annual rainfall of about 1500 mm, the precipitation decreased from south to north. Major vegetation types The major vegetation types of South Korea is Subtropical Evergreen Broad-leaved Forest. It is composed of species several types of trees: Fagaceae, Lauraceae, Theaceae, Magnoliaceae and other components type of vegetation is evergreen. It is usually dark green, forest canopy is neat, undulating microwave. Environmental issues/problems For decades, South Korea 's has had a rapid…
Washington borders Canada to the north, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Washington is known as the "Evergreen State" because its forests of firs, hemlocks, pines and other evergreen trees are always green. Washington has a diverse landscape that includes forests and large mountain ranges. Most of the mountains are capped in snow. There are five major volcanoes as part of the Cascade Range…
Consumer’s strategy for recovery As Patricia Deegan stated in her article, The Importance of Personal Medicine, recovery is not the process of passively swallowing pills. Rather, she states that recovery is composed of a myriad of things individuals do to feel better. I found this statement to be true when talking to Erin, our consumer educator. Erin is a 35 year old female who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Erin reported that she began having auditory, visual, and olfactory…
Biodiversity conservation and sustainability are the two major challenges on a global scale in all ecosystems and communities around the world. Multiple factors affect these two in complex ways, and both the areas are often identified as ‘wicked’ problems in ecology. As such, both the topics can be approached by fieldwork, tracking the underlying connections that affect the quality of human life and provide evidence-based feedback on policy matters. In my research statement, I provide an outline…
Smoking Cessation The student government committee of Evergreen Technical College would like to recommend that our school offer a smoking cessation program or provide direction to sources of smoking cessation programs that are currently available. The subject of smoking cessation programs arose during recent discussions at the student government planning sessions, due to the no smoking policy on the Evergreen Technical College campus. We believe it would be of great benefit to the school to…
Myrtle, whom Nick describes as having a “perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering” (23). If Myrtle resides in a garden of abject poverty, why would author F. Scott Fitzgerald choose to make her an evergreen of spirited life? The answer could be that a life of poverty may still be richer than one lived in superficial wealth. Myrtle Wilson is anxious to escape her station in life. She hopes to leave the valley of ashes via her lover Tom Buchanan, a…
The biome I chose is the Temperate Deciduous Forest. The biome is located around mid-latitude, between polar and tropical regions. This includes the eastern half of North America, the middle of Europe, southwest Russia, Japan, eastern China, Middle East coast of Paraguay, New Zealand, and southwestern Australia. The Temperate Deciduous Forest is broken down into 5 different zones. The first zone being the tree stratum zone where the trees range from 60-100 feet tall. The second zone is small…
call Sheng Dan Jieh, which means Holy Birth Festival. Either way people in China celebrate Christmas there way even if they are Christians or not. As usual they decorate there homes just like we do but instead they decorate their homes with evergreens, poster, and bright paper chains. The families put up there Christmas tree, called " tree of light", and red paper chains that symbolizes happiness. They cut red pagodas to paste on the window, and…
1. Adaptation is a noun. Also a change or the process of change of that an organism can best suit the environment lived in. A: Desert, Its hot and very dry. Less than 10 inches or rain. Quite a bit of direct sunlight. Soil is rocky and sandy which means it is unable to hold much water. Winds are usually very strong which means it drys out the plants. Plants are exposed to very hot and no water. B: Grassland, or prairie have very warm summers and chilly winters. Not much rainfall…
They occur in grassland, tropical evergreen forest, semi-evergreen forest, moist deciduous forest, dry deciduous forests, and dry thorn forest (KAJAYSRI, J., & NOKKAEW, W., 2014). The average life span of the Asian elephant is approximately 50 years including captivate and wild Asian elephants.…