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Sri Lanka Rainy Season
2,012 wordsGliricidia was first used in Mexico to provide shade for cacao plantations. It is from this use that the Aztecs labeled the tree "Madre de Cacao" (Mother of cacao). Later, in the 18 th Century, Gliricidia was brought to Sri Lanka to provide shade for coffee plantations. Today, the tree's long leafy branches are used to shade vanilla and tea crops as well. The tree is also known in Spanish as "Palo de Hierrro" (Tree of Iron) which eludes to Gliricidia's hard, heavy wood. This makes it ideal for f...
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Time It Takes Time Of Death
1,266 wordsOne of the first things that happens after death is that the temperature in the body starts to drop. Before the temperature in the body core drops, a temperature gradient must be established from the outside to the core. After this gradient has become established the body temperature will drop with a theoretically predictably rate. This fact can be used to estimate time of death. Even if one succeeds in predicting when the temperature of the body core was 37 degrees Celsius, one has to remember ...
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Time Of Death Dead Bodies
1,280 words... are occur. Subtract the first occurrence time with the discovery time, call this time A. Rear the blow flies to adults, let them mate, let them lay eggs on raw beef liver under conditions similar to the crime scene, take the time from opposition to the first occurrence of 1. instar larvae. Call this time B. By subtracting B-A, one gets C, which is an estimate of the time since opposition to discovery. Similar calculations can be done for other instars as well. If one has good base-line data ...
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The Evolution Of Primate Locomotion
2,242 wordsThe evolution of primate locomotion There are many points of view connected to the appearance of men on this planet. However, the majority of scientists state that men have developed though the evolution of primate. According to John Stewarts work The evolution of primates, pp 16 - 24, primates possess well advanced five-fingered, the finiteness adapted to a climbing on branches in the trees. Full division of beam and elbow bones provides mobility and a variety of movements of forward finiteness...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
3,666 wordsIntroduction To Evolution What is Evolution? Evolution is the process by which all living things have developed from primitive organisms through changes occurring over billions of years, a process that includes all animals and plants. Exactly how evolution occurs is still a matter of debate, but there are many different theories and that it occurs is a scientific fact. Biologists agree that all living things come through a long history of changes shaped by physical and chemical processes that ar...
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Food And Water Praying Mantis
3,395 wordsThe Praying Mantis (Mantis Religiosa) Contents Introduction Classes First Things First Key Features Basic Features Diet &# 038; Combat Style Reproduction Growth &# 038; Development Self-Defense Cultural Significance Praying Mantis Kung-Fu INTRODUCTION Praying Mantis is the name commonly used in English speaking countries to refer to a large, much elongated, slow-moving insect with fore legs fitted for seizing and holding insect prey. The name, Praying Mantis more properly refers to the specific ...
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South America One Side
1,457 wordsCarnivorous Plants In a world where plants are at the bottom of the food-chain, some individual plant species have evolved ways to reverse the order we expect to find in nature. These insectivorous plants, as they are sometimes called, are the predators, rather than the passive prey. Adaptions such as ossiferous lures and trapping mechanisms have made it possible for these photosynthesizes to capture, chemically break-down and digest insect prey (and in some cases even small animals. ) There is ...
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Costa Rica Toxic Waste
2,815 wordsThere are many important issues in the world regarding the environment and its affects on the average person. Though, the one that hits closest to home, worldwide, is the trust that individuals have in the food that they consume. Yet pesticides are still found daily in foods all around the world. Pesticides are toxins that are used by produce growers universally to control pests that can destroy crops. These toxins are being ingested by humans in the forms of fruits and vegetables that have rema...
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Tons Per Acre Fresh Market Cucumbers Cucumber
1,230 wordsAbstract This paper will Cucumbers Cucumbers Abstract This paper will focus on cucumbers. It will discuss their relationship to other plants, the region of its origin and the plant part used by humans. The way cucumbers are harvested and the value of the harvest will also be touched on. Diseases and insects that threaten cucumbers will briefly be discussed. Introduction From the times of the bible through Henry VIII reign and into the modern era, cucumbers have survived through the ages. Cucumbe...
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000 A Year College Instruction Entomology
330 wordsEntomology is the study of insects, involving their biology and control in relation to their environment and to man. Entomology also had an independent scientific discipline which had roots in biology. Some entomologists are involved in reducing harmful species of insects that destroy food, housing, plants, and clothing and cause discomfort and disease to humans, livestock and household pets. Others develop ways to increase growth rate and spread the insects that provide food, pollinate crops, a...
