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September 28, 2024 Recommended

Types of Ecosystems – Terrestrial and Aquatic

Ecosystems can be categorised into two broad categories: natural and artificial. Natural Ecosystems are those ecosystems that operate by themselves under natural conditions. These ecosystems are further categorized as Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems. Terrestrial ecosystems relate to lands, whereas Aquatic ecosystems relate to fresh or marine water. Freshwater ecosystems may be Lotic or Lentic. Lotic are running water ecosystems like springs, streams or rivers, whereas Lentic Fresh Water Ecosystems may be found in standing waters of lakes, ponds, pools, puddles, ditches, swamps, etc. Marine Ecosystems are found in marine waters of salt lakes, seas, oceans and estuaries. Artificial Ecosystems are man-engineered ecosystems like crop fields, artificial ponds and lakes, aquaria, fish ponds, and abandoned mines reclaimed as lakes or water bodies for recreation.

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December 27, 2023 Recommended

Phases of technological developments

There are three phases of development of technology- invention, innovation and diffusion. The invention is a process which incorporates wide range of ideas, material things, and human behaviour in new systematic ways.

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December 25, 2024 Recommended

Joint Forest Management (JFM) and National Scenario

The concept of joint forest management was initiated on a large scale through guidelines issued by the government of India in 1990. According to those guidelines the village communities are to be involved in the development and protection of degraded forests based on taking their genuine share of benefits from those forests.

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January 8, 2023 Recommended

Forests and their types

A forest is a highly complex and constantly changing environment. It is made up of a variety of living things like wildlife, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, mosses, lichens, fungi and microscopic soil organisms; and non-living things such as water, nutrients, rocks, sunlight and air. Trees are the biggest part of this complex community.

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September 27, 2021 Recommended

Human Attitudes to Animals

Humans have a complex relationship with animals. They use them for a variety of purposes. There are working animals, companion animals, animals used for scientific research, and animals used for food and byproducts.

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May 21, 2022 Recommended

Plants and their Different Parts

Living organisms capable of synthesizing food on their own are called as plants. They contain chlorophyll, the green magnesium compound which helps in trapping the energy from sun. This energy runs the process of photosynthesis through which glucose is basically synthesized in leaves and green stems on combining together the atmospheric carbon dioxide and water.

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