Essays Tagged: "burrow"
Orthoptera
d then seen. Usuallycolored green these slender crickets live in shrubs and trees. Mole Cricketscan burrow rapidly through moist soil. They also can live in caves, hollowlogs, beneath stones, and othe ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The Earthworm Study
rden soil. It restricts its above-ground activities to the night time. Even than it never leaves it burrow completely, it fastens its posterior end firmly into the hole where it can re-enter the hole ... ive in very hot or very cold weather?In very cold or hot weather, the worm plugs the opening of the burrow and retires deep in the earth. Several worms may collect and roll themselves into a ball, rem ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
An The Vancouver Island Marmot is the species in question.
mals in the area of danger (Bryant 1990). The Vancouver Island marmot will choose an area for their burrow which has large rocks to use for both a lookout post to watch out for dangers and to regulate ... t of their hibernation around late April or early May. Vancouver Island marmot pups remain near the burrow in which they were born for their first year and hibernate with their mother (Bryant 2001). Y ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Crayfish, The A complete classification, habitat, predator and prey, body plan, nervous system, circulatory system, digestive system, and respiratory system.
uggish streams. A suitable habitat is medium-sized streams containing riffles and rocky pools. They burrow very aggressively, burrowing to find warmth, moisture, and food or just to pass the time. In ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Clam, The
oida, Family is unionoidae.~ HabitatClam is a common name for many species of bivalve mollusks that burrow wholly or partly into sand or mud by means of a hatchet-shaped muscular foot. These creature' ... eature's habitats vary from salt water, to fresh water, or even land. Because this species does not burrow deeply, it may be obtained by raking the ocean bottom beyond the low-tide mark. It is found b ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The Hobbit
his favorite pleasures and he feels quite content in doing so. He is middle-aged, and resides in a burrow in the ground. One morning Gandalf, a wizard stops by to talk with Biblo. He tells Biblo that ... s Beorn, in bear form join the fray. The Wargs and goblins are defeated. Biblo later returns to his burrow under the hill with a chest of treasure, a ring of power, and a great story to tell. I liked ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Symbiosis: You Scratch My Back, and I'll Scratch Yours."
lived together, then the goby could "stand guard" while the pistol shrimp makes and maintains their burrow. The pistol shrimp uses its long antennas to communicate with the goby, so if the goby sudden ... shrimp uses its long antennas to communicate with the goby, so if the goby suddenly darts in to the burrow because it saw a predator, the pistol shrimp would quickly follow.This close partnership that ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"
stay here is the shortest ever as Dumbledore comes to Privet Drive to get Harry and take him to The Burrow, the home of his best friend Ron Weasley.A basic overview of the book: Once back at Hogwarts, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How seriously did the financial demands of the crown affect the Spanish economy?
rom the silver also went towards his 12million ducats of debt which Charles had accumulated through burrowing money. Martin Jones claims that "America never funded King Charles." This was because the ... lion. Brice said the "billion helped to finance Charles' wars." The bullion also allowed Charles to burrow from the Fuggers as they knew that even if he didn't have enough money to pay them back, he h ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History
"Journey of Vengeance." - imaginative science-fiction short story.
It was in the summer and the temperature was very high for a living creature to go out of its "Burrow" since the ozone layer had been destroyed a long time ago in the World War Six. Very soon af ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The Earthworm
arthworms senses take them to the location they are suited for, for that season. In the winter they burrow beneath the frost line. The earthworm has no backbone or appendages. If you feel the worm you ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Mantis Shrimp
a loud bang. The shrimp also uses its club to break rock it will do this as a way of extending its burrow or cave. The speed of the strike (up to 50 mph, or 23 m/s) creates cavitation bubbles between ... the most complex eyes in the animal kingdomSome mantis shrimp will spend most of their lives in one burrow or cave whereas other mantis will walk and swim around the reef floor these ones though will ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
The Hound of the Baskervilles Watson and Holmes: Emotional and Logical
it appears to him in his mind; "A cold wind swept down… On that desolate plain… in a burrow like a wild beast... Heart full of malignancy..."[61]. He goes into great detail about how he ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Hershey CSR
can actually be defined as a company's duty to contribute to the well-being of a community (Dlabay, Burrow and Kleindl, 2010), sustainable economic development (World Business Council for Sustainable ... ty- what does it mean?, viewed on 15 May 2012, www.mallenbaker.net/csr/definition.phpDlabay, L. R.; Burrow, J. L.; Kleindl, B. 2010, Business As Introduction, Asia edn., Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers