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Energy Movement in Ecosystems: Trophic & Energy Pyramid

Organisms can be classified into trophic (feeding) levels depending on how they get their energy. Organisms that get their energy from nonliving sources (sun, organic matter) are called autotrophs (producers) and make up the 1st trophic level. Organisms that get their energy from other living things are called heterotrophs (consumers). Heterotrophs that eat autotrophs make…

The Outer Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto & Charon

Our solar system is divided into two sections, the first section being the inner planets consisting of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The inner planets have rocky crusts, dense mantle layers, and very dense cores. The second section consists of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Except for Pluto, the outer planets are gaseous with…

Java Syntax Reference sheet

Comments Documentation Comment Statement Comments /** * */ E.g., /**  This is a sample comment *     that would span *     multiple lines   */ // // This is a sample single line comment Primitive data Type int E.g., int sumOfNumbers; double E.g, double average; char E.g., char singleChar; boolean E.g., boolean isBig; Declaring Variables <Visibility>  <type> …

Edmund Burke & The Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish political thinker, and philosopher was the chief framer of conservatism.  His most influential work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, opposed the core values of his contemporary revolutionaries and predicted that the French Revolution would cause anarchy and bring about terror. Reflections, published in 1790, was written in the wake of…