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The landscape I observed and studied was my front yard. Some of the features are next to the house. There are five tall evergreen trees. There are also areas that have mulch in them that have plants and trees. The landscape I studied had an open space approach. One way I would improve the landscapeContinue reading “The Landscape I Studied And What I Will Do With It  “

One of the ways meteorologists measure rains is the rain gauge. The way it works is the rain water will drip into a bottle. Then they will put it inside of a measurer beaker. That will tell them how many inches of rainfall has fallen in that area. One of the other ways to find out the weather atContinue reading “How Meteorologists Find Out The Weather”

The three stages of thunderstorms are the towering cumulus stage, the mature stage, and the dissipating stage. If a storm has hail one inch thick, wind over 58 miles per hour, or a tornado it is considered a thunderstorm. Some clues that it is a severe thunderstorm are that it has a overshooting top, itContinue reading “thunderstorms and how to identify them”

I like oranges because they are sweet and they are also high in Vitamin C. The genus and family are citrus and rutaceae. they occur every year so they are annual. It produces a edible fruit and lastly it can be found all over the world

Canada geese are common. Baby geese swim in a V-formation and adults fly in a V-formation to save energy. The lead position is difficult because of wind resistance. They migrate every spring and fall. There could be hundreds of thousands of them at one pit stop.

Male mallard ducks have a green head. Females are all brown. Mallards are not hard to spot because they are common. They flap quickly. Mallard ducks are called dabbling ducks. The ducklings when they are a day old have to jump from a tree into the water. 

Barn owls live on the bottom of the world. They have a heart shaped face and they do not like dogs. They hiss and scream, but their scream sound like a screech. Some barn owls are mobbed during the day. They are the most common owls in the world.  

Snowy owls are white with some black. Their eyes are yellow. They migrate sometimes. They live on top of the world like in Canada or Greenland. Snowy owls eat small rodents. They need to eat 7-12 of them per day, but they go forty days without food. 

Great horned owls have feathers that look like ears. Owls have binocular vision and sometimes super hearing. Young owls are vulnerable. Owls survive up to 30 years in captivity. They eat mice. They can also fly silently