My Favorite Tree

Every forest has a story to tell. By looking closely at its habitants, that story can be interpreted. Much of this narrative is written in the trees: their age, their tolerance to shade, and the rate at which they grow are all characteristics that can imply a lot about their environment. Exploring these relationships and how they connect with each other can indicate the health and history of the land. Heiberg Forest, located in northern New York, was once used for agricultural purposes in the 1800-1900’s. (Nowak, Lecture Notes) Much of the land once used for farming was left to regrow back into a young forest. The life history of different tree species can be determined by examining the most common species in Heiberg.

Plants are found everywhere on earth, up high on the ridge and down low in caves and caverns. The types of plants that live in these places depends on many factors. These factors are separated into two different categories, the biotic factors and the abiotic factors. Some of the biotic factors include, predation, competition, and habitat destruction. Plants with limited competition and large amounts of resources will be in a higher abundance than plants with limited resources and higher competition rates will be confined to areas and either out competed or will be the dominant species. Certain plants adapt to these factors and thrive and others don’t do as well. Some of the abiotic factors include, sunlight, water, temperature, and wind. These

Please record the address of the property where the samples were collected, or—even better—provide GPS coordinates). You will bring these leaves to the college and will identify the trees they came from using accepted scientific methodology. I will give you guidance in how to identify the tree species. (Note that this may involve meeting outside of class time). You will then write a paper, using the same format as your regular lab report, on the identity of the trees, whether they are native to our area or not, and discuss why they might be growing where you found them. Your paper will be reviewed and you will have the option to either accept the grade given, or correcting any problems found. If problems are corrected, your grade will be raised to the maximum and your paper submitted for possible publication online at www.saturnjournal.org. This will be worth 10 bonus points. 3. Extra exam credit. There will be four bonus points available on each of the two lab practicals, and five bonus points on the final lecture exam, for a total of thirteen bonus points. Total bonus points available = 30. When added to your lowest qualifying exam grade, this equates to a maximum of six (6) points added to your final course average. EXAM POLICY: A. Repeating exams. Please note that each exam may be taken once only. Exams may not be repeated because you are not happy

"The Thing in The Forest" by A. S. Byatt is a short story that takes place in London, it is about two girls who were send away by their parents with no clue why they were send,. Is the reason was a punishment or vacation. The two girls become friends as soon as they met each other and they were always together and did not want anyone to be friends with them because when Alys wanted to be friend with them they did not let her and that when she disappeared in the forest and nobody knows why and how she disappeared. When you read the whole story "The Thing in The Forest" , you will start questioning yourself these questions the following questions: do the thing is really exist or the two girls are imagining it? Did the boys that the girls named

The Lorax used his rhymes to save the truffula trees; he was their voice and their sentry, guarding them till the last one fell. Yet there seems to be no mythical creature here outside of Dr. Sues’ books to save the oaks, the birches, the conifers and the maples. They keep falling and our forests are being depleted far faster than they grow. Trees are sources of material, beauty, oxygen, shelter, shade, and natural boundaries. With all these uses for something as simple as a tree it seems only one of these uses causes harm to the tree.

The part of the intense father is filled in the hero Winston's creative energy by the anticipated picture of Big Brother, toward whom the anecdotal legend feels capable inner conflict. The dehumanizing engulfment of both id and personality by the superego as the last determination of this inner conflict is recommended toward the end of the novel, by Winston's failure to take care of a chess issue; think about the futile chessboard adjacent to the disfavored, wretched three deceivers at The Chestnut Tree. On the psychic instead of the social plane, the state of an individualliving in 1984-particularly when he, as Winston, is the main individual whoseinner life is spoken to mirrors the state of the self image stood up to by theexcessively reformatory

Their influence may be hard to see in 2017, but leading up the years the surviving trees provided optimal growing conditions. Experience secondary succession, the surviving trees started

Most living things require nourishment, water, daylight, oxygen and basic minerals to survive and develop. Situations with colder, wetter, dryer or practically unwelcoming conditions challenge plants and creatures. To defeat these survival bars, plants and creatures adjust survival systems - from developing thick hide to changing their entire body piece. Bristlecone pines are one of the world's most seasoned living beings. The twisted, rosy dark colored trees discovered high in mountain tundras can develop to over 4,000 years of age on account of adjustments. The tree built up an adjustment enabling it to monitor dampness, develop gradually, and start development each season when dampness and temperature conditions are satisfactory.

