.... growth and resource consumption (17). Today, most of the world's habitats are changing faster than most species can adapt to such changes through evolution, or natural selection. The current global extinction rate is estimated at about 20,000 species per year, exponentially greater than the background extinction rate (17). Many biologists believe that we are in the middle of the greatest mass extinction episode since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (18). The survival of ecosystems (plant and animal communities and their physical .....

.... of the capillary column. The gas chromatograph offers rapid and very high-resolution separations of a very wide range of compounds, with the only restriction that the analyzed substance needs to have sufficient volatility. The theory behind the mass spectrometer is to use the difference in mass-to-charge ratio (m/e) of ionized atoms or molecules to separate them from each other. Mass spectrometry is therefore useful for quantitation of atoms or molecules and also for determining chemical and structural information about molecules. Molecules have distinctiv .....

.... away anymore, now it must be managed. Managing our trash is the "in thing", yet it is hardly convenient. Lets face the facts, sealed toxins "won't affect us for a good twenty years". Although this may be true, there are still many advantages to waste management. Today, more people are in favour of companies who invest in "green products". As a result, companies have removed phosphates, bleaches, and have made their paper products out of recycled papers. At home, families, are saving things, like leftovers, and making sandwiches for the next day. Industries are also manufacturing most of their christma .....

.... nonrenewable resources). It is unfortunate that only a small part of our geothermal resources are being used today. Hot water, at temperatures between 300 and 700 degrees Fahrenheit, is brought from an underground reservoir to the surface and is converted to steam by using changes in pressure. The steam and liquid are separated, with the steam turning turbines (generating electricity) and the water is injected back into the reservoir to maintain the chamber's pressure. Sometimes the hot water is used directly for home, and sometimes greenhouse, heating. .....

.... do more harm than good. The act of keeping feelings inside tends to create a “pressurized” effect on the brain, overloading the psyche with pent-up “garbage”. As is the case in any good romance movie, the onlooker with bottled emotions waits until the end to release everything, dramatically and emotionally releasing all her pressurized tensions. Sure, Hollywood is not the best place to get your life morals, but a lesson really can be learned here, and the same lesson can be applied to the big question at hand. “Why does he act so gay?” By now you may be reali .....

.... area to volume ratios in plants. It is observed that plants in moist environments have more lush, larger foliage, while plants inhabiting desert conditions are generally smaller and have less photosynthetic surface areas. Hypothesis: Alternative Hypothesis: states the hypothesis being tested in this experiment. Photosynthetic structures of plants adapted to arid environments have a lower surface area to volume ratio than plants adapted to less dry or moist environments. Null hypothesis: there are no differences between the wet and dry habitat plan .....

.... first fully terrestrial vertebrates. The earliest tetrapod known is Acanthostega. It is also considered the most primitive tetrapod. It is very close to its fish ancestry, but still anatomically far from its terrestrial relatives. These creatures still lived in water, but they had a lot of the terrestrial tetrapod anatomical characteristics. Introduction: Before tetrapods existed, all vertebrates were confined to living in aquatic habitats. The only animals that lived on land were arthropods. Through natural adaptations, the fish developed into amphibians. Th .....

.... is Tigris Altaica. The Siberian Tiger is a mobile creature and it lives in northern Asia and is found as for north as the Arctic Circle. It's territory is more than four thousand square miles and it will keep that territory indefinitely, as long as the food supply lasts. The Siberian Tiger hunts very much but only about one tenth of the hunts are successful. It requires more than twenty pounds of meat per day. It is heterotrophic and it's diet consists mainly of deer, boar, bear and fish. The Siberian Tiger is a solitary animal. Males and females are only together during mating se .....