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What effect does temperature have on algae or/and marine plants? For a biology experiment i'm planning on finding out the affect of climate change on algae or marine plants. I'm unsure how heat will affect these two types of organisms.
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Asked by Blastshady
on 2010-01-29 20:15:09

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Categories: Planet Earth.

Tags: animals, plants, planetearth, climatechange.

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Do birds suffer from vertigo?
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Asked by titch123
on 2010-01-20 18:18:20

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Categories: Animals.

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Why don't slugs go backwards?

When you put a slug or snail on a sheet of glass and look at it's muscular foot from beneath, you see waves of dark and light bands moving from the back of the slug to its front. I understand that these are muscular contractions that move in waves to propel the slug, but if they are moving from the rear of the slug to the front, shouldn't the slug be propelled backwards (ie - in the opposite direction to the motive force)?

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Asked by ReedRichards
on 2009-12-24 11:52:09

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Last edited on: 2009-12-24 12:10:59

Categories: Animals.

Tags: animals, snails, Mollusc, slug, SlugLocomotion.

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Are animals able to communicate with each other by their voices, or is there like humans, a form of language barrier?

I was sitting outside today and couldn't help overhearing two species of birds singing back to each other. I could tell that they were different species (one was a Tui) but they seemed like they were having a loud conversation across my yard.

It got me thinking... Is a certain animal species able to speak/sing to other species of animals which aren't the same as it?

Does anyone have an answer to end my wondering?

Thanks

Liam :)

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Asked by Liam
on 2009-12-22 00:31:47

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Categories: Animals.

Tags: language, animal, communication, speak, singing, tui.

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Why aren't primates found outside of the tropics (except for us)?
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Asked by MM
on 2009-12-02 22:08:34

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Categories: Animals.

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Why do I live longer than a cat, but a cat lives longer than a bird, but a bird lives longer than an insect? Does life span actually matter to animals, and why do we all live for different periods of time? Does a beetle's life feel quicker, or what? Why has evolution made us like this?
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Asked by zbackhouse
on 2009-11-28 09:16:13

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Categories: Animals.

Tags: animals, evolution, human, Lifespan.

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Why is it that it is easier to open a new plasic bag if we first moisten our fingers ?
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Asked by S2567796Z
on 2009-11-26 15:53:59

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Last edited on: 2009-12-07 18:48:21

Categories: Technology.

Tags: animals, technology, humanbody, environment, domesticscience.

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At what point did the most species live on earth? I recently read that during a change in earth's climate 70 per cent of the creatures became extinct. If we can predict this can we predict how many species were alive, for example do we know at what point the most species lived on the earth? Surely it is not now.
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Asked by armyduck
on 2009-11-22 12:35:02

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Categories: Planet Earth.

Tags: animals, plants, Earth, planetearth, species.

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Do insects eat worms?
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Asked by georginakang
on 2009-10-18 17:54:04

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Categories: Animals.

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Why is cooked pork white yet cooked ham pink? They come from the same animal.
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Asked by armyduck
on 2009-10-18 12:03:52