By Charles A. Heatwole
Geography is greater than simply minutiae, it may well assist you comprehend why we import or export sure items, expect weather switch, or even exhibit you the place to put fireplace and police stations whilst making plans a city.
If you’re focused on the realm and wish to understand extra approximately this interesting position, Geography For Dummies is a brilliant position to begin. no matter if you’re 16 or sixty, this enjoyable and straightforward consultant can help you're making extra feel of the realm you reside in.
Geography For Dummies delivers the instruments to interpret the Earth’s grid, learn and interpret maps, and to understand the significance and implications of geographical good points comparable to volcanoes and fault traces. Plus, you’ll see how erosion and weathering have and should swap the earth’s floor and the way it affects humans. You’ll get an organization carry of every little thing from the actual beneficial properties of the area to political divisions, inhabitants, tradition, and economics. You’ll additionally discover:* how one can have a rainforest on one facet of a mountain diversity and a desolate tract at the different* How ocean currents aid to figure out the geography of climates* the way to pick out an exceptional position for a shopping center* how one can effectively placed the plant to solid use in every little thing you do* How weather impacts people and the way people have affected the weather* How human inhabitants has unfold and the effect it has had on our worldIf you’re combined up by way of map symbols or mystified via Mercator projections Geography For Dummies might help locate your bearings. full of key insights, easy-to-read maps, and funky proof, this ebook will extend your realizing of geography and today’s global.
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32km) or 20¢ per minute in stopped or very slowmoving traffic (or for waiting time). There’s no extra charge for each passenger or for luggage. However, you must pay bridge or tunnel tolls (sometimes the driver will front the toll and add it to your bill at the end; most times, however, you pay the driver before the toll). You’ll also pay a 50¢ night surcharge after 8pm and before 6am. A 15% to 20% tip is customary. Note: Taxi drivers were lobbying for a fare increase at press time, and Mayor Bloomberg was supporting it, so don’t be surprised if you find higher fares when you arrive.
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All the paper money was recently redesigned, making the famous faces adorning them disproportionately large. The old-style bills are still legal tender. There are seven denominations of coins: 1¢ (1 cent, or a penny); 5¢ (5 cents, or a nickel); 10¢ (10 cents, or a dime); 25¢ (25 cents, or a quarter); 50¢ (50 cents, or a half dollar); the new gold “Sacagawea” coin and the older Susan B. Anthony $1 coins. The foreign-exchange bureaus so common in Europe are rare even at airports in the United States and nonexistent outside major cities.