beach) resulting from very large storm waves and beyond the influence of the normal waves. At some point the influence of the waves (even storm waves) on the material comprising the beach stops, and if the particles are small enough (sand size or smaller), winds shape the feature. Where wind is the force distributing the grains inland, the deposit behind the beach becomes a dune.

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Solana Beach, California, USA

Beach

There are several conspicuous parts to a beach that relate to the processes that form and shape it. The part mostly above water (depending upon tide), and more or less actively influenced by the waves at some point in the tide, is termed the beach berm. The berm is the deposit of material comprising the active shoreline. The berm has a crest (top) and a face – the latter being the slope leading down towards the water from the crest. At the very bottom of the face, there may be a trough, and further seaward one or more long shore bars: slightly raised, underwater embankments formed where the waves first start to break.

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Solana Beach, California, USA

Beach

Although the seashore is most commonly associated with the word beach, beaches are found by lakes and alongside large rivers.

Beach may refer to:

small systems where rock material moves onshore, offshore, or alongshore by the forces of waves and currents; or geological units of considerable size.

The former are described in detail below; the larger geological units are discussed elsewhere under bars.

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Year: 2001 (October 2, 2001)

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Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada

Mont Tremblant Statistics

A mountain to discover

Tremblant sits at 875 meters and offers a breathtaking view on the Laurentians. Its ski area covers 268 hectares and includes 96 ski trails on 4 distinct slopes for the enjoyment of skiers and snowboarders of all levels. One of the most sophisticated and powerful snowmaking systems in North America, with over 1,000 snowguns, allows us to offer impeccable snow conditions.

Mont-Tremblant

Elevation at the summit: 875 meters (2871 feet)
South Side vertical drop: 645 meters (2116 feet)
Number of trails: 96
Mountain faces: 4

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Year: 2001 (October 4, 2001)

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Montreal Biodome

Tropical Rainforest

With its large diversity of terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals this ecosystem offers a unique opportunity to study the relationships between physical environmental factors and living organisms, as well as between organisms themselves. This ecosystem has made it possible to study important ecological processes that are generally difficult to isolate in natural environments, such as changes in the physical and chemical properties of the soil, the leaf phosphorus retranslocation of some tree species, the role of soil microorganisms, the foraging activity of pollen and nectar eating bats, and the growth of a free population of giant toads.

Capybara

The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a large rodent of the genus Hydrochoerus of which the only other member is the lesser capybara (Hydrochoerus isthmius). The capybara is the largest rodent in the world. Close relatives are guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, chinchillas, and the coypu. Native to South America, the capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests and lives near bodies of water. It is a highly social species and can be found in groups as large as 100 individuals, but usually lives in groups of 10-20 individuals. The capybara is not a threatened species and is hunted for its meat, hide and also for a grease from its thick fatty skin which is used in the pharmaceutical trade.

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Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada

Saint-Sauveur is a town and municipality within the Les Pays-d’en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. It is in the administrative region of Laurentides in the Laurentian mountains, located about 60 kilometers north of Montreal.

On September 11, 2002 the city was created from the merger of the village of Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts and the parish municipality of Saint-Sauveur.

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Montreal Biodome

Sub-Antarctic Islands

Climate

The temperature is kept relatively constant, between 2ºC and 5ºC. The photoperiod (length of daylight) matches the natural cycle in the region.

Gentoo Penguin

Taxonomy

The gentoo penguin is one of three species in the genus Pygoscelis. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evidence suggests the genus split from other penguins around 38 million years ago, about 2 million years after the ancestors of the genus Aptenodytes. In turn, the Adelie penguins split off from the other members of the genus around 19 million years ago, and the chinstrap and gentoo finally diverging around 14 million years ago.

Two subspecies of this penguin are recognised: Pygoscelis papua papua and the smaller Pygoscelis papua ellsworthii.

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Montreal Biodome

Tropical Rainforest

A tribute to the world’s most beautiful forest

A plea for its protection

Although the tropical rainforests of the Americas, Africa and Asia account for only 7% of the world’s surface area, they are home to over half, and perhaps even two-thirds, of all known animal and plant species. Unfortunately, these forests are constantly shrinking, at alarming speed.

The Tropical Rainforest at the Biodôme, a reproduction of a tropical rainforest in South America, awakens visitors to the extraordinary biological diversity of these ecosystems and to their terrible vulnerability. The Biodôme’s Tropical Rainforest, measuring 2,600 m² and populated by thousands of plants and animals, is our largest ecosystem.

Crocodile

Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. A broader sense of the term crocodile, Crocodylidae that includes Tomistoma, is not used in this article. The term crocodile here applies only to the species within the subfamily of Crocodylinae. The term is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes Tomistoma, the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharials (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha.

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Montreal Biodome

Sub-Antarctic Islands

To the south of South America is an ice-covered continent: the Antarctic.

Landscape

The landscape evokes the shore of a volcanic island lying between the Antarctic peninsula and the tip of South America. Basalt is the main rock formation.

Gentoo Penguin

The long-tailed gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is a penguin species in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely associated with the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus). The first scientific description was made in 1781 by Johann Reinhold Forster with a reference point of the Falkland Islands. They call in a variety of ways, but the most frequently heard is a loud trumpeting which is emitted with its head thrown back.

The application of gentoo to the penguin is unclear. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that gentoo used to be an Anglo-Indian term used as early as 1638 to distinguish Hindus in India from Muslims. The English term may have originated from the Portuguese gentio (compare “gentile”). In the 20th century the term came to be regarded as derogatory.

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