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International Ecotourism Monthly

Year 4, Issue 42, Nov. 2002

Go to the Ecotourism Crossword !

THE OCTOBER ECO-QUIZ WAS:
"Mass tourism activity also to be found in poikilotherm organisms."

 - The answer was:

The winners: Mark Merret, Canada, & P.P., Romania

Mark Merret's reply:

"Poikilotherm organisms body temperature is affected by their surrounding environment. Reptiles (which are poikilotherms) often sit in the sun to warm their bodies, and move to cooler areas to cool down. Sometimes humans do this for fun. The mass tourism activity could be when people visit warm sunny beaches and spend their day(s) basking in the heat, getting a tan. and then to cool off they take a dip in the ocean, lake, pool or whatever is there to cool off in. The difference between poikilotherms and humans here is that our bodies are designed to keep our body temperature at a constant level, in other words we're homeotherms. Poikilotherms bodies cannot regulate their body temperature."

Mark Merret's Favourite Website: 
Fleming College 2002 Ecotourism & Adventure Tourism Conference: http://www.flemingc.on.ca/ecotourism

P.P' s Favourite Website:
GSM Association (de facto International Mobile Telecommunications Standard) Health & Environment website discussing health effects from the use of mobile phones:
http://www.gsmworld.com/using/health/index.shtml

This Month we are inaugurating the Ecotourism Crossword !

Email the solution (in text form (1=, 2= etc.) to: news@ecoclub.com
Winners, or the provider of the best answer, will be able to add the link to their favourite tourist or environment website on this page.

The Ecotourism Crossword™

A C R O S S 7 "Flexible" Port & River in Alabama (6) 8 Watchmakers and letter of an alphabet, plural (6) 9 Seat of International Court (4) 10 Capital City sounding like Roman imperial guard (8) 11 Capital City on Lake Victoria (7) 13 Andean Capital (5) 15 African capital, famous for its castles (5) 16 East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks, plural (7) 18 The Termite is one (5,3) 19 Ice-free harbour and capital of huge frozen island (4) 21 Cuts down articles (6) 22 Capital of Roman Lusitania, also in Yucatan (6)

D O W N 1 Arab Gulf Port (4) 2 City in Island State (9,4) 3 Type of Small Finch (7) 4 Famous for its white cliffs (5) 5 Radical (13) 6 Mistress of Lord Nelson and Tax Heaven capital (8) 12 Award (8) 14 Goes with Principe (3,4) 17 Port and gateway to Australia's tropical wilderness, without the "s" (5) 20 Official language of Pakistan (4)

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