Earthworm

are not plants, fungi, protists, or monera; humans are animals. Believing ourselves to be the pinnacle of creation, the smartest and most capable of all that populate this planet, we face a conundrum that we fall in the same classification with earthworms, flounder, bulldogs, and orangutans. Clifford Geertz, an anthropologist, explained this by asserting “Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun” (Clifford 5). Those “webs of significance” are culture. So when we…

1.Soil forming factors 1) Climate- The climate of the Pullman series leans on the side of ustic and is in fact a Paleustoll, but can boarder on aridic at times. Ustic is an intermediate between udic and aridic with the winters being relatively dry, and the growing season is characterized by plant available moisture between significant periods of drought. The Pullman series meets this descriptions, in that it’s driest periods lie between July and August, and then December through February, with…

Wednesday Journal: Today, we spent our time at the Audubon Center of the Northwoods in Sandstone, Minnesota. The weather was sunny with splashes of clouds and it felt especially humid. The first part of the day was spent contrasting the prairies we observed yesterday at Sherburne Wildlife Refuge with the newly restored prairie at Audubon. Historically, the new prairie was an old agricultural field; the team removed the old plants, sprayed to remove the plants, burned off the older vegetation…

Kumale Fufa Ramisha Islam 18 November 2014 Period 1, Period 2 The Effect of Different Levels of Nitrate and Phosphate in Fertilizer Runoff Before and After Rain Water is a major resource and is essential for life. It is naturally recycled through a process called hydrological cycle. The demand of water over the world has been increasing as population and industrialization does, while available drinking water has been deteriorating due to pollution.Fertilizer runoff is a serious…

She decided not to. “Took you long enough. Where were you? Havin’ a shot with the old judge, or what was left of him once I left him dried up and spent?” Sam didn’t laugh. He stood there like an erect corpse. This wasn’t the feared downtown barrister, wordless, a strain in his eyes reminiscent of the old days of a near- gone and soul-lost man. Sweet Mary didn’t break the silence. She let quiet do what it did and come back to her. Listening to its mes- sage was a skill she’d learned from the old…

This is one way in which energy is transferred between organisms in an ecosystem. The energy is used for a number of life processes. In a food chain only around 10 per cent of the energy is passed on to the next level. The rest of the energy passes out of the food chain in a number of ways: 1. via heat energy 2. is used for life processes (for example movement) 3. uneaten parts that pass to decomposers 4. is excreted and passes to decomposers. As less energy is transferred at each level…