Sentences with phrase «as desert environments»

As well as desert environments focusing on North Africa and the Kalahari Desert.

Not exact matches

Biosphere 2, a massive science facility tucked away in the desert foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, was built originally for controversial space exploration experiments (such as whether astronauts could survive in a closed environment for two years).

For millions of years, our ancestors relied on innovation and cooperation to get enough food, to help care for one another's children, and to survive in hostile environments, such as deserts, tundras, and jungles.

Field studies of extreme environments, such as the martianlike Atacama Desert in Chile or the Arctic waters, might turn up organisms with a biochemistry vastly different from our own.

In addition, as plants spread into unpredictable environments such as arid deserts they grew less dependent on the symbiotic fungi — or mycorrhiza — that colonize roots and help host plants obtain the essential plant nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus.

Just as prototypes for NASA's Mars rovers made their trial runs on Earth's deserts, researchers are testing both hypotheses and technology on our oceans and extreme environments.

As someone who grew up primarily in a desert environment, I'm looking forward to some dry, arid heat and blazing, pink sunsets (god, I miss those sunsets!).

Ghostbot co-founder and Forces of Destiny director Brad Rau tells StarWars.com they worked with Dave Filoni to find a look for the nightwatcher: «Filoni wanted it to appear as though it could believably survive the harsh desert environment of Jakku, and at the same time feel true to the diverse creature aesthetic of the Star Wars universe.

The DLC will introduce the Aranoi Desert as a new environment and a whole new plot arc with additional quests, enemies and loot, as well as raising the level cap from 30 to 35.

Fill in your map as you chart a range of environments, from lush jungle to arid desert or icy tundra, there are millions of different islands to discover.

The issues of water conservation and threatened wildlife are major problems for the Sonoran Desert environment as more and more people settle in the «valley of the sun.»

But at Desert Trails, a group of headstrong moms might just be able to use the Trigger as a tool to rise out of those cliched trenches — and instead make the debate about the ideal learning environment for California's frighteningly undereducated kids.

Because they're bred to thrive in a desert environment, they don't do as well in colder climates.

Given her small stature of only 8 pounds, we appreciate the convenience of an inside potty as we live in an open desert environment frequented by raptors, so she is never outside by herself.

In its natural environment, as it scurries across the desert floor looking for food, hamsters and other rodents are easy targets for wild birds overhead.

Also, as dwarf hamsters originate from a desert environment, too much fresh food that's high in water content can cause diarrhea.

You will of course want to bring a camera, as well, but keep in mind that the desert environment is not really the best for electronic equipment.

Nearly two times as large as the other Hawaiian Islands combined, it offers stunning beaches, world - class golf courses, rainforests ideal training environments for triathletes, high - country deserts, cowboys and cattle ranches, artist communities, coffee plantations, the continually erupting Kilauea volcano and even snow and winter skiing on the state's tallest mountain, Mauna Kea.

Dite, this hellish environment, is a desert wasteland occupied by crystal - headed zombies known as Wanderers.

As confirmed by EA, players will be taking their troops through a number of different environments throughout the game, including military bases, deserts, arctic tundra, and deserts in true Joe fashion.

Different areas, such as the fast - paced Zoomtown, the dry sands of Desert Drift, and the icy Arctic Rim all deliver high speed thrills in different, dazzling environments.

The environment design is faithful to the subject matter as it includes iconic environments from Star Wars films such as the remote desert planet of Jakku and the ice planet of Starkiller Base containing a deadly energy weapon within the core of the planet, while a new feature which generally sets environments apart from this game in comparison to other LEGO games is the introduction of multi-build paths that effectively allows players to build an object to complete a new objective or reach a new area, dismantle it, then re-build it as an alternative object in order to complete another new objective or reach another new area.

Son of Nor is set in the world of Noshrac, a harsh, desert environment where mankind's last vestige is an enclave known as The Edge.

Players will explore beautiful environments on a deserted island as «a powerful story of love, loss, guilt, and redemption» unfolds before them.

Each archipelago have different types of environments, such as a desert island or a snow covered island, but as I stated, many of the features on these islands will be the same.

This is all based on that early footage we saw, which shows areas with lots to see and do (like in Mario 64 and Sunshine) as well as suspicious traces of ice and snow in what should otherwise be a desert environment.

As the survivor of a mysterious experiment on board a deserted space station, the player makes their way through an intricate warren of once - occupied environments — research lab, living quarters, vaulted lobbies, lush gardens — while dodging the shapeshifting Typhons, nightmarish creatures that have taken control of the place.

As the environment changed from lush fields to a desolate rain - filled desert, his daugther turns to ash in his hands.

But what stands out most, though, is how alive the environments seem even though they're deserted: You can watch leaves fall to the ground as you walk through clusters of trees; you can see heat distortion over pipes in the Otherworld; flies buzz noisily over rotten food; and rays of light shine through grimy windows within the darkened buildings.

As a futuristic shooter, all maps are sci - fi themed in a world where technology is advanced, but not all that futuristic on the terrains where deserts, ice and grassy environments still exist to vary the look and atmosphere within each map.

The game world will include a wide variety of environments such as forests, deserts, mountains and salt flats.

It actually serves a practical purpose, too, as it helps Link stay cool in the game's arid desert environment: Failure to dress properly in hot or cold areas will result in death in Breath of the Wild.

The significance of place, and the impact of living in a desert environment, is reflected in works by many of the state's most respected artists, such as Saskia Jorda, recipient of Phoenix Art Museum's 2015 Contemporary Forum Artist Award.

The conflation of these approaches takes place in an exhibition environment: one that includes photographic prints and readymade objects taken from the actual location of Amboy, a ghost town in the Mojave desert that serves as the central location of the film.

As we've reported before, Australian permaculture practitioner Geoff Lawton has been aiming to fix that, developing demonstration permaculture projects specifically designed for dry land desert environments.

«Cacti, such as the saguaro, have rough exterior skins that can handle the intense environment while the interior plant flesh is often soft and wet, designed to hold moisture and the essentials for desert survival.»

«Throughout history humans not only weathered climate crises but deliberately flung ourselves into them as we migrated away from our African homeland into deserts, mountains, floodplains and taiga,» he writes, before embarking on an excursus into the striking cleverness of the Inuit in adapting to a hostile environment.

Many members of Caryophyllales are adapted structurally or physiologically to extreme environments such as deserts, high - alkaline soils, high - saline substrates, and nutrient - poor soils.

But it seems one of the best places to start for coming up with a winning concept is to mimic the plants and animals that can survive desert environments, such as, perhaps, the onymacris unguicularis or «fog - basking» beetle.

As long as people have been in the American West, we have found its barren desert landscapes to be an environment perfect for dumping and forgetting.&raquAs long as people have been in the American West, we have found its barren desert landscapes to be an environment perfect for dumping and forgetting.&raquas people have been in the American West, we have found its barren desert landscapes to be an environment perfect for dumping and forgetting.»

The consistently gorgeous environments spans verdant valleys, snowy forests and mountains, as well as wide - open desert and jungle areas.