Sunday, February 28, 2010

Hurricanes and tornadoes features

The table gives us information about the differences between hurricanes and tornadoes.

Both hurricanes and tornadoes are very dangerous and they cause big damage on the places they hit. Hurricanes have a minimum wind speed of 74 MPH whereas tornadoes have minimum wind speed of 40 MPH. Tornadoes usually start over land but hurricanes start over warm oceans. The duration is different between hurricanes and tornadoes because hurricanes duration is 1 week average whereas tornadoes duration is about 20 minutes or less. Another big difference is the width of storms. Hurricanes have an average width of 300 miles whereas tornadoes have an average of 1.5km.

In conclusion, hurricanes are more dangerous than tornadoes because of their wind speed and storm width.





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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Leading car models

The table shows us the specidication of four leading cars models.In this essay i'm going to compare and contrast these four leading cars.

The most expensive car is the colkswagen golf which is priced at $18,250 and it's created in German with a engine size of 1600cc and it spends 40 miles per gallon.The nissan micra has the smallest engine size of the four leading car models and it consumes less petrol than the other cars.The Toyota Corolla and the ford focus have the same engine size and it is 1400cc but the Toyota Corolla consumes less petrol than the ford focus, However they are almost the same price.

The table shows that volkswagen has the biggest engine, althrough it is the most expensive.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Top ten date producers in 2001.

The bar chart shows the top ten date – producing countries and their annual production in tonnes in 2001.
The leading country in date production in 2001 was Egypt with over 1,000,000 tones. Iran was the second country in date production with about 850,000 tones. The next two countries are much the same in date production namely Saudi Arabia and the UAE but the UAE was the third in the top ten date producing countries in 2001 with approximately 790,000 tones whereas Saudi Arabia produced 780,000 tones. Iraq and Pakistan are both the same in date production with about 630,000 tones of dates. The last four countries are Algeria with 390,000 tones, Oman with 220,000 tones ,Sudan with 190,000 tones and finally Libya with 150,000 tones of dates.
The bar chart shows that Egypt’s production of dates in 2001 was like adding up Libya, Oman, Sudan and Algeria.

The UK budget in 1996.

The pie chart gives information about how the UK government was spending £315 billion in 1996.
The biggest expenditure was on social security which was £ 100 billion and it is almost double the amount that was spent on health and personal social services which was £ 53 billion. Another huge expenditure was in education and it was probably an annual increase in the schools and colleges equipment. The next category is debt interest with £25 billion. After that comes the other expenditure and the defense expenditure was £ 1 billion less that the other expenditure. Three more costs industry, agriculture and employment. The lowest spending was on transport with £ 9 billion.
The pie chart shows that social security and health and personal social services comprised almost half of the UK government budget in 1996.