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Balsam Woolly Adelgis Begins Laying Eggs Tree
1,105 wordsBALSAM Forest Insects FOREST INSECTS BALSAM WOOLLY ADELGID (Adelgis Piece) Todays forests are under a continuous compound of physical stresses. In North America examples of this are evident in all regions, whether it be the subjection of Great Lakes woodlands to acid precipitation, the submission of hundreds of thousands of forested acres out west to fire of the catastrophic level, or annual gypsy moth defoliation of entire mountain sides in north central Pennsylvania. These dangers are out ther...
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Alternative Energy Sources Parts Per Million
1,972 wordsGlobal Climate Change Climate change is not a new concept; in fact there is evidence of major climate changes throughout the earths history. However since the industrial revolution and especially since world war two, there has been an unprecedented change in the earths atmosphere (Gates 4). As of March 1999, scientists reported the construction of a thousand-year record of the average temperature on earth. The results of their study concluded that a nine hundred-year cooling trend has been decis...
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Flowering Plants Six Inches
2,482 wordsHydroponics: Growing Without Soil The science of growing plants without soil has been known and used for more than one-hundred years. The word hydroponics, however, is comparatively new. Dr. W. E. Gericke is usually given credit for coining the word, which translated from Greek, means working water. The famous hanging gardens of Babylon were probably on of the first attempts to grow plants hydroponically. The work of Dr. Greece in the 1920 s and 1930 s in California, however, is generally consid...
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Patrick Is Attracted Imagery In The Book Moths
1,038 wordsIn the Skin of the Lion An Examination on the use of Moth Imagery in the Novel In the Skin of a Lion is a documentary on the voyage from childhood to adulthood of Patrick Lewis. Michael Ondaatje describes this voyage with recollections of sensory memories. These recollections permit the reader to relate to Patrick, as these memories are both simple and realistic. Patricks memories are often conjured up through touch, smell or color. The readers can not help but to imagine their own rendition wit...
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1,078 wordsAn insecticide is used to kill insects. There are many kinds of insecticides, but organic insecticides are the most commonly used (World Book, 1999). Organic insecticides are split into three different categories: Chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides, organophosphate insecticides, and carbamate insecticides (World Book, 1999). In this paper, Ill explore how toxic each of these insecticides are, how they affect wildlife, humans, and the environment, and what we can do to help. WHY USE INSECTICIDE...
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000 Square Miles Rain Forest
1,266 wordsIn 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40, 000 square miles. This number decreases each year by roughly 1, 000 square miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. It is too bad, because the rain forest is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is the most diverse, containing the most species of living things, much more than anywhere else, and most have yet to be identified. All rain forests are located on earths green belt, that is, the area r...
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Blood Pressure Uv Light
1,288 wordsThis report deals with testing the toxicity of certain chemicals on spiders, and determining the toxicity by how it affects it? s ability to weave it? s web. This report contains research on the four chemicals (benzedrine, chloral hydrate, caffeine, and alcohol) as wella's the spiders and their webs. Spiders are of course found in the class Arachnidia, which also contain mites, scorpions, and other arthropods. The order which spiders are classified under is called Araneae, a word of Latin origin...
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Devoured By Animals Aureliano And Amaranta Ursula House
544 wordscut this out-> (This paper got a 95 % in a 12 th grade english class. It is about how the characters in the novel talon animal characteristics, etc. ) When Ursula says, If we go on like this we? ll be devoured by animals (Marquez 309), it? s as if she? s looking into the future of the Buendia family. The future of the family, however, is not just to be devoured by the conventional animal, but also by other things taking the form of an animal. It rains for four years, eleven months and two days (...
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Praying Mantis Kung Fu
2,227 wordsMost Praying Mantiss MANTODEA Most commonly known as the Praying Mantis, order mantodea is a group of about 1800 carnivorous insects which prodominatley live in tropical regions of the earth. Though certain species can be found in locations with moderate climate. With an extremely striking appearence, mantid's almost have human like qualities with the ability to hold an erect stance, and arms that face forward. A very efficient killer, mantid's were created for hunting and killing prey. Order Ma...
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Venus Fly Trap Plasmolysis And Turgor Cells
667 wordsOsmosis, Plasmolysis, and Turgor Each cell has constantly to cope with osmotic phenomenons. Cells without walls that live in aqueous solutions are usually hypertonic. They are subject to a continuous influx of water that results in a pressure on the inside of the membrane. Some ciliates (like Paramecium) and flagellates (Euglena) have a special organ, a pulsating vacuole, that pumps the water out again and has to be supplied with energy. Red blood cells (erythrocytes) occur normally in isotonic ...
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