* In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious ;

The ocean near Cape Verde is an area of tropical cyclone formation ; since these storms have the whole Atlantic over which to develop as they move westward, they are among the most intense hurricanes, and are called Cape Verde-type hurricanes.

A Cape Verde type Hurricane is formed in the area south of the islands, near Sao Miguel, after a tropical wave on the African continent during the rainy season.

This area encompasses both tropical and semiarid environments.

The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.

Forests sometimes contain many tree species only within a small area ( as in tropical rain and temperate deciduous forests ), or relatively few species over large areas ( e. g., taiga and arid montane coniferous forests ).

* The remaining area of virgin tropical moist forests will be significantly smaller in 2004 than in 1994.

Louisiana is often affected by tropical cyclones and is very vulnerable to strikes by major hurricanes, particularly the lowlands around and in the New Orleans area.

All of the empires arose in the area then known as the western Sudan, a vast region of savanna between the Sahara Desert to the north and the tropical rain forests along the Guinean coast to the south.

Nevis lies within the track area of tropical storms and occasional hurricanes.

Almost 60 % of the country's area is located within this region, ( or ) giving Peru the fourth largest area of tropical forest in the world after Brazil, Congo and Indonesia.

These forests have the particularity of connecting to the Amazon basin through the Marañon passage ( an area where there are also tropical dry forests ).

With an area of 4499 square meters the conservatory is designed to minimise the amount of energy taken to run it and to this end the cooler zones are grouped around the outside with the more tropical zones in the central area where heat is conserved.

The fertile floodplain and tropical monsoon climate, ideally suited to wet-rice ( tham na ) cultivation, attracted settlers to this central area over to the marginal uplands and the highlands of the northern region or the Khorat Plateau to the northeast.

Thailand has about the same surface area as Spain and a length of approximately 1650 kilometers or 1025 miles ( Italy, in comparison, is about 1250 kilometers or 775 miles long ), with foothills of the Himalayas in the north, a high plateau in the northeast, a verdant river basin in the centre and tropical rainforests and islands in the south.

The new Village is located in a desert tropical area instead of Wales, with location filming taking place in Namibia and South Africa.

In fact, current estimates place boreal forests as storing twice as much carbon per unit area as tropical forests.

Vietnam is a country of tropical lowlands, hills, and densely forested highlands, with level land covering no more than 20 % of the area.

In the tropical regions, these clouds cover around 70 % of the region's surface area.

It was argued that without Asiatics to work in the tropical areas of the Northern Territory and Queensland, the area would have to be abandoned.

coca ( Bolivian or Huanuco Coca )-well adapted to the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia, an area of humid, tropical, montane forest.

A stream which has all of its watershed within a national forest or other lands under good conservation practices is less likely to be affected by pollution than one passing through unrestricted logging or past an industrial area.

He extended Roman territory to the sea, founding the port of Ostia, establishing salt-works around the port, and taking the Silva Maesia, an area of coastal forest north of the Tiber, from the Veientes.

The area is 14, 662. 8 hectares, which includes 42. 2 % ( 6, 186. 2 hectares ) agriculturally used area and 37. 7 % ( 5, 534. 9 hectares ) of forest.

The majority of Southeast Alaska's area is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States ' largest national forest.

In addition to the expected kinds of wildlife to be found in a European forest area, the following types of animals may be observed in the Black Forest.

The native laurel forest species are in wet area only in mountainous areas.

There are 22. 9 million hectares ( 56. 5 million acres ) of forest ( 37 percent of the total land area ), but only 3. 4 million hectares ( 8. 4 million acres ) of dense forest, all in the south in the regions bordering the DRC.

The only forest left completely untouched in Côte d ' Ivoire is Taï National Park ( Parc National de Taï ), a area in the country's far southwest that is home to over 150 endemic species and many other endangered species such as the Pygmy Hippopotamus and 11 species of monkeys.

* Catchment area: 2, 033 km² ( 37. 1 % natural forest, 58 % active agricultural )

The biggest green area in Chojnów is small forest Park Piastowski ( Piast's Park ), named after the Polish Piast dynasty.

As a result, these first releases were followed by further distributions across much of the region, although their effectiveness on other crops, such as cabbages, has been questioned ; when the toads were released at Wau, the cabbages provided insufficient shelter and the toads rapidly left the immediate area for the superior shelter offered by the forest.

The forest area change may follow a pattern suggested by the forest transition ( FT ) theory, whereby at early stages in its development a country is characterized by high forest cover and low deforestation rates ( HFLD countries ).

A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

The London-based Rainforest Foundation notes that " the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10 % actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests.

For example, while burning an area of fairly thick forest and thus turning it into a more open, grassy environment might reduce the viability of a large browser ( an animal that eats leaves and shoots rather than grasses ), the reverse could also be true: removing the browsing animals ( by eating them, or by any other means ) within a few years produces a very thick undergrowth which, when a fire eventually starts through natural causes ( as fires tend to do every few hundred years ), burns with greater than usual ferocity.

Of this area 10 % is water, 69 % forest, 8 % cultivated land and 13 % other.

A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees.

Uses of the word " forest " in English to denote any uninhabited area of non-enclosure are now considered archaic.

Forests are differentiated from woodlands by the extent of canopy coverage: in a forest, the branches and the foliage of separate trees often meet or interlock, although there can be gaps of varying sizes within an area referred to as forest.

But for those which do, the slow growth of the area has a retarding effect on the metropolitan core.

The meat cutters' union, which has a history of being one of the fairest and least corrupt in our area, represents the little corner markets as well as the large supermarkets.

But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.

The legislature's role in policy determination in this area for years has been confined almost solely to the amount of funds appropriated annually for the purchase and operation of vehicles.

Nowhere has this decline been more painfully evident than in the New York City area.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.

One of us has a pool set in a wooded area very near the house.

Each area has its own historical interests with which much can be done.

Long observation has taught Mason that most landscape can be reduced to three essential planes: a foreground in sharp focus -- either a light area with dark accents or a dark one with lights ; ;

The author has recently studied the field of medical electronics and has been convinced that, in this area alone, the application of electronic equipment has enormous possibilities.

One gram of cotton has been found to have a specific surface area of Af.

Some of this trend toward area vocational schools has been related to the problems of persistent labor surplus areas and their desire to attract new industry.

The AWOC has been able to employ the traditional weapons of labor -- the strike and the picket line -- with considerable success, particularly in the area of wages.

The problem arises, if it does arise, when the educator has to make a choice or a decision within the area of his professional competence, but which bears some relation to the social structure.

The broad conclusions of that pioneering work remain undisturbed, but subsequent research has expanded and somewhat altered their empirical support, has suggested important revisions in the general analytic frame of reference, and has sharpened the meaning of particular analytic concepts in this area.

If a statement has been assigned an address in the index word area

The oxidation pond has a surface area of 4.77 acres and a depth of 4 Aj.

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

Merchant has found that the same basic relationships which describe the geometry and force systems in the case of the cutting mechanism can also be applied to the discontinuous chip formation provided the proper values of instantaneous shear angle and instantaneous chip thickness or cross-sectional area are used.