GENR-91: Short Answers

Although there are many causes of the Dust Bowl the three most significant causes were the drought, removal of grass and the overproduction of crops in the Great Plains. The drought greatly dried out the land in the Great Plains. Removal of grass was also crucial during World War I because of the demand for wheat, but it was not during the Dust Bowl. By removing the grass it created much more room for storms to pick up the dirt and destroy

Diseases, such as smallpox, decimated Indian population and allowing Europeans to easily conquer the natives. Since so many people died, Dobyns calculated that the population of the west was actually 112 million in 1491, more than Europe at the time. He estimated that after 130 years after contact with Europeans, the Native American population decreased by 95 percent. Some criticized Dobyns’s publishing's as politically driven. The critics called Dobyn out for supporting the American hate crowd.

John Daniel Barry, an American novelist, once said, “Society is the mother of us all.” The article “What Unites These States?” by Phillip Caputo, the “Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address” given by President Bill Clinton, and “The Gettysburg Address” speech spoken by Abraham Lincoln all have one thing in common. The works all support the idea that the unity of men is more powerful than individualism. Society can get more work done in a timely manner than an individual during a crisis. Caputo writes, “A coordinator at the volunteer center told us that more than 14,000 people from every state in the union pitched in.”

This one involved a “Japanese fire balloon.” Hoping to set the forests of North America on fire, the Japanese launched several thousand balloons equipped with incendiary bombs aloft from their homeland into the prevailing west to east jet stream. During 1945, the peak of activity, hundreds of balloons reached the western regions of Canada and the United States.29 Since the providence of nature endowed the western forests of North America with abundant snow and rain that year, the Japanese fire balloons did little

The articles "The Great Bird Poop Disaster" and "How to Solve the Problem of Bird Poop," both by Anna Starecheski, explain major problems that birds cause, and some small solutions that have been suggested to lower the impacts that birds have on cities. Bird poop has caused unbelievable amounts of damage to cities in the past, and it is one of the major problems that comes from large amounts of birds. Each year about 1.1 billion dollars are spent on damages caused from bird poop in the United States. In 2011 the roof a gas station completely collapsed because there was 12 inches of poop resting on top (The Great Bird Poop Disaster). Although all over the country there may not be this drastic of need for change, it proves that bird poop is a

Easterbrook brings traffic accidents in contrast to the events of the tragedy of September eleventh, 2001 (A2). The number of deaths on 9/11: 3000, compared to the “42,642 traffic deaths in 2006” (Easterbrook A2). Easterbrook writes that in 2006 alone, 1.2 million people were killed on roads all around the world, compared to “100,000 dead as a result of combat” (A2). This huge comparison shows the huge deaths from

Bees in Decline Honey bees visit around 50-100 different flowers in one collection trip for honey; What would happen if millions of hives are declining in populations? The decline in bees is a serious problem that could cause the beautiful spring colors to turn dark and saturated without colors. This epidemic is worldwide, and could be a serious problem, more than one third of what goes on your plate is made with products that have been pollinated by bees (The Bees in). The bees have been declining in most of Europe because of the rough cold winters they have had the past years dropping their populations by almost 53%, as well as pesticides dropping the populations and killing of the entirety of a single hive ().

The quote states “In the last 10-16 years, 1.5 people on average gets killed yearly by captive reptile, 1 by captive cat, 0.81 by captive elephant, 0.125 by captive bear and 0 by captive nonhuman primate,” reports Zuzana Kuhol, a REXANO o-founder “As a comparison, 45,000 people died each year in traffic accidents, 47 from lightning and 1,600 by falling down stairs” (REXANO). However, even though it is rare, it still happens and you can’t predict when it will attack. The quote claims “Exotic animals are wild animals with wild animal instincts, even when born in captivity. A wild animal is never 100 percent predictable.

The dust storms affected Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico. The storm affected those states because the cold air dropped the storms South. On April 14, 1935 there was the biggest dust storm known to mankind. People even made it a holiday, it's called “Black Sunday,” because of the big storm. After one whole decade the years of terror finally stopped.

Honey Bee Homicide Imagine a world without colors, flowers, or even air. This is a world without bees, which at the current rate, it will not be long until this description fits our planet. The endangerment of bees has many driving factors; the principal components being the increase of parasitic mites, the decrease of careers as beekeepers, the heightened use of pesticides, and the loss of biodiversity in honey bee habitats. For instance, two invasive species of mites expanded to North America twenty years ago, varroa and tracheal mites, which are responsible for a large portion of the honeybee deaths.

At this time it is estimated that the Emerald Ash Borer is responsible for killing over one million ash trees. Ash trees are very abundant. Some forests are over half ash trees. With the Emerald Ash Borer moving as quickly as it does and killing trees so fast this will lead to a huge shortage of ash trees. All twenty-two species of ash trees are targeted by the beetles.

Hunting, coupled with the extensive deforestation of their habitat for farm ground, severely crippled the wood ducks population. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act allowed for the complete protection of the wood duck and placed limits on hunting the species (Bellrose 1976). Protection from hunters, conservation of remaining habitat, and the development of the wood duck nest box, led to one of the best comeback stories in North American wildlife history. By 1941, 14 states allowed the take of 1 wood duck per hunter, and by the mid 1960s, wood ducks ranked second or third in the bags of hunters from the Mississippi and

The unexplained loss and conditions of the bees are very similar to our current day Colony Collapse Disorder, but there is no solid proof to confirm this. In Cache Valley in Utah, 1903, 2,000 colonies of bees were lost to an unknown “disappearing disease” and more recently, in 1995-96, bee keepers in Pennsylvania lost 53% of their bee populations without even knowing the cause (ARS: Honey Bees and Colony Collapse

In the summer of 2012, Needles broke the all time record for hot rain when the town was bombarded with scorching 115 degree rain. A lightening storm followed setting crops on fire. People thought that Hell had struck their town. +towns +America +unusual-names +memorable +unique Smackover, Arkansas Even though oil is the main driving force behind Smackover 's economy, the residents of this town of less than 2,000 owe its name to the timber industry.

Maryland is considered to be the state with the highest rate of death due to smog pollution. MIT study reported that 113 out of 10 000 people die prematurely in the city of Baltimore because of emissions from cars, trucks, industrial smokestacks, trains, boats and others. The journalist Katie Andries stated: “Of every 100,000 residents in the city, the study found that 130 were likely to die prematurely each year of causes related to air pollution, more than in New York City, Los Angeles, and the entire Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s study also shown that emissions in Frederick, Reisterstown, and Montgomery Village are worse than in