tools is called a theodolite, the illustration shows a surveyor using one. You may have seen one on a building site. It is still important to measure tall trees - which are in fact the largest and oldest living organisms. Did you know that the tallest tree in the world is in Redwood National Park in California? It's as tall as a 30 storey building! That's about 360 feet!! Some of the early ways of measuring the height of tall structures are still in use today. They require very little equipment and
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that fell must go back, students can talk Lord of the Rings Object: Students must walk on a wire from their tree to the tree across from them. There are any amount of trees and the wires converge on a ring in the center. There is a rope from one tree to another not across from it. Extensions up: Must completely start over if someone falls, can’t talk, must go back to starting tree when they fall, can’t go back once they make it across Extensions down: Only the person that fell must go back
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Internet assignment #1 1) Deforestation is happening in the rainforest through the time period covered by the satellite images of Rondonia, Brazil. Commercial logging is the number one cause of deforestation. Logging happens on the area in a feather pattern so loggers can travel easier and ship the product out. For the People around the area after the area has been logged use the area as cropland. This further clears the surrounding area and prolongs the deforestation. This area is now susceptible
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there was any markings in the near by tree line, Except there was nothing but another foot print in the trees behind the left side bank. There was nothing that was looking like there was anything that resembled a deer track to a scuf mark on any of the trees near the bank but when I got back from the scan of the area I heard a scraping so I stood still and i sat in the swamp. Then it was nothing that was heard from the scraping until I got back into the tree stand. When the scraping started again
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matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees,[1] or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in tree roots or in other plants such as shrubs.[citation needed] In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also mediates the transfer of water and nutrients to the leaves and other growing tissues. Wood may also refer
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to become when they grew up. The first little tree looked up at the stars and said: " I want to hold treasure. I want to be covered with gold and filled with precious stones. I'll be the most beautiful treasure chest in the world!" The second little tree looked out at the small stream trickling by on it's way to the ocean. " I want to be traveling mighty waters and carrying powerful kings. I'll be the strongest ship in the world! The third little tree looked down into the valley below where busy men
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has seven old trees, wild flowers and a lot of bugs and ants during summer time. I used to go there to sit down on a rock and watch the town and my trees. There was a very old tree, a maple tree, with a huge trunk. The others were smaller, three in the back, three on my left side and the old maple tree on my right. There were flowers, many kinds, white, yellow, purple and blue. It was nobody's place. Nobody owned that hill, but it was beautiful and peaceful and I dreamed many times about
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of grass beside the house suggests defensiveness. TREE: The trunk can be seen as representing inner strength, self-esteem, and intactness of the personality. The use of faint sketchy lines to represent the trunks indicates a sense of vulnerability, passivity, and insecurity. These same concerns might also be represented by shading trunk, or lines that are heavily reinforced or perforated. The branches function as a means by which the tree extends itself out into and related to its environment
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outline to map ones family history, to being a self sustained ecosystem of its own, the tree has represented many things throughout history. With its roots reaching deep into the ground to provide nutrients for the trunk, branches, and leaves, they are a perfect example of the circle of life. As the leaves wither and die they fall to the ground and begin to decay providing food to be used again by the tree from which they came. This self perpetuating cycle has been around for billions of years
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‘NARRA It is a large deciduous tree growing to 30–40 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. The leaves are 12–22 cm long, pinnate, with 5–11 leaflets, the girth is 12–34 m wide. The flowers are produced in panicles 6–13 cm long containing a few to numerous flowers; flowering is from February to May in the Philippines, Borneo and the Malay peninsula. They are slightly fragrant and have yellow or orange-yellow petals. The fruit is a semiorbicular pod 2–3 cm diameter, surrounded by a flat 4–6 cm
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