Self-tutoring about Canadian geography: the tutor continues from yesterday’s post about the Annapolis Valley. In yesterday’s post, I mention farms near mountain top in the Annapolis Valley. North Mountain and South Mountain, which encase the Valley, have elevation around 200m. …
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Self-tutoring about US geography: the tutor looks up the the term run. In some US place names, you might hear the word Run. Bull Run comes to mind, for instance. What is a run? Apparently, run can mean creek or …
Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor mentions the fact that leopards live in Europe. In yesterday’s post I mention that the Republic of Georgia’s northern border is often described as the border between Europe and Asia, yet even so, Georgia considers …
Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor researches the Euro-Asian border. According to the CIA World Factbook, Georgia is in Asia, yet identifies as European. Some define the Euro-Asian border, in fact, as Georgia’s northern border, in the Caucasus Mountains. From that …
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Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor notices an article about percent world population now living in urban settings. Apparently, in 1960, the world was 2:1 rural to urban. As I understood, when I was a kid, most people on Earth lived …
Self-tutoring about Canadian geography: the tutor begins about a famous, yet remote, part of his home province. Sable Island, from the French sable, meaning sand, is a connected arc of sand dunes that form an island about 175 km off …
Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor wonders if crocodiles formerly lived in Israel. Apparently, crocodiles inhabited the Kebara swamps, Israel, into the early 1900s. Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com en.parks.org.il
Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor inquires about the meaning of wadi. wadi (noun): a stream bed that is usually dry but carries water during a rainy period. The term wadi is specific to the Middle East and North Africa. Source: …
Self-tutoring about geology: the tutor mentions the surprising depth of the Gulf of Aqaba, and its reason. Plate tectonics describes the floating masses of rock that constitute the Earth’s crust and drift across the magma beneath. Most plates roughly correspond …
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Self-tutoring about plant lore: the tutor researches four-leaf clovers. The rarity of the four-leaf clover is around 1:10000, research suggests. I’ve never found a four-leaf clover. However, one summer when I was a kid, one of my friends found one, …