observations for determining Earth’s reflectance of sunlight‚ an important climate parameter. Long-term observations of earthshine thus monitor variations in cloud cover and atmospheric particles known as aerosols that play a role in climate change. Earthshine is readily visible to the naked eye‚ most easily during a crescent moon. Leonardo da Vinci first explained the phenomenon‚ in which the moon acts as a giant mirror‚ showing the sunlight reflected from Earth. The brightness of the earthshine
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The Wonders of Plants Experiment 2 – Upside Down Mungbeans Experiment 3 – Plant Labyrinth 6/18/2015 Mt Gravatt State High School Trinity Wong Abstract Introduction: Plants can’t move like animals do but they respond to certain stimuli‚ making them change the direction in which they grow. Plants are very sensitive to their environment and have evolved many forms of "tropisms" in order to ensure their survival. A tropism is a growth movement whose direction is determined by the direction
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The factors affecting plant yield: light level Abstract The factors affecting Zea mays‚ maize (C4) and Pisum sativa‚ or pea (C3) plant yield and growth patterns placed under shade and full sunlight were investigated. 20 plantlets placed into four vermiculite compost pots (5 from each plantlet) and submitted to fertilizer or no fertilizer. And after 4 weeks the results showed that maize grown in light with no fertilizer had a higher relative growth rate and root to shoot ratio indicating the allocation
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for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants‚ electric light the most efficient policeman” (Brandeis‚ 97). Brandeis’ statement laid the groundwork of the Sunlight Foundation‚ which was founded on the idea that utilizing new technology to facilitate citizens with information concerning Congress‚ will lead to the reduction of corruption‚ ensure greater government accountability‚ and establish public trust. The Sunlight Foundation claims that by‚ “providing
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will save you tens of thousands of dollars. Secondly‚ there are many social benefits of solar energy. Solar energy can prevent wars. Energy dependences of developing countries can be reduced because sunlight is available everywhere on the Earth and no one can go and buy the sun or turn sunlight into a monopoly. Although solar energy cannot be produced during night and cloudy days but it can be used
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and the son to survive in a grim environment. Yellowstone’s Supervolcano is not a typical volcano‚ but a volcano that has the ability to create a “nuclear winter” all across the United States (S4). This creates a cloud of ash which allows minimum sunlight to reach the land from all the “haze of gas” (s4). Throughout The Road‚ “the banished” and “unseen sun” was an implication that the sun was still
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savings‚ occupies a different historical space than a strain of sun-responsive architecture in the 1920s and 30s which accommodated sunlight for reasons of health and hygiene (heliotherapy). This genre‚ which may be known as heliotherapeutic architecture‚ emerged in concert with the sanatorium movement in late-19th century Europe‚ prompted by the idea that sunlight and fresh air contributed to a ‘cure’ for tuberculosis. Les Frênes (Leysin‚ Switzerland‚ 1911) was probably the first large purpose-built
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The effect of sunlight exposure on stomatal density on periwinkle (Vinca minor) leaves Laura Encarnacion‚ Matthew Tallent‚ and Harsimrat Sidhu 10/08/2015 Abstract Many environmental factors can contribute to a leaf’s stomatal density. The purpose of this experiment is to see how different light exposure in a leaf can affect the stomatal density of the leaf. The stomata allow the plant to regulate the intake and outtake of water and other molecules in order to maintain the plants temperature. Vinca
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are non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment‚ which affect ecosystems. A good example is that a lot of small bushes and shrubs would not be able to live here because all the really tall trees would block most of the sunlight causing a lack in sunlight to the bushes and shrubs below them. This will cause the bushes and shrubs to die. 4. An explanation of the key biotic factors (species) that are found in the ecosystem? The biotic factors that are found in the rainforest are made
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solar cells system. Plant Cells and Solar Cells Photosynthesis is the process of producing and releasing oxygen in the air. It needs sunlight‚ carbon dioxide and water. During the process of photosynthesis‚ the plants decompose the molecules of hydrogen and carbon-dioxide into hydrogen; carbon and oxygen produce glucose which forms the source of their energy‚ growth and food. Few years
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