While she was working in the timber industry as a forester in the 1980's, Simard made some amazing discoveries. Normally, the forest is composed of different species of trees which compete

If one were to ask my friends what stands out about me, they would immediately refer to the strange dichotomy that exists within me. On the one hand, both of my parents are agronomists and have spent their entire lives trying to improve the yield of the plants that feed the world. On the other hand, I don’t want to follow them--I want to study government. At the same time, I have a serious fascination with the obscurities that connect plants, such as the fact that Balsa trees share a taxonomic family with the Marsh Mallow, the plant from whose root the fluffy treat of the same name was originally derived. Yet my greatest fascination lies in the Ginkgo tree. Ginkgoes are not adapted to modern life at all. In fact, Ginkgo biloba is more than

The movies. A place where everyone comes to see entertainment on the big screen. Going to the movies has become very common in American culture. Sometimes though movies can be more than movies; they become events which can pull you in and make you feel like you are a part of the movie. No movies do that better than horror movies, which could have you sitting at the edge of your seat in one minute, then have you cowering back in your seat the next minute. I experienced a horror movie like that, it pulled me into the movie and made me feel everything the main character felt. The movie is called The Forest. The movie uses effective scare tactics such as creepy environment, jump scares, and psychological horror.

The ginkgo tree is used for many different things in the present day. The process the leaves go through will be discussed first. The largest ginkgo tree plantation in the world is found in South Carolina. There are approximately 12 million ginkgo trees grown here. The leaves are picked from the trees when it is cooler outside. The leaves then have to be dried within 12 hours or they will begin to rot. These leaves are dried in a massive drum at temperatures up to 1, 260 degrees. More than 2.5 million pounds of dried, baled leaves, enough to fill 65 truck trailers, are shipped from South Carolina to Charleston to Europe (Anonymous No. 1, 1998). These trees are used in many different ways. The Japanese use the nuts to roast and eat at banquets and weddings. They also grind the seeds and use them to season soups, stews, and custards. This seems to be part of their

Poplar is a versatile tree species that is highly amenable to vegetative propagation (Jiaxing et al. 2014), it has a rapid growth rate, which is a good model system for the transformation of woody plant species (Ali-Movahedi et al.2014). These trees are highly beneficial to our environment; their oxygen plays a vital role in the protection of soil erosion in eastern China.

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is about a Russian family that is unable to prevent its beloved estate from being sold in an auction due to financial problems. The play has been dubbed a tragedy by many of its latter producers. However, Chekhov labeled his play a farce, or more of a comedy. Although this play has a very tragic backdrop of Russia’s casualty-ridden involvement in both World Wars and the Communist Revolution, the characters and their situations suggest a light-hearted tone, even though they struggle against the upcoming loss of the orchard. Apathy and passivity plague the characters and contribute often to the comic side of things. Sometimes, however, the passivity

Our lab investigated the morphological characteristics of leaves found in the sun and shade on various species of maple and oak trees around campus. Our null hypothesis was Acer and Quercus acclimate similarly with regards to SLW (specific leaf weight), size, and sinuosity. Our hypothesis was Quercus acclimation is greater than Acer SLW, size, and sinuosity. We tested these hypotheses by picking small sections of a branches from both maple and oak trees. A group was assigned either a maple or an oak tree, and needed a total of three different trees per group. Once three different trees were chosen, groups needed three shade leaves and three sun leaves of off each different tree. In total, each group should then end up with 18 leaves for testing. After collecting the leaves, we ran them through the LiCor 3100 leaf area meter to identify the area of each leaf. Major results found by the classes’ mutual data was each one of our p-values were greater than .05. This means that we failed to reject the null hypothesis. Thus, the lab results do not support our hypothesis that Quercus acclimation is greater than Acer SLW, size, and sinuosity.