Sentences with phrase «plants covered the earth»

There's oxygen in our atmosphere that is the result of photosynthesis, but if that's what they're looking for, they could have found out that plants covered the Earth a billion, 2 billion years ago.

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4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

Researchers have captured in unprecedented detail a record of the plant life covering Earths surface.

Suck all those bugs out and they would cover thesurface of Earth with slime five feet thick — more than all the insects, plants, people, and everything else alive.

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little farther on, bare earth where the farmer has plowed under the residue of last summer's crop.

These plant communities cover large areas of the globe and function as animal habitats, hydrologic flow modulators, and soil conservers, constituting one of the most important aspects of the Earth's biosphere.

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

Using satellite data, the scientists then assessed how this new tree and plant cover would drive three climate feedbacks: water vapor in the air, carbon absorption by plants and the reflectivity of the Earth's surface.

The team's statistical analyses considered nearly 358,896 pairs of organisms in 80 plant or mammal communities on different continents, with data sets that collectively covered the last 300 million years of earth history — including data sets that spanned the huge Permian - Triassic extinction (the «Great Dying» 252 million years ago), the Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction of the dinosaurs (66 million years ago), and a period of rapid global climate change around 56 million years ago.

Although a rainforest covers only around 6 % of the earth, amazingly they account for 1/2 of the plants and animals found!

Because much of Earth's land mass is covered by plants, there is a large source of these biogenic aerosol particles that need to be accounted for in climate change prediction.

This cycle includes water beneath the Earth's surface and in rocks (lithosphere), the water in plants and animals (biosphere), the water covering the surface of the planet in liquid and solid forms, and the water in the atmosphere in the form of water vapor, clouds, and precipitation.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

The plants and insects cover the male faces — with Logan mostly using himself as the subject — in such a way that identifies man's relationship with nature and questions his place on Earth.

«Higher northern latitudes are getting warmer, Arctic sea ice and the duration of snow cover are diminishing, the growing season is getting longer and plants are growing more,» said Ranga Myneni of Boston University's Department of Earth and Environment.

yeah... maybe its time to acknowledge the positive effects of climate change... less death in the winter, longer growing seasons... increased vegetative cover for this good green earth, and stronger, healthier more productive plants.

If Salby's theory is correct, then the last time the earth was covered with glaciers, the level of CO2 fell low enough to extinguish all plant life.

Not to worry, because anywhere and everywhere that the earth is covered by water, the top 2 - 3 inches of that water (more depth and density when temperatures are higher) are covered with small green plants!

Although rainforests presently cover only about 2 percent of Earth's land, they harbor about half of the planet's terrestrial species, 18 and the tropics as a whole contain about two - thirds of all terrestrial animal and plant species (Pimm, 2001).

-- The next fall, grow a cover crop in the bed and practice the chop - and - drop method, cutting the plants at ground level and dropping the cut material in the bed to decompose and feed the earth.

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