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I choose this picture because it helps lay out the importance of plants in our
environment and society. Plants help add oxygen to the environment thus being an important necessity for life on earth. Plants are the core of our food chain. Most of everything we consume as a human and as an animal is plant based or even a plant. Plants are the base of our food chain and they are the utmost reasoning for our existence on this planet. Without plants, we would most likely not be able to survive.

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Importance of Plants in Society and Environment

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I decided to go with this mini video because it breaks photosynthesis down in the simplest of terms. Photosynthesis is very important for the fact that plants absorb dirty and contaminated gases and they transform those gases to oxygen. Photosynthesis is "organisms fuel." Without photosynthesis plants will die, as well as all living things as plants give off oxygen needed for all living organisms. Without photosynthesis, there would be no life form.

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Photosynthesis | Educational Video for Kids

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One of the major land plants that is present in Georgia is Gymnosperms. In Georgia, only 3 families of Gymnosperms reside but the most diverse of the 3 is the pine species or pinaceae. "Pinaceae have needle-like leaves and female strobili that resemble "Pine Cone", although cone size is highly variable (http://www.science.kennesaw.edu/jmcneal7//plantsys/gymnosperms.html). "Pines are among the most economically important plants in the state, particularly Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda), which is widely planted for timber and is much more common in the state now than it was historically" (http://www.science.kennesaw.edu/jmcneal7//plantsys/gymnosperms.html). I found all this information at www.science.kennesaw.edu which goes into descriptions of Gymnosperms under the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology. I found the image under Bing Images after the search of "pinaceae".

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Out of the biomes discussed in this unit, I belief that the biome in the most danger of ecological change is the Tropical Rainforest. The tropical rainforest in the Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, it is larger than India. According to CNN.com, "It's home to at least 10% of the world's biodiversity, produces 20% of the world's oxygen and helps regulate the temperature of the whole planet" (https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/world/amazon-rainforest-environment-fire-trnd/index.html). Towards the end of August, the Amazon Rainforest had a massive fire and the Amazon is a "carbon sink" and if that burns, too much carbon will be released into the atmosphere causing a massive climate change in the world. The Tropical Rainforest, in my opinion, is the biome at most risk because it's life relies on rain and there are times that it doesn't rain which causes risks of fires which in turn causes environmental changes for the whole World.

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During the First Agricultural Revolution there were many positive and negative impacts on the human population. One of the positives of this revolution was that humans began farming. This farming resulted in a huge surplus of food. As the farming advanced, so did the tools. Also, humans began to settle down in cities and didn't have to continue to wander the land in search of food.

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The short film below shows the McCormick reaper, created by Cyrus McCormick in 1837. The first reaper was invented by Hussey Reaper in 1833, hence the label "reaper." The mechanical reaper was a device used to cut and collect crop plants. Examples of hand devices were sickles, scythes, and cradles. By the late 1800s, most reapers were reaper-binders which cut and bound crops into small bundles. According to www.thoughtco.com, "The McCormick Reaper revolutionized agriculture, making it possible to harvest large areas of grain much faster than could have been done by men wielding scythes."

Reference:
https://www.thoughtco.com/mccormick-reaper-1773393

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Cyrus McCormick the first mechanical reaper - old farming film

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Pictured below is a Willow Tree. Willow bark holds a chemical called salix which is used in Asprin for pain relief and anti-clotting. According to https.www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/plants/5-drus-derived-from-plants, "Salicylic acid, which is a key component of aspirin, was first identified by Hippocrates. The father of medicine realized that the white powder derived from willow bark could alleviate aches, pains and fevers. In 1763, Edward Stone first isolated the active ingredient and it has since been used in medicine for its analgesic and anti-clotting properties."

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The reason I chose this picture is due to the fact that it truly shows two sides of what our future in agriculture can be if we do not continue to check our agricultural, economic, social, and political practices. There are many benefits of our agricultural, too many great ones to allow us to not work at perfecting our daily choices in hopes to have a future on the right of the picture. According to greentumble.com/positive-effects-of-agricultural-on-the-environment/, out of a vast amount of reasons as how agriculture affects environment, seven of those are listed below:
1. Agriculture inspires people
2. Agriculture preserves ecosystems
3. Agriculture creates habitats
4. Agriculture sets back ecological succession
5. Agriculture boosts soil fertility
6. Agriculture sequesters carbon
7. Agriculture retains soil and prevents erosion.