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In some cases, magma rises in conduits to the surface as a thin and fluid lava, either flowing out
continuously or shooting straight up in glowing fountains or curtains. The eruptions of Hawaii’s volcanoes
fall into this category. In other cases, entrapped gases tear the magma into shreds and hurl viscous clots of
lava into the air. In more violent eruptions, the magma conduit is hollowed out by an explosive blast, and
solid fragments are ejected in a great cloud of ash-laden gas that rises tens of thousands of metres into the
air. An example of this phenomenon is the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens. Many explosive eruptions
are accompanied by a pyroclastic flow, a fluidized mixture of hot gas and incandescent particles that
sweeps down a volcano’s flanks, incinerating everything in its path. If the expelled ash or gases collect on a
high snowfield or glacier, they may melt large quantities of ice, and the result can be a disastrous flood or
landslide that rushes down a volcano’s slopes.
Volcanic eruptions can also result in secondary damage, beyond the direct loss to life and property from the
eruption itself. Volcanic ash can cause respiratory illnesses such as silicosis and can be particularly harmful
to infants and people with chronic lung diseases. Gases such as hydrogen chloride, carbon monoxide, and
hydrogen fluoride can cause both short- and long-term problems. Eruptions can cause economic harm that
affects workers’ livelihoods and can force mass migrations of people in affected regions. The 2010 eruption
of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull also demonstrated the threat posed to jet aircraft by high clouds of volcanic
ash; this eruption led aviation authorities to ground flights across northern and central Europe for several
days.
Krakatoa, Indonesian Krakatau, volcano on Rakata Island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra,
Indonesia. Its explosive eruption in 1883 was one of the most catastrophic in history.
Krakatoa lies along the convergence of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a zone of high
volcanic and seismic activity. Sometime within the past million years, the volcano built a cone-shaped
mountain composed of flows of volcanic rock alternating with layers of cinder and ash. From its base,
1,000 feet (300 metres) below sea level, the cone projected about 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) above the sea.
Later (possibly in 416 CE), the mountain’s top was destroyed, forming a caldera, or bowl-shaped
depression, 4 miles (6 km) across. Portions of the caldera projected above the water as four small islands:
Sertung (Verlaten) on the northwest, Lang and Polish Hat on the northeast, and Rakata on the south. Over
the years, three new cones were formed, merging into a single island. The highest of the three cones rose to
2,667 feet (813 metres) above sea level.
The only confirmed eruption prior to 1883 was a moderate one in 1680. On May 20, 1883, one of the cones
again became active; ash-laden clouds reached a height of 6 miles (10 km), and explosions were heard in
Batavia (Jakarta), 100 miles (160 km) away, but by the end of May the activity had died down. It resumed
on June 19 and became paroxysmal by August 26. At 1:00 PM of that day the first of a series of
increasingly violent explosions occurred, and at 2:00 PM a black cloud of ash rose 17 miles (27 km) above
Krakatoa. The climax was reached at 10:00 AM on August 27, with tremendous explosions that were heard
2,200 miles (3,500 km) away in Australia and propelled ash to a height of 50 miles (80 km). Pressure
waves in the atmosphere were recorded around the Earth. Explosions diminished throughout the day, and
by the morning of August 28, the volcano was quiet. Small eruptions continued in the following months
and in February 1884.
The discharge of Krakatoa threw into the air nearly 5 cubic miles (21 cubic km) of rock fragments, and
large quantities of ash fell over an area of some 300,000 square miles (800,000 square km). Near the
volcano, masses of floating pumice were so thick as to halt ships. The surrounding region was plunged into
darkness for two and a half days because of ash in the air. The fine dust drifted several times around the
Earth, causing spectacular red and orange sunsets throughout the following year.
After the explosion, only a small islet remained in a basin covered by 900 feet (250 metres) of ocean water;
its highest point reached about 2,560 feet (780 metres) above the surface. As much as 200 feet (60 metres)
of ash and pumice fragments had accumulated on Verlaten and Lang islands and on the remaining southern
part of Rakata. Analysis of this material revealed that little of it consisted of debris from the former central
cones: the fragments of old rock in it represented less than 10 percent of the volume of the missing part of
the island. Most of the material was new magma brought up from the depths of the Earth, most of it
distended into pumice or completely blown apart to form ash as the gas it contained expanded. Thus, the
former volcanic cones were not blown into the air, as was first believed, but sank out of sight, the top of the
volcano collapsing as a large volume of magma was removed from the underlying reservoir.
Krakatoa was apparently uninhabited, and few people died outright from the eruptions. However, the
volcano’s collapse triggered a series of tsunamis, or seismic sea waves, recorded as far away as South
America and Hawaii. The greatest wave, which reached a height of 120 feet (37 metres) and took some
36,000 lives in nearby coastal towns of Java and Sumatra, occurred just after the climactic explosion. All
life on the Krakatoa island group was buried under a thick layer of sterile ash, and plant and animal life did
not begin to reestablish itself for five years.
Krakatoa was quiet until December 1927, when a new eruption began on the seafloor along the same line as
the previous cones. In early 1928 a rising cone reached sea level, and by 1930 it had become a small island
called Anak Krakatau (“Child of Krakatoa”). The volcano has been active sporadically since that time, and
the cone has continued to grow to an elevation of about 1,000 feet (300 metres) above the sea.
Many humans have similar goals and aspirations, but not similar days and responsibilities. I am
realizing this more than ever now as my days and responsibilities are about to undergo a massive shift.
