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Jul 21, 2017 · Plants provide a global benefit to animals by releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. Although pollination and food chains affect only a few local plants and animals, they frequently overlap to form larger food webs that contain hundreds or even thousands of wildlife species.
- Animals of The Ecosystem
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- The Effects of Industrialization on Animals
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- What is a Biogeochemical Cycle
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- Characteristics of The Ecosystem
Whether underwater in a tropical reef, deep in a lush...
- Description of an Ecosystem
Examples of abiotic components include water, soil, air,...
- Animals of The Ecosystem
- Food Plants
- Medicinal Plants
- Utility Plants
- Spiritual Importance
Before the arrival of Europeans to what is now Canada, Indigenous peoples practised the cultivation of food crops in a variety of fertile areas. In terms of scale, this cultivation was at its most elaborate in Southern Ontario and the St. Lawrence Lowland. Crops included the “Three Sisters” — corn, beans and squash — as well as sunflowers, tobaccoa...
Plants were, and still are, an important component of Indigenous medicine. Herbal specialists were usually responsible for curing disease and maintaining health. Although administering herbal medicines was sometimes associated with ritual and in many cultures herbal curing and magical curing were virtually inseparable, these specialists were not ne...
Wood was an important fuel, and as a major component of utilitarian items: buildings, dugout canoes, boxes, totem polesand implements like paddles, digging sticks, spear shafts, bows, arrows, and snowshoe frames. Indigenous peoples turned sheets of bark, especially birch, into containers and canoes. They also used bark to cover roofs and line stora...
By representing a spiritual connection with the earth, many plants provide more than just corporeal or utilitarian benefits. For example, the Haudenosauneehold several ceremonies — like the Sap, Seed, Strawberry, Bean, and Green Corn ceremonies — that honour the interconnectivity of plant and human life. Tobacco is of major importance to many peopl...
Nov 3, 2023 · By understanding natural selection, we can learn why some plants produce cyanide, why rabbits produce so many offspring, how animals first emerged from the ocean to live on land, and how some mammals eventually went back again.
- Ed Grabianowski
Feb 2, 2023 · Fertile soil and pollination are made stronger because of biodiversity. When an area is less diverse, these resources get weaker as well. The world around us is so diverse and it's beautiful. There are plants and animals of all kinds, lush natural spaces, oceans, beaches, and more.
- Kori Williams
Ponds are crucial habitat for a great diversity of plants and animals. Discover aquatic creatures that live in this freshwater habitat and other species that visit to feed, drink, bathe and breed. Discover how ponds form naturally, the threats this habitat is facing and why garden ponds are so important.
Biodiversity is all the different kinds of life you’ll find in one area—the variety of animals, plants, fungi, and even microorganisms like bacteria that make up our natural world. Each of these species and organisms work together in ecosystems, like an intricate web, to maintain balance and support life. Biodiversity supports everything in ...
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Oct 14, 2021 · The honeybee may be the best-known pollinator of plants, but there are thousands of pollinator species, including other bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies and even some birds and mammals....
