Sentences with phrase «tiny plants feed»

Not long afterward, Bang partnered with Penny Chisholm, an ecology professor at MIT, to write the next title in the Sunlight series, Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life (2009), followed by Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas (2012), and Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth (2014).

For example, while reading aloud Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas, pause to record with students the details learned about the importance of plankton in the ocean's ecosystem and on earth in general.

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas.

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When eggs hatch, the tiny caterpillars chew their way into the flower ovary and start feeding on the plant's own seeds.

For the experiments, UF and USDA researchers brought two types of thrips — tiny insects that often feed on plants — from Brazil to Florida laboratories.

The coal mines that are opening are tiny and many of them will be producing metallurgical coal for the steel industry, not feeding coal - fired electric power plants for utilities.

After the tiny heroes battled it out, the superstar got to play the minigame Feed and Seed in order to defeat the Piranha Plant.

Tiny plants, like phytoplankton, should prosper, but that could lead to enormous growth in larger species that feed on the little guys, thus throwing off the balance of nature.

Large patches of tiny plants and animals that they feed on will likely move or change in abundance as climate change alters seawater temperature, winds and ocean currents.

What keeps soils alive, and productive, is the compost or humus of leaf litter, animal dung, withered roots and other decaying vegetation in the first metre or so of topsoil: this in turn feeds an invisible army of tiny creatures that recycle the nutrient elements for the next generation of plant life.

Blooms can be a blessing to other marine species, as these tiny floating plants often feed everything from zooplankton to fish to whales.