By Andrew Solway
Contents
What Are Habitats?
How Do Habitats Work?
What Is the most important Biome?
What Is an important Land Habitat?
What Is the most important Land Habitat?
Why Are Grasses Such profitable Plants?
What Are the main severe Habitats?
What Makes Mountain Habitats Different?
Why Are Island Habitats So Special?
What Are neighborhood Habitats?
How Small Can a Habitat Be?
How Do people have an effect on Habitats?
How do we shop Disappearing Habitats?
Glossary
Further Information
Index
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This should be underlined with a wavy line. Write in full sentences and narrate what you observed. Only write on one side of a sheet. Use the opposing page for sketches, maps, or photos (taped onto the page). Underline species names. Use straight lines for scientific names (Genus species) and wavy lines for common names (this helps in scanning your journal for observations). Compile a species list at the end of the written description of the day’s events. , birds, plants in flower, rocks). Include maps (pasted into your journal, or drawn) that show locations of your route and/or activities.
Finally, the binomial Rattus norvegicus designates uniquely one species of brown rat, sometimes referred to as the Norwegian sewer rat, and excludes its close relative the black rat. 22 | California Natural History Some species have been further divided into multiple subspecies to allow scientists to distinguish differences between similar groups of individuals within one species. Subspecies can usually interbreed and produce viable offspring. Examples of two you know are Canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog, and the Australian dingo Canis lupus dingo.
Our hypothetical plant will still be excluded. We are all familiar with this phenomenon because we hear news reports every 7 or 8 years of the citrus crop in Florida or California being wiped out by a cold snap. Occasional cold snaps interrupt fruit production in oranges and grapefruits. Even more extreme, California Natural History | 25 every 20 to 50 years we hear about the citrus trees themselves being killed. Citrus growers push the limits of the temperature tolerance of the trees they cultivate, and periodically they pay the price.