Loose Creek High School - Marial Yearbook (Loose Creek, MO)

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BIOLOGY Blology as the study of the thmgs of nature lt tells about lwmg things and teaches us how to thmk sclentlflcally of ourselves and our surroundings If we understand nature and xts ways we w1ll have a re spect for life and wlll try to protect and conserve xt joseph Cam Blology IS the study of plant and anlmal llfe It deals wlth the orlgm structure functlons and life h1story of plants and anlmal life also wlth the growth and reproduction of plants and anxmals One of the most lnterestlng parts of Biology IS the study of the use ful and harmful msects and blrds Insects whxch are useful llve on the msects which are harmful to men Birds also l1ve on other msects and anxmals which are harmful to man This helps to give man a safer place in whlch to live and helps to prevent dlsease whlch IS carrled by some of the lnsects Another mterestmg study IS the reproductxon 1n plants and anzmals Plants reproduce by various means but by seed the most common bulbs such as onlons and runners such as the strawberry Many celled an1 mals are formed in much the same way as are many celled seed plants Wxlfred jansen The thlngs that mterest me most are the constant struggle and search for food by anlmals and how plants and animals get thelr food how each nature how the different anzmals and msects help or harm man Ralph Boessen Biology helps us to protect our crops and get the most of lxfe xf we know how to protect our crops The blrds are the natural enemy of msects lt can klll mlllxons of msects m a day If xt were not for the blrds we would have so many msects around that we couldn t ralse a crop Where bxrds are few the msects are more numerous Francls Schaefer The most mterestmg thmgs I studled were the ways whlch plants bxrds, and anlmals lwe together There are many useful 1nsects such as the snout beetle and bees whlch fmd food on flowers yet do not harm them but asslst lh the polxnatlon of the flowers The dragon fly and the ground beetle de troys many harmful msects There are many harmful msects The potato beetle and the codlmg moth destroys useful plants and trees and ter n1tes destroy wood ln bU.11dlD.gS The chapter l xke best is the one that tells how every llV1I'1g thmg depends upon another for hfe Man depends on plants and anrmals for llfe Ammals depend on plants and smaller anxmals for exlstence Plants de pend on decayed mxneral matter ln so1l for llfe and the sunshine and the raln Henry W mgrath type of animal has its natural enemy which, helps keep the balance of