which live on Santa Cruz Island. The jays live in seperate places, eat seperate foods, have seperate bills, but are the same species. One "type" of jay lives in oak forests, eat acorns, and have shorter bills. The other kinds of jays live in pine forests, eat pine cones, and have longer bills. The jays are not completly speciated because they mate, however mating is extremely rare. The article explains how allopatric speciation occurs, and shows how explanitory it is, compared to simpatric…
The Smoky Mountains are home to a wide variety of plants. The Great Smoky Mountains national park is over 800 square miles, and throughout this vast space is found a large diversity of plants. The national park is over 95% forested, and is sometimes referred to as the “wildflower national park”. While over 12,000 plant species have been discovered in the park, there is evidence that there may be as many as 90,000 unfound species. The range of elevations throughout the Smoky Mountains makes it a…
White Heron”, Sylvia, a child who spends much time in the story-like realm of the woods near her home, meets a charming hunter who is looking for the rare white heron. The hunt for the heron allows Sylvia to explore the woods deeply and climb the great pine tree of the forest. Before encountering the hunter, the woods near Sylvia’s home provided her an escape to a parallel universe where she could enjoy and observe nature’s many wonders. This changes as Sylvia…
My expectation before going to CREW I had a lot of anxiety because my biggest phobia is a snake, I was so worried I was going to see one while we visited Crew. I was very tense as we left from FGCU. As we arrived CREW I was so nervous with the outdoor walk. The CREW tour guide was very excited to let us know how CREW started and why is benefits Southwest Florida. In addition, The CREW Land & Water Trust was the first public and private partnership approach to an ecosystem-based acquisition…
the importance of this event, the safety, and the ability to be able to accomplish it at such a young age. This passage from Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron,” takes us back down to memory lane and uses Sylvia’s climb to the top of the monumental pine tree to see the ocean as a metaphorical image to us, as adults, being able to achieve our wildest dreams for the future. This passage perfectly displays the danger, excitement and the “I did it” feeling by using a distinct narrative pace, a third…
run. To make the tree feel more real, she would buy pine Febreze, and candles. However, one year she came to the decision to buy a real Christmas tree. I remember being so happy and excited, because I had never experienced a real Christmas tree before. Immediately, once the tree was up in the house, the smell of natural pine spread throughout the entire house. The smell of pine was so rich and pure. From that moment on, I knew what real fresh pine smelled liked, and this smell did not compare to…
If one was to look at Ontario as a region we find a great variation in ecosystems. We may divide the province into four regions, the Hudson Bay Lowlands in the northern reaches of the province, the Boreal Forest, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest and Deciduous forest (Government of Ontario). 26 million hectares, covering one of the largest expanses of wetland in the world, the Hudson Bay Lowlands is characterized by bogs, fens, few slow growing forest and tundra, of this two-thirds of this…
Every year my church nominates fifteen young adults to go on an annual mission trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I was honored when I was selected to go because it showed me that the adults in my life recognized the hard work and dedication I am willing to put into everything I do. Through out the whole summer I was on the vacation bible school committee and organized food, games, and crafts for the children that we would be interacting with. But then, about a month before we were set…
In this essay, there will be four of the main articles discussed in my English class and how each of these articles show relation to the essential question “What is success?” These passages include, “Into The Wild,” by Jon Krakauer, which shows success by introducing Chris McCandless and how he had shown his success by leaving home and setting out into the wild to live a successful life in his terms.“Nature,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, shows how the author believes success is the natural and calm…
The main ingredients in Pine Sol are benzoic acid, ammonium hydroxide, aqua ammonia, pine oil, surfactant, and isopropanol. This product is possibly hazardous if inhaled and may cause irritation if overexposed. If Pine Sol gets in a person’s eyes, he or she should flush their eyes with water for several minutes. The hazard website warns people not induce vomiting if this…