PM 11:37, October 6, 2015. After I came out from library, I walked on Bascom Hill. I pulled out my earphones and tried to feel the environment. Contrast to bright and noisy State Street and Wisconsin State Capitol, where I could see in distant, where I was covered with darkness and silence. There was a just a little light from streetlight, and only yellow and green leaves are glowing near that streetlight As I sit down next to biggest tree and feel the cushion of lawn, I found out there are not many things that I can observe here. I was just with warm breeze, refreshing smell of lawn, and big trees surrounding the lawn, but no sign of any other life. For about twenty minutes of observation, I was not able to write any note because nothing changed
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Trees at the Bascom Hill were larger or at least similar to average tree size I used to see in my hometown. That questioned me because I felt Wisconsin is way dryer than my hometown, which means the tree itself is also dry. Therefore, I thought the tree on Bascom Hill should growth less than trees in my hometown, and I wonder why. My guess was difference in absorbing water. I thought the trees on Bascom Hill can absorb water more than trees in my hometown. Trees use its roots to absorb water from the soil. In order to take water from soil, osmosis needs to happen. Soil and tree have different concentration of water, and tree roots work as a selectively permeable membrane, which leads water to move in and out. Therefore, when the city rains, soil became hypertonic to tree, and tree became hypotonic to soil, moving water from soil into the tree until they have a same concentration of water and become isotonic to each other. Assume that same amount of rain falls in Wisconsin and in my hometown. Then trees on Bascom Hill will absorb more water because trees on Bascom Hill are hypotonic comparing to trees in my hometown and make more growth than trees in my hometown. In addition, the trees in Bascom Hill will adapt larger surface area on their roots than trees in my hometown in order to make osmosis more
Trees at the Bascom Hill were larger or at least similar to average tree size I used to see in my hometown. That questioned me because I felt Wisconsin is way dryer than my hometown, which means the tree itself is also dry. Therefore, I thought the tree on Bascom Hill should growth less than trees in my hometown, and I wonder why. My guess was difference in absorbing water. I thought the trees on Bascom Hill can absorb water more than trees in my hometown. Trees use its roots to absorb water from the soil. In order to take water from soil, osmosis needs to happen. Soil and tree have different concentration of water, and tree roots work as a selectively permeable membrane, which leads water to move in and out. Therefore, when the city rains, soil became hypertonic to tree, and tree became hypotonic to soil, moving water from soil into the tree until they have a same concentration of water and become isotonic to each other. Assume that same amount of rain falls in Wisconsin and in my hometown. Then trees on Bascom Hill will absorb more water because trees on Bascom Hill are hypotonic comparing to trees in my hometown and make more growth than trees in my hometown. In addition, the trees in Bascom Hill will adapt larger surface area on their roots than trees in my hometown in order to make osmosis more