Biome

Plastic Bottles Are Just Big Trouble “50 billion plastic bottles are used each year in America, that’s enough to wrap around the world 190 times,” (Leithman). Even though plastic bottles are popular now, when they were first created in 1947, they were very expensive and not many people bought them. However, in 1960, high-density polyethylene was made and introduced to the public. As the demand for plastic bottles escalated, consumers produced more plastic bottles for cheap, while selling the…

As Achebe demonstrates through Things Fall Apart, relationships between cultures need to evolve from one of domination/dominated to one of cooperation. In order to preserve the planet, the destructive perspectives and beliefs that humans are perpetuating in ignorance and arrogance must be reversed or amended. Perspective precedes and precipitates action. Grove notes in his essay “Green Imperialism” that the awareness to preserve the environment on some scale is nothing new but that many attempts…

the photosynthesis process the plants had learned as microscopic bacteria hundreds of millions of years before. While many new species of plants and animals were popping up everywhere, the Earth started creating new and different environments and biomes for these specimens to thrive and expand in. Some ways this happened was the Continental drift. The Continental drift occurred around 94 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period, and it was the global separating of the super continent…

Researches show that the Amazon deforestation is a constant concern. Nowadays, more than 337.000 squared miles of forest was lost. This represents all France territory inside. The impact is huge, degradation in rivers, because the forest uses the same biome that the water, until dead of plants that use similar symbiosis. Another fact to remember is the damage to Indians tribes that live in that region. The Amazon still has approximately 60 ethnics group of Indians, what represent more than…

Bud bank dynamics (Benson, Hartnett et al. 2004) study suggest that the densities and dynamics of tallgrass prairie plant populations, as well as their response to disturbance (e.g., fire and grazing) and climatic variability, may be mediated principally through effects on the demography of belowground bud populations. Patterns of seed reproduction and seed bank populations have little influence on short-term aboveground population dynamics of tallgrass prairie perennials. Our results indicate…

Introduction Brazil is the seventh largest nation by GDP today and fifth largest by size. Over the last few years, Brazil has been a point of interest for many people and companies looking to invest internationally. Brazil has shown continuous stable growth and investment profitability. Along with their large work force, natural resources, infrastructure and technological advances they are seen as an excellent opportunity for investors. Brazil has the seventh largest economy in the world and…

Many years ago, laying out on the trampoline late at night, I remember hearing the coyotes howl and yip in the field bordering my friend’s house. The sound so frightened us that we promptly rushed inside. To children that grew up never truly in the country, only on the edge of town, coyotes seemed so wild. However, as Dan Flores illuminates in his book, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, that encounter was not an unusual experience at all. In the past century coyotes have spread…

I will be taking my family (mother, father, and brother) to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. We went one year when I was 4, but I don’t remember anything. This will be a nice chance for our family to catch up and spend some time together before I go off to college. We will drive there using I-30 and I-40, stopping overnight in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a 755-mile journey and since we will be driving a Prius, we can count on 50 mpg on the highways. The national average gas price…

4.0Chapter four Discussion: 4.1 Point Counts By restraining the recording of species to a 10- 50m fixed radius when in dense forest at kamwala 1 forest, it allows the subtraction the certain bias, such as, the highly vocal forest species; White bellied Go Away bird and Tropical Bulbul, as well as those species which ‘generally’ occur above the canopy (for example; forest raptors). The most widespread species to occur across all the count areas (map 1) were Common Bulbul, Orange ground thrush…

Sulfuric acid in lakes and rivers interferes with the fish’s ability to take in oxygen, salt and nutrients that are essential to its survival. 1.5.2 Effects of acid rain on plant life The effects of acid rain on plant life is less subtle than in aquatic biomes. The direct effects of acid rain on plant life include dissolving leaves and leeching essential minerals and nutrients needed for healthy functioning. Trees and many other plants are affected by the presence of aluminum and other metals…