After I give birth, I know it will be harder. And while I plan to go through that exercise again, I thought
I’d ask for expert advice. I reached out to behavioral scientist Katy Milkman, author of “How to
Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” and the James G.
Dinan professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
“We know that if you want to build a new routine, you’ll need to plan it out in detail,” Milkman told
me. “But research shows that when we make multiple detailed plans to achieve multiple goals, instead
of helping us, it hurts us.”
She advises we focus on prioritizing one new goal at a time and building out a plan for achieving that
goal when it comes to routines. “Say you want to meditate and exercise in the morning and don’t do
either now,” Milkman said. “It might be better to pick one to prioritize as your new goal to add to your
morning and make a detailed plan for when you’ll do it and where you’ll do it.”
1. What is the passage discuss? How to find a morning routine that works for you
2. Undergo closest meaning to? experienced
3. Mimicking closest meaning to? Imitate
4. figured out closest meaning to?understand
5. apa yg membuat unsettling feeling that you carry with you through the rest of the day? may feel
stressed out because you haven’t figured out what’s right for you
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, that sank in the North Atlantic
Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to
New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died,
making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time.[a] It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking
of an ocean liner or cruise ship.[4] The disaster drew public attention, spurred major changes in maritime
safety regulations, and inspired many artistic works.
RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-
class ocean liners built for the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
Thomas Andrews, the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the
command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the
wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and
elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada.
The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium,
swimming pool, smoking rooms, high-class restaurants and cafes, a Turkish bath, and hundreds of opulent
cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger "marconigrams" and
for the ship's operational use. Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and
remotely activated watertight doors, contributing to its reputation as "unsinkable".
Titanic was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48
boats. However, she actually carried only 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to
launch while she was sinking (Collapsible A nearly swamped and was filled with a foot of water until
rescue; Collapsible B completely overturned while launching). Together, the 20 lifeboats could hold 1,178
people—about half the number of passengers on board, and one-third of the number of passengers the ship
could have carried at full capacity (a number consistent with the maritime safety regulations of the era).
When the ship sank, the lifeboats that had been lowered were only filled up to an average of 60%.
In the 1980s and 1990s Borneo underwent a remarkable transition. Its forests were leveled at a rate unparalleled in
human history. Borneo's rainforests went to industrialized countries like Japan and the United States in the form of
garden furniture, paper pulp and chopsticks. Initially most of the timber was taken from the Malaysian part of the
island in the northern states of Sabah and Sarawak. Later forests in the southern part of Borneo, an area belonging to
Indonesia and known as Kalimantan, became the primary source for tropical timber. Today the forests of Borneo are
but a shadow of those of legend and those that remain are rapidly being converted to industrial oil palm and timber
plantations.
Oil palm is the most productive oil seed in the world. A single hectare of oil palm may yield 5,000 kilograms of crude
oil, or nearly 6,000 liters of crude, making the crop remarkably profitable when grown in large plantations. As such,
vast swathes of land are being converted for oil palm plantations. Oil palm cultivation has expanded in Indonesia
from 600,000 hectares in 1985 to more than 8.6 million hectares by 2015, according to U.N. FAOSTAT.
Borneo, especially Kalimantan, has also been heavily affect by peat fires set for land-clearing purposes. Millions of
hectares of peat, scrub, degraded forest, and rainforest have gone up in flames over the past 30 years.
Borneo is the third largest island in the world, covering an area of 743,330 square kilometers (287,000 square miles),
or a little more than the twice the size of Germany. Politically, the island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and
Brunei. Indonesian Borneo is known as Kalimantan, while Malaysian Borneo is known as East Malaysia. The name
Borneo itself is a Western reference first used by the Dutch during their colonial rule of the island.
Geographically the island is divided by central highlands that run diagonally from Sabah state (Malaysia) in
northeastern Borneo to southwestern Borneo, roughly forming the border between West and Central Kalimantan
(Indonesia). The range is not volcanic — the whole of Borneo has only a single extinct volcano — but does feature
the highest mountain in Southeast Asia: Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, which reaches 4,095 meters (13,435 feet).
Borneo's forests are some of the most biodiverse on the planet, home to more than 230 species of mammals (44 of
which are endemic), 420 resident birds (37 endemic), 100 amphibians, 394 fish (19 endemic), and 15,000 plants
(6,000 endemic). Surveys have found more than 700 species of trees in a 10 hectare plot — a number equal to the
total number of trees in Canada and the United States combined.
Several distinct ecosystems are found across Borneo. These are reviewed in WWF's "Borneo: Treasure Island at
Risk" report (2005).
For some children, teachers are the only positively influential people in their lives. Antwone Fisher, a best-selling
writer, grew up in foster homes, and didn't have many adults that he could trust. But a primary school teacher, Mrs
Profitt, was the first adult he ever trusted. 'She spoke to all of us the same way – with respect. No one spoke to me
that way before. I think that being with her for three years made all the difference.'
3. apa yang dilakukan mrs profit? 'She spoke to all of us the same way – with respect
4. apa yg dilakukan drama teacher ke bill gates? Bill Gates's drama teacher helped him to be good at public speaking.
1. Mass tourism? the business of providing holidays for very large numbers of people
3. where the large cruise ships were causing problems for both people and the environment.? Venice
4. paragraph 6 tentang apa? The impact of tourism on energy consumption and pollution