Essays Tagged: "Bog"
Wetland protection in Minnesota.
pping your toes into the warm water off the end of the dock during the summer or marching through a bog on a school field trip to learn about native plants. Have you ever taken a biology course in whi ... an area of land that is also part of a watershed. U.S. wetlands are categorized by marshes, swamps, bogs, wet meadows, and seasonal basins (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). These categories are ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
A Morning in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
and cooks the milk. The steam adds to the clamminess of the kitchen for it already has an air of a bog. For a moment her routine surliness wavers towards amiable attention: a small brindled cat moves ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The peat debate: should peat bogs be utilised as a resource or conserved as rare natural habitats?
The peat debate: should peat bogs be utilised as a resource or conserved as rare natural habitats?IntroductionIn 1988 the Secreta ... peat extraction on a commercial scale (Lavers & Haines-Young, 1995).Background on peat:The peat bogs of Britain represent some of the very last remnants of this country's primeval landscape. Peatl ... l land-surface and a significant proportion lies in northern temperate Europe (Lindsay, 1993). Peat bogs cover 1.5 million hectares of Britain and 1.95 million hectares of Scotland, which accounts for ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Summer - Argumentative Essay
sky rocket to 40 C, they would really hate if the temperature was minus 40 C, as they would have to bog their bodies down with heavy clothes, scarves and mitts. While winter is cold, spring is usually ... st are exploring the different locations around our globe, and even if they aren't traveling a mind-boggling distance you can usually find them at a lake or out camping.This brings us to our next poin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The Return of King Arthur
to kill entire countries at once. The cause of these deaths has come to be commonly referred to as Bog.Bog is a creature not of this earth. Its origin is unknown; one day it was simply...there, killi ... the day, it sleeps but by night it stalks it prey, which is usually humans. By outward appearance, Bog is a black entity, which hangs ominously in the sky before striking. When first being viewed, it ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Reading Chills
ey made their way through the wet and slippery grass, walking counter-clockwise around the circular bog, studying its characteristics for a class project. The sky was gray, though there was not a clou ... aring lists of the characteristics they had found. Jack was insisting that his entry of listing the bog as "green" was alright, while Dana was telling him that their instructors had said to "be very s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Assignment on the bog bodies and what they tell us about the past
how and why . day top day things… food, tools invented etc.In Europe and Britain, in areas of boggy, marshy soil, several well-preserved bodies have been found. They were prevented from decaying ... reserved bodies have been found. They were prevented from decaying by the airless conditions of the bog. Due to their excellent preservation, they tell us many things about the past. We learn about pu ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History