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Nautical Sciences

Antarctic seas, 198-200; fishing in, 199; millerals of, 199; Celsius temperature scale, 250; converting to Fahrenheit,
ports and bases, 199-200; strategic geography, 200 250
Apollo spacecraft, missions to the Moon, 286, 288-90 cepheid stars, 315, 317
aquaculture, 230-31 Charon, satellite, 309
Arctic Ocean: fishing in, 189; millerals of, 188-89; ports and Clementine spacecraft, 290
bases, 189-90; strategic geography, 190 clouds: classification of, 253-56; at sea, 256-57
Aristotle, 320 comets, 311-12, 313
asteroids, 311, 343 Coriolis effect, 218, 260
astronomical unit, 293 Cuba, 187-88. See also Castro, Fidel; Guantanamo naval
astronomy, 278-317; balloon observations in, 284; base
radiotelescope observations in, 282-83; spacecraft currents. See oceans
observations in, 284-86; telescope observations in)" 280-
82. See also telescopes Danish straits, 185
Atlantic Ocean: fishing in, 183; minerals of, 183; ports and density,324
bases, 183-85; strategic geography, 185-86 Desert Shield/Desert Storm, operations, 196
ahnosphere: composition of, 245-47; of Earth, 245-77; Doppler shift, 338, 343
exosphere, 247; ionosphere, 247, 344; pressure, 247-49;
temperatnre, 249-51; tropopause, 246; troposphere, 245; Earth: crust of, 202-5; formation of, 202; geological plates
stratosphere, 246; weather, 249-50, 257-58, 263-77; of, 203-4; magnetosphere, 295, 344; relief of, 206. See also
winds, 260-65 atmosphere, of Earth
Aurora Borealis, 294 eastern seas, 194--200
echo sounder, 206, 340, 344
barometers: aneroid, 247-48; mercurial, 247-48 Einstein, Albert, 320-21
bathyscaphes, 237, 343 electricity, 327-31; batteries, 329; conductors and
bathythermograph, 214, 343 insulators, 327; current, 328-29, 344; electric circuit, 329-
beach erosion, 216-18; breakwaters and groins, 217 30,344; Ohm's Law, 330; power, 330-31; voltage, 327-28
Beaufort Wind Scale, 264-65 electronics, 332-36; electrOlnagnetic waves, 332-33, 344;
Bernoulli's principle, 322, 343 radar, 334--35; radio, 334; wave propagation, 333-34
Big Bang, 278 El Nifio, 224--25
biolurninescence, 232, 343 Enduring Freedom, Operation, 197
black holes, 317, 343 Exxon Valdez, 189-90
Black Sea, 191-92, 225
buoyancy, 324--26; buoyant force, 324--26, 343 face on Mars, 301-2
Fahrenheit temperature scale, 250; converting to Celsius,
Callao Painter, 224, 225 250
Caribbean Sea, 181; fishing in, 186; millerals of, 186; ports fishing industry, 229-31. See also aquacultnre
and bases, 186-87; strategic geography, 187-88 flight, physics of, 321-23
Cassini spacecraft, 307 FLIP ship, 237-38
Castro, Fidel (Cuban), 187 fog, 257-58

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