SC.912.L.17.8 Wildlife in the Florida Everglades has declined over centuries. Which of the following
scenarios best describes why wildlife isn't as expansive as it once was?
O Climate changes divert water from the Everglades, starving animals and introducing
predators that altered dominant food webs.
O Human development has no impact on the Everglades. Rather, natural selection has
caused invasive species to populate the land and forced the population of the
weaker native species to dwindle.
Human development has forced animal populations that were once expansive onto
a small portion of land, limiting genetic diversity and also introducing invasive
species that prey on the natural inhabitants.
Human development and climate change has created an environment where the
water flowing into the Everglades restricts the growth of animal populations
regardless of whether or not the animals are invasive.

56 moles of   lieter in chemistry

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).