PLEASE I NEED HELP FOR A SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT!!
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cacti spikes keep moisture near the plant as apse to protection, just thought you might want to know.
for a plant, long deep roots for better chance to get water from ground
for both some form of water storage be it physicly or chemically
some animals and plants have developed special skins and surfaces that can collect water on the wind and run the water down to the mouth or plants equivelent.
animals that can berry themselves is good
other features such as the camals foot that helps with walking on the sand
they need ways to keep cool in the hot
for a plant, long deep roots for better chance to get water from ground
for both some form of water storage be it physicly or chemically
some animals and plants have developed special skins and surfaces that can collect water on the wind and run the water down to the mouth or plants equivelent.
animals that can berry themselves is good
other features such as the camals foot that helps with walking on the sand
they need ways to keep cool in the hot
Perfect plant could be a silicon crystal that grows out of sand. The metabolism could be driven by PN junction surfaces that use nitrogen as a dopent. The silicon solvent could be peroxide or nitric acid formed from air and dew and an iron oxide catalyst, and capillary systems could flow via guard cells, just like plants.
It might grow slowly, but there would be no preditor or even conpeteing species
orignal, no?
It might grow slowly, but there would be no preditor or even conpeteing species
orignal, no?
A good thing to think of is size. An ant has far less problems with sand than a snake.
Honeytraps are also useful. Appear as something delicious and then when swallowed, lay your eggs and burrow out. Your sweet children will do the rest.
Honeytraps are also useful. Appear as something delicious and then when swallowed, lay your eggs and burrow out. Your sweet children will do the rest.
Original, but it'd have huge problems with desert winds. I was thinking of a similar idea but gave up on it because it would have no need to grow.ShineyMcShine said:
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-165 ... It's been done.Cherry Cola said:
Also felixdan1, do your own damn homework. You're at the computer ergo you have google and wikipedia at your fingertips, gateways into the largest compendia of human knowledge ever assembled. Your town almost certainly still has a library where you can go find books on biology if for some reason you don't HAVE school textbooks any more (said books will almost certainly have some mention of morphological adaptions for deserts, icebound areas, etc as this is fairly common curricular fodder), as well as more specialist ones dealing with desert life. They might even have a crusty old open-access PC and some CDROM copies of Encarta and other traditional encyclopaedias.
Hell, torrent relevant episodes of David Attenborough's "Life" or similar. Go ask your teacher for catch-up notes on the lessons you missed DUE TO ILLNESS (have a note from parent or even doctor if you can), if they refuse that then they're not doing their job properly and should complain to their head of department. Ask any friends you may have (hopefully??) in said class if you can read up on what they have and swap ideas with them - but don't plagiarise outright. There's only so many different things you can include on it anyway (mainly focussed around protection from sun, water retention, mobility/burrowing if it's a sandy desert which not all of them are, etc) so a fair bit of overlap is allowed if it looks like you've put your own work in.
Heaven's sake, does your school not have it's own VLE / intranet / etc that you can get help through, even download materials relevant to the lessons in question from? 3 lessons isn't much (and 3 days is plenty of time to brew up a suitable answer). I blew through much, much more than that at university - 10 years ago - and most of these were valid catch-up options even then.
But don't come asking strangers on a forum to do an everyday school assignment for you, that's lame and lazy (what if every sick kid did it for all assignments? chaos). All the above things will help you more.
Though of course you COULD go ask one of the chan sites' /b/ boards for suggestions... so long as you include EACH AND EVERY ONE of the things they suggest.
Edit: Oh, and tumbleweed that's actually a big mass of worms that near instantly consume any living, succulent plant or animal matter they happen to bump into as they roll along. How's that? Wierd worms that are halfway to arthropods because of their chitinous casings.
(Now that's got to be worthy of consideration of a minor SCP in itself...?)
Also: Grab-oids. It's been a long time since Tremors was out. You may be able to get away with it without your teacher realising what it is.
retains water or hydration (e.g. camel) Some sort of cooling mechanism (like a lizard opens its mouth). You could also make it a nocturnal creature in which case you need to make them see at night.felixdan1 said:at school im doing geography and i missed a few days due to gastro. i found out when i went back today that i have an assignment. the assignment is due in 3 days. basically i need ur help to come up with features for the perfect animal and plant to live in a desert. i have three so far so i will use one of them as an example
scales
- protects from spiky cacti and other animals
- reflects sun to stop overheating.
i then have to draw them and label the parts but i enjoy drawing so i dont mind this. its just trying to find enough info to make a creature and a plant after missing 3 lessons on the desert and its wildlife.
any help would be appreciated
sincerely,
felixdan1
EDIT: Thanks for all the help (even though im saying this if u havent posted anything feel free to help. im still working on it)
A dense root system, to get the most out of the soil and moisture if it rains. small surface area on leaves (If you have any) have it using the wind to carry its spores to reproduce with other plants, (insects may be scarce)
Animals: ability to burrow is a must, some advanced ability to sense prey (through smell maybe) ability to conserve water in their bodies.
Animals: ability to burrow is a must, some advanced ability to sense prey (through smell maybe) ability to conserve water in their bodies.
I did this exact assignment for geography when i went to high school. They teach you this kinda shit instead of teaching where anything actually is in the world. We did a whole bloody unit on the tourism industry of Phuket one year. Ask any of those students just where Phuket is and they have no idea.
Anyway, on topic, I made a Piranha Plant from Mario crossed with a camel. No logic behind the piranha plant at all. I guess they're just damn cool. I passed in any case, so it's all good.
Anyway, on topic, I made a Piranha Plant from Mario crossed with a camel. No logic behind the piranha plant at all. I guess they're just damn cool. I passed in any case, so it's all good.