In addition, humus supplies plant nutrients. ... The plants are damaged and any animals that eat the plants will absorb the poisons, which will remain in the animals body and can hurt them or even kill them. ... So acid rain is good for some plants in some places with alkaline soil because some of the plants want acid. ... Highly alkaline or acid soils can harm many plants. ... They classify the soils according to the characteristics of a polypedon. ...

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Plants and animals are living, but animals and human are the first things that humans identify as living. ... Fire meets a few of these qualities, but for anything to be living it must exhibit all eight characteristics of life. ...

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Cell breath eventually makes carbon dioxide, which is acknowledged by plants and experiences photosynthesis. ... However not just living life forms experience cell breath, plants likewise experience cell breath. ... Another would be that all plants develop towards the sun. But then another would be the staying characteristics of vines, which help little plants without solid stems to get closer to the sun than they could all alone. ... However not just living life forms experience cell breath, plants likewise experience cell breath. ...

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It can also damage plants and buildings. ... Zooplankton (Phyto=plant Zoo=animal) feed upon the phytoplankton so any reduction in phytoplankton will ultimately lead to a reduction in zooplankton. Both phytoplankton and zooplankton are highly sensitive to UV radiation, as they lack the protective UV-B absorbing layers that higher forms of plants and animals have. ... Cynobacteria transform dissolved nitrogen in ocean water nitrates and other forms that are accessible by higher plants. ... Chlorofluorocarbons and replacement substances also enter into the climate picture because of their rad...

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It can also damage plants and buildings. ... Zooplankton (Phyto=plant Zoo=animal) feed upon the phytoplankton so any reduction in phytoplankton will ultimately lead to a reduction in zooplankton. Both phytoplankton and zooplankton are highly sensitive to UV radiation, as they lack the protective UV-B absorbing layers that higher forms of plants and animals have. ... Cynobacteria transform dissolved nitrogen in ocean water nitrates and other forms that are accessible by higher plants. ... Chlorofluorocarbons and replacement substances also enter into the climate picture because of their rad...

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In a warmer body of water, the addition of heat changes the body of waters characteristics and may make it less suited to species that are living in that ecosystem. ... The landfill is covered with soil, and then planted on with various kinds of vegetation. ... For example if a plant was sprayed with a pesticide, and a small animal eats the plant, they now have the pesticide in them. As a larger animal eats the small plant-eating animal, the pesticide becomes concentrated, causing problems. ... This happens because the pesticides destroy populations of predatory insects that had previously kep...

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The rock or soil, which may have been blue or grey in colour (characteristic of a deficiency of oxygen), is discoloured into a reddish-brown- a process better known as rusting. ... Natural change happens as a result of climatic and geological processes, and the migration of animals and plants....

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