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  2. Ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    Greenland ice sheet as seen from space. An ice sheet is a body of ice which covers a land area of continental size - meaning that it exceeds 50,000 km 2. [4] The currently existing two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have a much greater area than this minimum definition, measuring at 1.7 million km 2 and 14 million km 2, respectively.

  3. Check sheet - Wikipedia

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    The check sheet is a form (document) used to collect data in real time at the location where the data is generated. The data it captures can be quantitative or qualitative. When the information is quantitative, the check sheet is sometimes called a tally sheet. [1] The check sheet is one of the so-called Seven Basic Tools of Quality Control. [2]

  4. Antiparallel (biochemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Antiparallel and parallel beta sheet. Many proteins may adopt a beta sheet as part of their secondary structure. In beta sheets, sections of a single polypeptide may run side-by-side and antiparallel to each other, to allow for hydrogen bonding between their backbone chains. Beta sheets can also be either a parallel or anti-parallel secondary ...

  5. Laurentide ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.

  6. Patagonian Ice Sheet - Wikipedia

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    The Patagonian Ice Sheet was a large elongated and narrow ice sheet centered in the southern Andes that existed during the Llanquihue glaciation. The ice sheet covered all of Chile south of Puerto Montt plus the western fringes of Argentine Patagonia .

  7. Tenmile Creek (Lewis and Clark County, Montana) - Wikipedia

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    Tenmile Creek is a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) [2] long tributary of Prickly Pear Creek, located in southern Lewis and Clark County in the state of Montana in the United States. . Although somewhat polluted by abandoned mines and mine tailings in its upper watershed, Tenmile Creek supplies about half the water for the city of Helena, the state

  8. Broadsheet - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of some newspaper sizes with metric paper sizes. Approximate nominal dimensions are in millimetres. A soldier reading Pravda, a broadsheet newspaper, in 1941. A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages, typically of 22.5 inches (57 cm).

  9. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program - Wikipedia

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    Fruits and vegetables are to be given as snacks outside normal mealtime hours as dictated by the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program. [3]There are limitations on how produce can be prepared.