The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth. It covers over 1.4 billion acres of land. About two and half million different insects and 40000 plant species live in the Amazon. Location • South of the equator • 3.1600° S and 60.0300° W • Stretches across 9 different countries in South America The abiotic factors in the Amazon Rainforest are important because they affect the plants and animals that live there. Without these factors trees and plants would not be able to
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When Columbus "discovered" America‚ there was no corn on board the Nina‚ Pinta or Santa Maria. Before 1492‚ no one living in Europe ate corn cakes‚ corn bread or corn pudding. They didn’t know corn existed. Up to this time‚ corn grew only in the Americas. Scientists believe corn was originally cultivated by Indians in the highlands of Mexico thousands of years ago. The Indians discovered that corn was good to eat and very nutritious. As Indian groups migrated north they brought corn with them
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covered with tussock and “niggerheads.” (with the right to purchase at five pounds per acre at the end of five years) In this state‚ he managed to use his superior farming skills and built a stockyard and a fine dairy of sods‚ which did duty for some years. Boag worked steadily and determined and before he knew it‚ he had transformed the place into an exquisite scenery. He then expanded the place into 1700 acres and started importing England shorthorn bulls of the best lineage. He started breeding
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1888 PressRelease - Innovative Nonprofit Provides Treatment to Veterans who suffer from PTSD. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater‚ FL - The Circle of Veterans (COV) is a small but growing nonprofit started by an Army Veteran and his wife. The organization was formed to provide alternative therapies for individuals and their families that suffer from Post Traumatic Stress and other deployment related mental health issues. The focus will be on a variety of natural holistic forms of healing to include:
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One of the acts the federal government put in place to populate or pull people from the east to the western half of the country in the mid to late 1800’s was the Homestead Act of 1862. This act consisted of giving 160 acres of land free to any family who promised to work on it for five years‚ this act just like the other two‚ caused an agricultural development. The Homestead Act of 1862 made possible the living of small farm families and it permitted the augment of a society of independent farmers
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I would not sell the 400 acres to someone else beccause land is important to own for many reasons. One reason is because the land is a family owned property. Another reason is because If I sell my property‚ then I would have to become a sharecropper. The final reason I wouldn’t sell is because a lot of good things are going to happen in the future. That is why I wouldn’t have sold my property. The first reason I would not sell is because the land was family owned for years and a lot of work
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Our ancestors first cultivated plants some ten thousand years ago. They domesticated animals later and then selectively bred both plants and animals to meet various requirements for human food. Humans discovered natural biological processes such as fermentation of fruits and grains to make wine and beer‚ and yeast for baking bread. Manipulation of foods is not a new story‚ therefore. The latest agricultural discovery uses genetic engineering technology to modify foods. Farmers and plant breeders
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Many advancements and improvements have been made over the last 200 years‚ in the farming realm‚ in order to create better crop yields and‚ more importantly‚ make farming a whole lot easier for the typical farmer (typical meaning a 750-1500 acre farm). Technology has come a long way in the farming industry which makes the farm and the equipment used on the farm nothing like what it started out as‚ the seed is also very different than originally used. The farmers and the crops they produce are an
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ecosystem including change over time An ecosystem is all the biotic and abiotic components of an environment. The Angeles National Forest is in Los Angeles. The forest was established in December 1892. The forest covers approximately 650‚000 acres and is in between the metropolitan area of Los Angeles. The Angeles National Forest has watersheds within the forest to provide water to southern California and most important to protect the surrounding communities from devastating floods. The elevation
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that of Temple Emanu-El‚ which represents the earliest Jewish settlers in Dallas and dates a few years later than Freedman’s Cemetery. Freedman ’s Cemetery‚ a graveyard for African Americans‚ was established in 1869 on one acre of land purchased by trustee Sam Eakins. Another 3 acres was acquired for cemetery purposes in 1879 by trustees. A. Wilhite‚ Frank Read‚ A. Boyd‚ T. Watson‚ George English‚ Silas Pitman‚ and the Rev. A. R. Griggs‚ a former slave who later became a local church leader and champion
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