"Halloween" by Denny Davis
The night is dark
and the goblins are out,
and the witches and black cats
are prowling about.
And costumed creatures
the strangest I've seen,
are knocking on doors
'cause tonight's Halloween!
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About a month ago, my entity had bold green leaves. Today, my entity has green leaves, but they all have at least a bit of red on the ends of them. Some of the leaves are all red, and some are a mixture. This is indicating that Fall is officially here, regardless of the fact that "The Weather Channel" is predicting it to be 76 degrees in B-Town tomorrow. So what is the real reason the leaves on my tree are changing? This is a seasonal change that is occuring because the sun is not warming the leaves as much when the season changes from Summer to Fall (Farmers Almanac Staff 2006). This causes the leaves to use its food storage, which makes the color in the leaves less vibrant (Farmer's Almanac Staff 2006).
Sources Cited:
Farmer's Almanac Staff, (2006, October 23). What causes leaves to change color? Farmer's Almanac. Retrieved from: http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/2006/10/23/what-causes-leaves-to-change-color/
Urban sprawl is the reason why America has many different car businesses to choose from, because as Americans, the typical American, we depend on automobiles for transportation. This started when we wanted the American Dream; to live in suburbs and have the "perfect" family. But this required the government to cut down many trees in order to build communities for us. This also meant that the greenfields that we once had, were also turned into built environments. Deforestation resulted in urban sprawl to help us have the American Dream, but having less trees is not a benefit. Looking back at the post labeled "Why?" it was determined that my tree was placed there for the aesthetic value. Although trees were planted in the neigborhoods and towns that were built because of urban sprawl, it is still not enough trees that we need in our environment as a whole to keep up with the biodiversity we need.
Trees primarily receive most of their water from the ground, so this is why trees are not seen in desert areas. They take the water into their roots and then they push the water up into the leaves and the leaves receive water also. The water then goes out into the atmosphere from the leaves in a process called transpiration. Trees also get water when it rains and if a person waters the tree, but trees have to rely on groundwater to survive.
I believe the reason that my tree is in its location is because someone planted it there. It was done purely for landscaping and not for any type of ecoysystem service. A person placed a seed to create this tree. This is known by the fact that when you look around the area, there are many of the same trees that are at the same distance from each other. Although it still provides the ecosystem services that it does, the services weren't the intention for why they were planted.
