forests have a tropical wet climate and are quite humid all the time. The yearly rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year. Tropical rainforests produce almost half of the oxygen on earth. Scientists say that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests. Rainforests only cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface. The rain forest is home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet. The rainforest is home to many endangered animals and has more kinds
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functions and in the more complicated like forms, are organized into tissues and organs that also have definite structures and functions. (Biology, 2012) They have to be able to take in some kind of oxygen for example, the way that trees and plants do. Plants and trees are able to reproduce themselves and absorb and respond to the environment around them and reproduce; they absorb the moisture from the grown and the heat from the sun around them and grow bigger and stronger. If you look at sand
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Oak Tree Seeds is the fruit of oak trees, shaped like a cocoon, also known as chestnut cocoon. Oak tree seeds outer crust, brown-red, inner kernels such as peanut kernels, rich in starch content of about 60 percent. Both edible and can be used as raw materials used in the textile industry sizing. Oak tree seeds is edible, but some acorns (black means red oak acorns) contains a lot of tannin, if not treated will feel the direct consumption of green acorns lower tannin content bitter, white oak, and
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A Girl’s Garden A neighbor of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing. One day she asked her father To give her a garden plot To plant and tend and reap herself, And he said, "Why not?" In casting about for a corner He thought of an idle bit Of walled-off ground where a shop had stood, And he said, "Just it." And he said, "That ought to make you An ideal one-girl farm, And give you a chance to put some strength On your slim-jim
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zones. Therefore South Africa owns a huge diversity of plants and animals, whereas other countries can just dream about. The flora is one of the species-richest on earth. 10 percent of the existent plants can be found just in this country, speaking of 24.000 species. Those are more that you can find in whole Europe. Specially famous among botanists is the Cape Floral Kingdom as one of the only six floral kingdoms in the world .9,600 recorded plant species are just found there and 70 percent of them
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Jun, Seong min Aug 14. 2015 BIO 1333 Prof. Amadzadeh Dinoflagellate Kingdom: Chromalveolata Phylum: Dinoflagellata Vegetative structure: flagellate protist Habitat: marine, fresh water Chloroplastid: chloroplast Cell
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baranggay with small number of constituents. They choose to plant mangroves because of its positive effect in their environment and in the shorelines. They inform the people in their barangay that planting mangroves will help them stop water from splashing directly to their houses if there is a storm that brings lot of water to the municipality. Their barangay officials officiate and introduced us in the planting site. They guide us on how to plant the mangrove seed, from tying the knot to the stick that
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complexes of which they are part; it includes diversity within species between species, and of ecosystems. Literal meaning of biodiversity is the (b) diversity of all life forms on earth. This includes the various races and species of all micro-organisms, plants, and animals that live on earth, including their genetic differences. Bangladesh is a (c ) transitional zone of flora and fauna, because of its geographical settings and climatic characteristics. There are many rivers and streams existing in the
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climate change? The major terrestrial adaptations of plants are maintaining moisture, obtaining resources from two locations, supporting the plant body, and reproduction and dispersal. To maintain moisture, a waxy cuticle that prevents water loss covers the aboveground parts of most land plants. Plants need to obtain resources from two locations, so their roots provide anchorage and absorb water and mineral nutrients from the soil. Above ground, plants have leaves that obtain CO2 from the air and light
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Plant Diversity Paper Plants are extremely diverse multicellular photosynthetic organisms whose evolution can be traced back to one common ancestor. This common ancestor would most likely be some variation of the common day green algae. Even though these green algae are only modicums of modern day plants they still contain the most important characteristic of all, the ability to photosynthesize. Photosynthesis is the ability to take in water, carbon dioxide, and solar energy and convert it
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