10 results for “roots”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Trees and Forests

   roots with fungi, which extend far finer threads into the soil, collect nutrients the roots cannot

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Fungi

   roots. The fungal threads wrap around or penetrate the root and spread far into the soil

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3. Plants & Fungi

   Seeds

   root and two little leaves, folded up and waiting. Around it is a store of food

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4. Animals

   Insects

   root, fruit, gall. Flight, which they invented about 400 million years ago, lets them find food

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5. Planet Earth

   Rocks, Minerals and Fossils

   roots are metamorphic. These are not separate families but stages. Mountains erode into sediment; sediment is buried

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6. Plants & Fungi

   Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light

   roots through the trunk in continuous threads, in some trees a hundred metres high. On hot dry days

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7. Animals

   Sharks

   rooted in the jaw but held in the gums, in rows, like a conveyor belt. When

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8. The Human Body

   Skin, Hair and Nails

   roots of hairs. Below it, a layer of fat cushions the body and helps keep heat

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9. Life & Biology

   Evolution

   perspective: a young species on a very old tree, sharing deep roots with every other living thing.

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10. Chemistry

    Water: The Strangest Ordinary Substance

    roots to their leaves. Without them, water would boil at about minus 80 degrees Celsius, and Earth

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