Water waste or wasting water is any water that has been affected by human use. Wasting of water means causing or permitting discharge of water without any practical purpose. Water is used in many combinations of domestic, industrial, commercial or agricultural activities. Wastewater refers to all effluent from household, commercial establishments and institutions, hospitals, industries […]
Cirrus clouds are composed of ice crystals that originate from the freezing of supercooled water droplets. All high clouds are a type of cirrus, a common cloud that can be seen at any time of the year. Cirrus look like long, thin and wispy white streamers high in the sky, they look thin because they […]
A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake. A coastline is all the places along the continents where the land meet the oceans. They include the beaches, caves, estuaries, cliffs and so […]
Water is the important part of our day to day lives, plants and animals too. It plays a major role in the daily work activity such as bathing, washing dishes and clothes. Without water, we cannot live. It is the most common liquid on earth. Pure water has no smell, taste or color. Lakes, oceans, […]
A plateau is the raised land with a flat top and steep slope on at least one side. Plateau can is formed by the erosion of surrounding areas by rivers, flooding, and glacier activity. An uplift of land can occur from the pressure of a large magma chamber layers of rock. It is called a […]
Freshwater is the natural water occurring on earth’s surface in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, ponds, lakes, rivers and underground water. Access to clean water is important but also limiting. All freshwater habitats are dominated by the physical properties of water. The molecule is made up of a single oxygen atom with hydrogen. The […]
Cumulus clouds are puffy clouds that sometimes look like a piece of floating cotton. Cumulus clouds produce little or no precipitation but they can grow into the precipitation bearing cumulonimbus clouds. Cumulonimbus clouds are characterized by a flat and anvil-like top caused by the wind shear or inversion near the tropopause. They do not get […]
Global warming is one symptom of the much larger problem of human-caused climate change Global warming refers only to the Earth’s rising surface temperature, while climate change includes warming and the side effects of warming like melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, or more frequent. Global warming is also termed as climate change. Global warming is the […]
Tornadoes are the most violent of all atmospheric storms. The storms that strike as a powerful rotating mixture of wind and thunderstorm clouds, extending from the clouds to the ground in a funnel shape. As the wind is invisible, it is hard to see a tornado unless it forms a condensation funnel made up of […]
Special clouds are Mammatus clouds which are actually altocumulus, cirrus, cumulonimbus or other types of clouds that have a pouch like shapes hanging out to the bottoms. In these cases, clouds may form or grow as a consequence of certain, often localized generating factors. Orographic clouds get their shape from mountains or hills that force […]