Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cayo de Agua [1] [2] (in English literally Water Key) is the name of an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea [3] that geographically belongs to the Los Roques Archipelago [4] [5] and is administratively organized as part of the Federal Dependencies, Venezuela, [6] in addition to being part of the National Park of the same name and the Miranda Island Territory, the name of this key has its ...
The Miskito Cays (Spanish: Cayos Miskitos) are an archipelago of small cays and reefs with an area of 27 km 2 located off Mosquito Coast in the Caribbean exclusive economic zones of Honduras [2] [3] and Nicaragua. [4] [5] [6] They are part of the Gracias a Dios Department in Honduras and the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region in Nicaragua.
Carbonic anhydrase, an enzyme that requires zinc (gray sphere near the center of this image), is essential for exhalation of carbon dioxide.. In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element.
A freshwater aquatic food web. The blue arrows show a complete food chain (algae → daphnia → gizzard shad → largemouth bass → great blue heron). A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
The Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Mexico. Cenotes are surface connections to subterranean water bodies. [5] While the best-known cenotes are large open-water pools measuring tens of meters in diameter, such as those at Chichen Itza in Mexico, the greatest number of cenotes are smaller sheltered sites and do not necessarily have any surface exposed water.
The Cayos Arcas is a chain of three tiny sand cays and an accompanying reef system in the Gulf of Mexico, 128 kilometres (80 miles) from the mainland. [12] It is located approximately 130 kilometres (81 miles) from the mainland, west of Campeche.
The town was originally named El Cayo by the Spanish. On 19 October 1904, El Cayo was officially declared a town by the government of British Honduras. [4] In the past a creek ran between the Macal and the Mopan rivers one mile outside of San Ignacio going toward Benque Viejo. This creek then fulfilled the definition of an area of land ...
Potassium serves as an activator of enzymes used in photosynthesis and respiration. [6] Potassium is used to build cellulose and aids in photosynthesis by the formation of a chlorophyll precursor. The potassium ion (K + ) is highly mobile and can aid in balancing the anion (negative) charges within the plant.