Cannabis, or in it's popular name, 'Marijuana', is a plant consisted of dried flowers. This unique plant has many variations of different types of chemicals, which can stimulate psychological and physiological effects upon a living thing. Breaking the recreational drug into a more complex version will result in 'hemp' or classified by the US government as a "Schedule 1 controlled substance drug". Along with it's 50,000 possible beneficial uses of the plant, hemp is considered to be the most essential cash
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reproduction. Bryophytes: are plants that lack vascular tissue and require environmental water to reproduce. General characteristics of this group include: a waxy cuticle to slow down water loss and gametangia that protect developing gametes. The male gamatangium is called the antheridium which produces flagellated sperm. The female archegonium produces a single egg. Bryophytes need water to reproduce. They do not contain any vascular tissue for up right support. These plants usually form mats of horizontally
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animal species tells us how are climate change is not good. What impact, if any, does this news have on you personally? It makes me more aware of how bad climate change is in California. I would prefer those Pikas to be transferred to a colder state, is it possible to do that? What information would you like clarified or have questions about? How will we be affected, if pikas become extinct because of climate change? The major terrestrial adaptations of plants are maintaining moisture
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The modern environment movement began on April 22, 1970 largely due to the release of the book The Silent Spring that is written by an environmentalist name Rachel Carson. Overtime, I think the environment has improved tremendously from where and how it all began. With the help of the National Resources Defense Council, many things started happening for the betterment of the environment. Many Acts and laws were passed such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act and the Endangered
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man, putting laws in place to prevent harm and maltreatment in our communities, and breaking these laws would indeed render the culprit to be considered morally wrong. We attribute value (be it intrinsic or instrumental) to sentient animals, even plant-life. But what of ecosystems? Can we consider ecosystems to be morally considerable, and therefore attribute any value to them? It is a question that has many variables, and in this essay I will be evaluating various arguments for and against the premise
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process of making coffee starts on plantations that grow coffee bushes, and in the end, it ends up as a delicious beverage. Today I want to tell you about planting, harvesting, and processing coffee beans. (show coffee life cycle photo on slide) Now that you know what I am going to talk about lets start with the beginning and how coffee is grown! (slide of coffee plantation) I. Growing coffee is not as simple as it sounds, it isn’t just a “bean” that grows on a tree and
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is difficult for me to know where to begin discussing it, or how to prioritize the many factors. Relaying my own experience is easy: I had a standard classroom approach, supplemented by inordinate reading. In only the briefest and least memorable instances did I receive any individual tutoring. Education is commonly thought of as the job of schools. Adults cry "educate our children!" Everyone has opinions about the best way to do the job. It is of urgent importance, and all the numerous factors
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explaining the application of thermodynamics to each process. In order to discuss the photosynthesis and the semiconductor-based solar cell, it is crucial to understand what is involved in each process and how they could be different or the same. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and some bacteria use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the fuel used by all living things. The solar cell connects solar energy to convert it into electricity
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effect in the booklet. Read the passage to know what Nowshin and Sajid have learnt so far. A greenhouse is a house made of glass. It has glass walls and a glass roof. People grow tomatoes and flowers and other plants in them. A greenhouse stays warm inside, even during winter. Sunlight shines in and warms the plants and air inside. But the heat is trapped by the glass and can't escape. So during the daylight hours, it gets warmer and warmer inside a greenhouse, and stays pretty warm at night
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August 30, 2011 EXPLORATION What is the relationship between the increase in light intensity and the photosynthetic rate in leaves from a corn plant? How does this relationship compare with what you observed for tomato plants? As light intensity increases, the photosynthetic rate of a plant increases as well. However biochemical reaction, in fact, DO have temperature limits because if the temperatures reach a certain degree and overheat, the enzymes will get damaged and/or lost and inevitably
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