Walker‚ Shiv‚ Genoa are the three main characters in the book called The Unsinkable Walker Bean. Walker. Walker is trying to bring a magical skull back and if looked at the skull or opened the bag that contained the skull would be very sick. Shiv is a friend of Genoa and they are on the same ship Shiv finds Walker as a stowaway and the people of Shiv’s ship don’t know about Walker. Genoa is a tough girl that also doesn’t know about Walker until later in the book and she is friends with Shiv. The
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Aroma of Christmas Trees One familiar smell around Christmas is that of the pine tree. The smell comes from the chemical pinene. There are two compounds in a pine tree‚ Alpha-pinene and beta-pinene. The chemical compounds The pinene is part of the terpenes family‚ which are produced by plants. Terpenes can form aerosols with other chemicals that go into the clouds and cool the air‚ as well as make the skyline above mountains blue. The terpene pinene is also a reason that pine trees are so flammable
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1. Description 2. Background Information a. Common Names African Baobab‚ Baobab‚ Monkey Bread Tree‚ Upside Down Tree‚ Cream of Tartar Tree b. Scientific Name Adansonia digitata L. c. Family Name Bombacaceae 3. Species a. Adansonia digitata L. b. Adansonia Grandidieri c. Adansonia Gregorii d. Adansonia Madagascarcariensis e. Adansonia Perrieri f. Adansonia rubrostipa g. Adansonia suarezensis
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Important Forest Trees And Their Uses ( Originally Published 1922 ) Of our native trees‚ the white pine is one of the best and most valuable. It is a tall straight tree that grows to a height of 100 to 150 feet. It produces wood that is light in weight and easy to work because it is so soft. At ‚one time there were extensive pine forests in the northeastern states. Many of the trees were very large‚ and occasionally one may still see pine stumps that are 5 to 6 feet in diameter. White pine made fine
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beauty of nature. In the first passage‚ Jay Parini points out his concern about the destruction of nature by mankind. In the other text‚ Beryl Markham describes the sanctuary and endless Serenghetti Plains. People around the globe need to be more appreciative and have a positive attitude toward nature because when it is gone we will be the ones that will feel its absence. Parini’s poem “The trees are gone” is like a long complaint. He remembers when he was young the wonderful trees that surrounded
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had to think‚ how can this pattern change so it can show light‚ and dark values. What I liked about this project was coming up with different patterns I could use. If I could do anything differently I would change the scale pattern I used on the L.L Bean boot. The still project focused on the proportions of each object and how they interacted with the other objects‚ and the light. One of the hardest things for me in this project was trying to make the wrinkles in the fabric look real. But I do really
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PROBLEM What is the role of sunlight on the germination of Vigna radiata (Mung bean) seed? II. TITLE The role of sunlight on the germination of Vigna radiata seed. III. RATIONALE The germination of the seed is a physiological event. The light is one of the most important environmental factors for germination of seeds. The seeds of many species do not germinate in the dark. Vigna radiata seed or Mung bean seed as it commonly called will be used for the study since it can be prepared anywhere
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Mutualism: Fig wasps and fig trees Fig wasps (Agaonidae) are a species of wasps that have a life span of a couple of days and could be as little as 2mm in length. Hence the name these wasps are sole pollinators of fig trees (Ficus)‚ each fig tree species has its own particular wasp for pollination. Fig trees are totally dependent on fig wasps for pollination and have been for the past 60 million years‚ this shows that this process of pollinating is efficient and sustainable creating equilibrium
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Save our nature! It is hard to say what the meaning of nature is. ‘Nature’ refers to life in general – various types of living plants and animals‚ the weather and all the things around us. It seems that ‘nature’ is something completely known for people‚ because we know it from our observations‚ and also from the physics‚ biology and geography books. But the knowledge that these sciences give us is changeable. “Nature likes to hide” – it is so right‚ because nature has so many secrets and mysteries
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illustrations of nature portrayed in different ways. Vincent van Gogh’s The Olive Trees and Gustav Klimt’s The Park are clear examples of this. The Olive Trees‚ painted in 1889‚ and The Park‚ painted in about 1910 or earlier‚ are both from the Post-Impressionist movement‚ this explaining why they are painted in a realistic manner. The paintings of Gustav Klimt and Vincent van Gogh both illustrate the trees and nature and are oil on canvas‚ but in contrasting ways‚ one shows nature as "calm and still"
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