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A 5 page research paper that discuses the fact that the entire world faces an environmental crisis of monumental proportions in the form of global warming and the climatic change that it entails. The following discussion examines various aspects of this crisis and how it impacts specific environments, i.e., deserts and glaciers. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Compare and contrast the geological features of a desert landscape and a glacial landscape: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) defines a "desert," as "arid land with meager rainfall that
supports only sparse vegetation and a limited population of people and animals" (USGS, 2001). Characterized by heat and sand, the official classification of "desert" is typically based on some "some
combination of the number of days of rainfall, the total amount of annual rainfall, temperature, (and) humidity" (USGS, 2001). The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) indicates
that a glacier is an accumulation of snow and ice that never completely melts in the summer (NSIDC, 2009). Glacier formation requires an extended period of time and specific climatic
conditions that are generally found at high altitudes and high latitudes in regions in which there is "high snowfall in winter and tool temperatures in summer" (NSICD, 2009). Glaciers depend
on precipitation to replace what the bulk that is lost in summer due to runoff, and this usually takes the form of "snowfall, freezing rain, avalanches or wind-drifted snow" (NSIDC,
2009). As this indicates, deserts and glaciers have similarities in that they are both inhospitable environments for human, animals or vegetation. They are both environments in which there are
extremes of temperature and in which wind is instrumental in forming the landscape, i.e., by shaping dunes and snow drifts. Furthermore, both of these environments are being deeply changed and
affected by global warming and its subsequent effect of global climate change. The worlds glaciers are disappearing. Arctic and Antarctic ice is breaking off and melting. In the
Arctic, the ice has melted to such a degree that, in winter, the Northwest Passage sought by sixteenth and seventeenth century European explorers around North America is finally possible. As
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