Sentences with phrase «plants and animals living»

This assessment is due to 4 primary factors: First, laboratory work shows there is no basis to predict the demise of shelled plants and animals living in the sea.

Clouds hover in and around the forests most of the year, supplying moisture to a bounty of plants and animals living below.

Seems odd to think of ancient tropical plants and animals living where nothing can survive today.

As the book points out: «Plants and animals living in crowded conditions, as on reefs and in rainforests, often produce poisons to fight off competitors,» and these poisons can be turned to good pharmacological use.

By describing the structure of these webs, scientists can predict how plants and animals living in an ecosystem will respond to change.

747s didn't evolve, but plant and animal life did.

More importantly a relatively fast global flood as described in Genesis would have left fairly unmistakable indicators in the geologic records, e.g. a single layer of a massive world - wide die - off of the entire land - base plant and animal life in existence followed by a common period of re-expansion of land - based life from a single location.

A thin layer of living cells spread out in two dimensions over the globe could accomplish little; but concentrated in three - dimensional forms, cells constitute the vast and varied world of plant and animal life.

No, I mean, «a single layer of a massive world - wide die - off of the entire land - base plant and animal life in existence followed by a common period of re-expansion of land - based life from a single location.»

As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

Rapid global warming will have complex effects on plant and animal life that can not be predicted in detail.

Unless, of course, there was a major disaster that rapidly buried all sorts of plant and animal life under extreme pressure, in which case science would allow for fossil fuels to develop in such a circu.mstance (as evidenced in the Mt. St Helens eruption)... but said disaster never occured in the bible, did it?

When Loren Eiseley describes the process of evolution of plant and animal life struggling through the hot, red winds of the young earth, and when space shots send back data from the Moon and Mars, our cosmic vision expands.

Additionally, the horror would include catastrophic biological aftereffects from probable destruction of the ozone layer and a nuclear winter likely to end all plant and animal life on earth.

Life on this planet has, in the context of its limitations, managed a threefold success: plant and animal life, and among the animals, arthropods (including social insects) and vertebrates (including humankind.

Nature Foundation SA has begun pumping Commonwealth environmental water on to the floodplains and wetlands that support vulnerable plant and animal life near the Murray River National Park and downstream of Chowilla floodplain in South Australia's Riverland.

This will mean that Commonwealth environmental water will be used to protect habitat such as permanent waterholes that support the survival of water dependent populations of native plants and animal life,» he said.

Providing a wide range of plant and animal life, in wild and cultivated areas — which protect biodiversity and the health of the ecosystem — allows farms to be fully integrated into the natural world.

Residents also said the plan, which includes a wood - chip path, would disrupt plant and animal life and might attract loitering and vandalism.

These biogeographical attributes are known to have created the complex and rich environment of habitats that supported the evolution of its fantastically wide range of plant and animal lives.

The slow churn of plate tectonics pulls crust into the interior, where any plant and animal life in it gets trapped and cooked.

The Earth's climate system is characterised by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).

Stuebing realized that the network of undisturbed patches could serve as a haven for native plant and animal life.

Poinar is an international expert in using plant and animal life forms preserved in this semi-precious stone to help learn more about the biology and ecology of the distant past.

«Ticks and the bacteria they carry are very opportunistic,» said George Poinar, Jr., a professor emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology of the OSU College of Science, and one of the world's leading experts on plant and animal life forms found preserved in amber.

He wonders whether megaplumes carry the gases of an eruption, such as carbon dioxide and methane and helium 3, as well as minerals such as sulfur and iron, to upper layers of the ocean where most plant and animal life resides.

These designations are a testament to the island's rich diversity of plant and animal life, some of which found its way here thousands of years ago.

After breakfast, board our guided tour boat for a half - day journey through further canals and lagoons, and along the spectacular seashore — all within the diverse habitats of Tortuguero, where Caribbean sunshine and tropical rains give rise to an incredible profusion of plant and animal life.

They found, where forests had been cleared for cattle ranching and agriculture, plant and animal life was impoverished and remaining species invariably consisted of the same subset of the original flora and fauna.

WHILE Russia is encouraging people to settIe on the remote and foggy Kuril Islands, a team of American biologists is aiming to get there first — to survey the plant and animal life of the islands before a development boom takes hold.

You can also learn about the real - world plant and animal life that inspired Avatar's fictional flora and fauna, peer inside the Armored Mobility Platform suit that was used in combat scenes, and examine the filmmakers» models of Na» vi characters and their costumes.

«This put a lot of stress on plant and animal life,» says archaeologist Steve Kuhn of the University of Arizona.

The purpose of boreal forest reserves like Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell Nature Reserve in Southern Norway is to preserve natural forests as ecosystems — including the natural plant and animal life, and the natural processes that belong.

Star A's late spectral type and dim luminosity puts it possibly close to the lower limit of habitability for (multicellular) Earth - type plant and animal life, given the redness of its light and the increased risk of tidal locking from the closeness of the orbit necessary for liquid water on a planetary surface.

«Water quality is of great concern to California's Tribal governments not only for personal consumption, but also for the long term health and restoration of cultural habitats for traditional plants and animal life, ecosystems for healthy fish population, and access to traditional plants for food and ceremonial use,» adds Anecita Agustinez, a Tribal Policy Advisor at California's Department of Water Resources.

Freely adapted from the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's «Southern Reach» trilogy, Garland's movie tracks an expedition into a swamp where an enormous translucent canopy called «the Shimmer» has descended, inexplicably warping all plant and animal life in the vicinity.

It even has mutated the plant and animal life there — the bulb from the rare flower that gives T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) his power seems infused with vibranium energy.

It's sort of like a bubble that mutates all plant and animal life within it.

What they find on the other side is a treacherously changed wilderness, where all plant and animal life has entered a state of constant mutation.

Technically and dramatically much weaker than most slick science - fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.

A range of plant and animal life cycles are included, such as a cherry tomato plant, pear tree, ladybird, frog, dog, chicken and human!

They love talking about the plant and animal life that surround our school and often spend their free time looking for bird or animal tracks.

What effect, if any, does the shadow caused by overhanging foliage have on the plant and animal life in a river?

Encourage them to find information about the average temperature, rainfall, humidity and other environmental factors as well as what plants and animals live there.

It's an explorer's dream, with deciduous rain forests, babbling estuaries, and plant and animal life galore.

In what more than a few think looks like a hostage video, the couple talks about the importance of Australia's strict biosecurity laws — aimed at preserving the islands diverse plant and animal life.

First, there's the nearby lake and residences — potential sources of pollution that could affect nearby plant and animal life.

Look for symbioses, predator / prey and other relationships between aquatic plant and animal life.

This spectacular section of wild coastline is a treasure - trove of geological and cultural sites (see future blogs on Maha`ulepu trails, places, plants and animal life).