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Venus Flytrap

Science & Nature · 571 words

• Venus flytrap What does it eat? Flies and other flying insects supplement its nutrition from the soil on which it lives. Sometimes if there is a large it will eat a small frog or toad. The Venus flytrap lives on soils that are poor in nutrients, and in particular nitrogen compounds,...

Desert Biome

Science & Nature · 863 words

• Any barren region that supports very little life may be called a desert. The cold expanses of Antarctica, extreme northern Asia, and Greenland are therefore true, but cold, deserts. Most commonly, however, the term desert is used for regions that are barren because they are arid, or dry. Arid...

Light Waves Research Project

Science & Nature · 382 words

• Chi-Yung Chan Mrs. Barkley Physics P.6 11 January 2014 Waves Research Project Light waves are the things that are reflected back into our eyes everywhere we look around us. Lights from the light bulb, sun and etc.. is light different wave lengths into one, for example if you were to hold a...

Mechanical Energy

Science & Nature · 538 words

• Have you ever wondered how a jet aircraft lifts its tremendous weight off the ground, or what gives a runner the stamina to reach the finish line in a race? In order to answer all these questions we must talk about the transformation of one sort of energy into another. The jet aircraft gets its...

Computer Virus

Science & Nature · 701 words

• "Traces of the Stealth_c Virus have been found in memory. Reboot to a clean system disk before continuing with this installation'" This was the message staring back at me from one of the computer monitors at my office. Questions raced through my mind. "Stealth_c?" "What's a system disk?" "How am I...

Murder, Rape, And DNA

Science & Nature · 331 words

• DNA is the information needed by a cell in order to reproduce an identical offspring. In some crimes detectives have no evidence or fingerprints to tell who had committed a crime. Now there is a way of finding who has committed the crime by a method called DNA Typing. DNA Typing is...

Avalanches

Science & Nature · 238 words

• The good effects of an avalanche An avalanche clears an area of trees and other obstacles. In the warmer months, land that experienced an avalanche in the previous winter will be clear, which creates a path up the mountain that offers easier traveling for both humans and animals. This helps...

Autumn A Magnificent End

Science & Nature · 504 words

• Autumn, in a deeper sense, is a magnificent ending to an era. Although all the leaves fall and the sun fails to shine for as long each day as it did during the summer, the death of the cycle of the living seasons is spectacular. It brings vibrant color, tolerable weather, and the promise that it...

Born Too Early

Science & Nature · 745 words

• According to the American Association of Premature Infants (AAPI), over 400,000 babies are born prematurely or at a low birth weight. As a result of being born early they are more likely to require high-technology intensive and specialized care in the hospital and follow-up care as infants and...

Projectile Motion

Science & Nature · 174 words

• PROJECTILE MOTION * The motion of the body thrown horizontally or an angle other than 90[0] with the horizontal component * Trajectory is the path that a projectile follows * Parabola is the trajectory of a projectile * Two components of projectile motion: Vertical component- air resistance is...

Cardiac Pacemakers

Science & Nature · 2,917 words

• The heart is bestowed with a specialized system that automatically generates rhythmic control via the sinus node, located in the superior lateral wall of the right atrium near the opening of the superior vena cava. The specialized pacemaker cells dictate control of the rest of the heart through...

Digital Television

Science & Nature · 877 words

• On November 1, 1998 computer companies, television makers, broadcasters, and program suppliers have made a transition from analog to . When the FCC passed a law forcing the networks to change from an analog broadcast to a digital broadcast, all the above mentioned industries have been scrambling...

Environment

Science & Nature · 266 words

• means the surroundings. Land, water, air, plants, animals, solid wastes and other things that are surrounding us constitute our environment. Man and environment are closely intertwined with each other, to maintain a balance or equilibrium in nature. Different groups of people working...

Transitions Of Reptiles To Mammals

Science & Nature · 2,989 words

• A long long time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, was a little blue planet called Earth, and on this world not a single mammal lived. However a lot of time has past since then and we now have lots of furry creatures that are collectively called mammals. How did they get their? Where did they...

Air Pollution

Science & Nature · 883 words

• occurs when wastes dirty the make the air dirty. People produce most of the waste that cause . Such waste can be in the form of gases or be particulates (particles of solid or liquid manner). These substance result chiefly from burning fuel to power motor vehicles and to heat buildings. ...