Category Archives: HOW?
74.HOW DOES NATURE SCATTER SEEDS?
A seed, as you know, is one of the ways in which a plant produces another plant of its own kind. But seeds need special conditions to grow. They need moisture, oxygen, and warmth. If a seed doesn’t start to grow within a certain time, the seed will die.
So it’s pretty important for a seed to get to the right place in the right time. Luckily, there are at least eight different ways for seeds to be scattered. Let’s take a look at each one.
73.HOW DOES A TREE BECOME LUMBER?
Lumbering was one of the earliest industries to be started in America. In fact, there is a legend that Leif Ericson, who was supposed to have visited North America about the year 1000, brought back a cargo of timber from the new world! We do know that one of the first products shipped to England from the Jamestown colony was timber from the Virginia forests.
There are many trees used for building and other purposes. The leading softwood trees include pine, Douglas fir, hemlock, spruce, white fir, cypress, and redwood. Hardwood timber or lumber used for furniture making, flooring, and certain other special purposes comes from such trees as oak, gum, maple, poplar, and walnut.
72.HOW DO PEANUTS GROW?
When you look at the unopened pod of the peanut, you can see that it closely resembles the pea or bean. In fact, it belongs to the same family. The peanut plant is a bush, and its blossoms resemble those of the pea.
After the petals fade, a part of the pod elongates very greatly and its tip becomes buried in the soil. There this tip enlarges and the seeds mature. So if you want to gather peanuts, you have to dig them out of the soil!
