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Breaking New Ground What makes plants grow?(Breaking New Ground) Maybe you’d like to ask this young gardener, “What’s your secret?” Well, here’s what he’d tell you, “Secrets? Forget it! Growing sweet peppers isn’t a big mystery. Pepper plants need six things. Supply them with these needs and you’ll harvest a basketful of sweet, red peppers!” … Read more
The Talking Planet What’s the flower telling the butterfly? While scientists continue to explore the idea of plants “talking” to other plants, they know that plants do “talk” to insects. Plants produce chemical signals that contain important messages. A smell is a message. Flowers attract insects with fragrances that say, “Here’s food for you.” Butterflies … Read more
Picture pushing a block of clay against a wall. The clay next to the wall would be crunched upward.. The area behind where it was pushed up would buckle downward. That corresponds to the formation of the Amazon Basin, a depression in the earth that runs the length of South America east of the Andes.. … Read more
The structure of an Insects The fundamental difference in the structure of an insect and that of a bird or mammal is that an insect is an invertebrate—that is, it has no backbone or bone structure of any kind. The strength of the body lies in the exoskeleton which is soft in a few cases, … Read more