Leaf

Abstract: Fire can be seen as an intrusive, destructive force of nature and many can only see fire as a disadvantage phenomenon, but fire is an essential requirement for many ecosystems. This report looks at the consequences of fire on recovering forests of Australia. A survey was taken in 2011 at Anstey Hill in two different locations, one at the location where Ash Wednesday took place in 1983 and at another location where and uncontrolled fire took place in 1995. The survey looks at the…

foods. Just because we have a new way to engineer and grow crops doesn’t mean we have to eat it. We have been developing agriculture for thousands of years, so we can choose not only our foods, but also how they are grown. The New Leaf potato ran into this problem. The New Leaf potato reduced the need for pesticides because of its genetic modification. It wasn’t successful because people had the ability to make an alternative choice. People like a sense of familiarity when it comes to food. This…

The jungle looked like a child had sploshed layers of solid blue, white and green paint on a blank canvas, the blue strip of sky, white line of sweltering bubbly clouds and a vast green canopy stretching beneath. It created a sign - a flag, the blue, white and green banner of the jungle, surmounted on high to declare the jungle’s glory and prowess, demanding dominance over any other lifeform because it’s a jungle out there. The canopy is a thick green blanket; it smothers the jungle until one…

the rest of the head. The compound eyes are usually oval and fairly small, although in some species, they are larger and more circular. The Experiment • Collect 20 large branches from a Jacaranda tree that are infested with the biocontrol agent (Leaf Mining Fly). Divide the branches into 4 equal groups of 5. • Put each group of 5 into different climates; 1st Group: Outside under direct…

treated plant thrived over the control plant was during week 3. During that week the Average measurement of the leaf length for the treated plant was 49 millimeters and the average measurement of the leaf length for the control plant was 46.75 millimeters. However that did not last long because in week 4 the tables completely turned in favor of the control plant. The average measurement of the leaf length for the control plant was 51.75 millimeters and the treated plant is was only a small 44.5…

The kangaroo without a pouch Little KengaRo sat under a thick baobab tree and feel himself very sad. His mother, KangaRoo, went on a journey for the young leaves of acacia. Those beautiful trees grew close to the Croco Lake. KengaRo really wanted to travel with his mother - there near the lake was so interesting! But he couldn’t - his mother didn’t have a pouch for her little joey. All KengaRoo’s friends have the pouches - the traveler RaKenga has got, the mighty Ryu has got, the jumping…

Gerblitzel the Carbon Atom lived billions of years ago in the age of the dinosaurs in Russia. Gerblitzel lived in skies and one day he traveled through the stomates of the leaf and lived there. One day Gerblitzel was out on one of the leaves and he had his amazing view of the dinosaurs as they ate their breakfast of plants and trees when he realized that one of them was coming his way. He was scared and jumped but he thought, “well, I guess there must be hundreds of plants around what are the…

newborn, ever so delicate and fragile in its first years of life. The next line,” Her early leaf’s a flower; but only so an hour”, compares Nature to a human in its prime. The word flower signifies nature creating offspring. The next line, “Then leaf subsides to leaf” Signifies autumn. This is a key indicator of life reaching its end as autumn is the time for life to slowdown and either perish or take shelter. This is can be compared to a human reaching old age and starting to give in to the end…

language manipulations. One poem that shows this in particular is The Young Housewife. This poem is about the time the speaker was driving and sees a young housewife near the curb, calling the ice-man and fish-man to come. He compares her to a dried leaf, which at the end, he crushes with his car. This poem was published in 1916, a time when the world was a misogynistic place. Though the Women’s Suffrage movement was still prevailing, women were constantly seen as inferior people, limited by…

The boneseed leaf roller moth (Tortrix s.l. sp. chrysanthemoides) is a month in South America that was released in several different locations (New Zealand, Australia) to control the population of the boneseed plant (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp.monilifera). The bonseed plant is a destructive plant that overtakes and damages native plants. The plant is thick with daisy like yellow flowers, leathery leaves and black clustered fruit. This plant produces large amounts off seeds that quickly over…