Monday, May 2, 2011

Blog # 4 Vegetation associated with climate changes.

        Vegetation is an important part of our life and has a hug impact on the earth. The climate changes affect our vegetation in many ways. There are many elements that a plants need in order to grow and they are divided into two groups: minerals and non-minerals. Climate changes make the earth more cooler, drier wetter and warmer and this shift the vegetation. In some cases like that, the land need to be on break for a certain time  for the people to be able to use it again for planting. Biography part that we started today, made more sense to me about how plants don't need us to survive. It is evident that we are a problem to the climate changes too.

This image show a vegetation landscape in Rwanda that has been affect by the climate changes. Because of the sun, the land became more arid and hard. The lack of trees leads to the soil degradation.

  In Rwanda, most of the population survive from fresh food straight from farms. Therefore, vegetation is more needed there in order for people to survive. In class we studied some forest where the land is covered by big trees that protect the ground from the sun. Climate changes has affected the vegetations sources. Things like water is a necessary element for plants and in some region, water has been rare. There also most plants that survive by water The more trees covers the land or vegetation, there is a shadow that protect the land from the sun. In class we went over the example of some plants that keeps water, some that don' need water to survive and those that need both water and the sun.



This is a plantation of tea. When the climate is favorable, people can even use the mountain for more foods.

This is an example of a fertile and green land. Some of the elements that make the land more fertile are animals like Cows, goats. I am not sure about the name in English may be it is called "mulch".




      

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