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Food Chain Field Trip
718 wordsThe field trip to Elk Island Park taken by both biology twenty classes was an interesting and fun day. We learnt about many different types of plant and animal life in different ecosystems and how they contribute to their ecosystem. The two main ecosystems we looked at in detail were the marsh and the bog. We look at and recorded facts about the abiotic and biotic factors in the area to better understand the importance of these ecosystems. The first thing we learnt about was some of the biotic a...
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People Who Live Nile River
415 wordsThe Comparing and Contrasting of Snails of the The Nile River is a river that winds through Africa into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River is considered to be the river of life for both people and wildlife. People who live along the river have the highest rate of bladder cancer. The Schistosoma Haematobium or blood fluke, which is carried by a snail called the Bulinus Truncatus, infects many people who live along the river. There is a parasitic worm which burrows into blood vessels of the hum...
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Spinal Cord Fresh Water
581 wordsSchistosomiasis (also known as Bilharzia) is a disease caused by small parasitic flatworms, species of trematodes of the family Schistosomatidae, which are commonly called blood flukes. The major types that cause schistosomiasis in humans are Schistosoma mansoni leading to intestinal schistosomiasis, S haematobium leading to urinary schistosomiasis and S. japonicum leading to Oriental or Asiatic intestinal schistosomiasis. Persons can get schistosomiasis when their skin comes in contact with con...
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Poem Anti Christ
1,546 wordsCompare 2 Poems By Liz Lochhead And Compare 2 Poems By Liz Lochhead And Fleur Adcock Saying What You Find Interesting About Their Writing Styles And The Way That They Deal With The Subject Matter. Compare 2 poems by Liz Lochhead and Fleur Adcock saying what you find interesting about their writing styles and the way that they deal with the subject matter. Katie Wilkinson I have chosen to compare Liz Lochhead? s poem Revelation and Fleur Adcock? s poem Nature Table. Both poems describe young chil...
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Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act
1,937 wordsIn the past century, one of the greatest threats to North Americas aquatic ecosystem has been the widespread acidification of hundreds of thousands of waterways. Acid rain has effected plant and animal life within aquatic ecosystems, as well as microbiology activity by affecting the rates of decomposition and the accumulation of organic matter. What causes this poisonous rain, and what can be done to improve North Americas water quality and prevent future catastrophes? To answer these questions,...
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Finny Reader
1,387 wordsUpon returning to his school fifteen years after graduating, Gene Forrester, recalled his days at the Devon School in a surreal sense. In his own words, ? In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day I entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left. ? Helping embellish this reality were his friends, including Leper Lepellier, who appeared in...
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Abdominal Pain Six Weeks
981 wordsEver wonder what kind of parasites are in your water, or how they can enter in to your body to make you very sick? Well it is most definite that no on want to get sick. The information found in this paper was collected over the past month, either by going to the library or by accessing information off the Internet at home, almost every night. The point that will be given to you is a little in information about the infectious disease called Schistosomiasis. The points the main points will be the ...
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Plants And Animals Million Acres
2,088 wordsPreservation of Wetlands Wetlands are in danger. We must try to help them because they are very important to us. They provide habitat and food for a variety of animals. They also provide the unique growing conditions needed to grow certain kinds of plants. The survival of many species depends on wetlands. A wetland is an ecosystem in which land meets water or a piece of land that is covered with a thin layer of water at least part of the year (Lisowski 1). Most wetlands in the Continental U. S. ...
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Dead Or Dying Based On Domination Fish
908 wordsOur categorizations of nature are based on domination. The world is divided ecologically into predator and prey, or bigger more advanced animals versus smaller simpler creatures. One category is superior which dominates the second category which is inferior. But this dualism based on dominance represented by the demand of a preferred human order upon nature is in fact contradictory. As an obvious example, carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap consumes insects, and the bigger and more taxonom...
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Jay Gould Stephen Jay
1,834 wordsStephen Jay GouldProfesor Stephen Jay Gould, who has died of cancer aged 60, was an unlikely figure to have been canonized in his lifetime by the US Congress, which named him as one of Americas living legends. A paleontologist, he was based for most of his life at the museum of comparative zoology (MCZ) at Harvard, where, since 1982, he had been Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology. But he was best known to the public through his unbroken sequence of 300 monthly essays in Natural History magaz...
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