Essays Tagged: "snails"

research paper about the possibility of time travel

some times called time dilation. (Encarta) As objects approach the speed of light, time slows to "a snails pace," at the speed of light time stops, and if the object could travel faster than the speed ...

(4 pages) 185 0 4.6 Aug/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Philisophical summary of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

determining blood types) to the successive alterations that led from the earliest protoorganism to snails, bees, giraffes, and dandelions." (Evolutionary Biology, Sinauer Associates 1986) The questio ...

(1 pages) 82 0 4.2 Sep/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Molluscs to three different aquatic biomes.

nical, ecological, physiological, and behavioural studies (Little, 1990)Within the phylum Mollusca, snails and slugs make up the largest molluscan group, and have therefore been studied most extensive ... ve structures. Most molluscs have separate sexes with gonads located in the visceral mass, but many snails are hermaphrodites.As mentioned the Molluscan group includes the most diverse groups of aquat ...

(9 pages) 78 1 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Snails - Makes a suitable short report or introduction to a lab report

SnailsThe snail is a Geophila in the class Gastropoda, subclass Pulmonata. Snails are in the Mollusc ... e word "Gastropod" means stomach-foot, because the foot of a gastropod is located near its stomach. Snails eat with a tongue-like organs called radulae. They are lined with small 'teeth' that help the ... f surfaces. The recurved 'tooth' on the radula is hardened with iron and silicon oxides at its tip. Snails eat mostly living as well as decaying plants.The snail moves on a broad, slimy foot that ooze ...

(1 pages) 20 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Same Sex Marriages

re meant to marry from the same sex then perhaps godshould have created us a one sexed species like snails. Some countries are starting tolegalize same sex marriages, the married couple are starting t ...

(4 pages) 91 2 4.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Hedgehog

r long and it will rise from its nest of dry leaves to hunt for food.The hedgehog will eat insects, snails, mice, birds, frogs, lizards, and snakes. It will only stay in its territory to hunt and will ...

(1 pages) 2093 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The Hedgehog

it will rise from its nest of dry leaves to hunt for food. The hedgehog will eat insects, snails, mice, birds, frogs, lizards, and snakes. It will only stay in its territory to hunt and will ...

(1 pages) 1833 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

crayfish

and they search for food at night. Their diet at Rice Creek, as well as around the world, includes snails, oligochaetes, small fish; such as minnow, guppies, and goldfish; aquatic insects, aquatic pl ...

(4 pages) 2236 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Discuss Piaget's account of cognitive development in the preoperational stage.

embers of the category. Piaget demonstrated this through an example, where his son sees two similar snails a short distance from each other, but believes that they are the same snail. (Le Francois, 20 ...

(5 pages) 76 0 5.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Character Analysis of Elisa Allen: "The Chrysanthemums"

n her life, Elisa brings motherly protection and comfort to her precious flowers. Aphids, snowbugs, snails and cutworms do not harm the chrysanthemums “her terrier fingers destroyed such pests be ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

You Are What You Eat

ods eaten by these cultures sound nauseating. According to Henslin, J. M., (2009) the French thinks snails are a good food to eat. Dogs and cats are eaten by some of the Asian cultures. Japan likes to ... oodsI live in the U. S. and I have never eaten frog legs that sound disgusting. The sound of eating snails makes me sick. I do not want a dog or cat so why would I eat them. The thought of eating cod ...

(3 pages) 45 1 5.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology