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  2. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it ...

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    is posed along with many other questions to quiz readers on the contents of the chapter, and as such, is posed from a purely physical point of view. [ 7 ] While physicists and good friends Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr were equally instrumental in founding quantum mechanics , the two had very different views on what quantum mechanics said ...

  3. Effects of Hurricane Katrina in the Southeastern United States

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    Based on the observation, the NHC estimated that an area around Bay of St. Louis experienced a storm surge of 24 to 28 ft (7.3 to 8.5 m). [4] This set a record for the highest storm surge in the United States, surpassing the 24 ft (7.3 m) storm surge set during Hurricane Camille in 1969, also in Pass Christian. [53]

  4. South Florida rocklands - Wikipedia

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    This helps explain why the pine rocklands are home to a wide variety of plants and animals, many of which are endemic to Florida, south Florida, or the pine rockland itself. [5] It is characterized by an open canopy of South Florida slash pine ( Pinus elliotti var. densa ), a patchy subcanopy of palms and shrubs, and an extremely diverse ...

  5. Piney Woods - Wikipedia

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    The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.

  6. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

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    A multiple choice question, with days of the week as potential answers. Multiple choice (MC), [1] objective response or MCQ (for multiple choice question) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only the correct answer from the choices offered as a list.

  7. Bursaphelenchus xylophilus - Wikipedia

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    The cause of cavitation and non-reversible embolism is not fully understood. In primary transmission, when the beetle feeds on a susceptible host pine, the pine wilt nematode enters the tree and feeds on the epithelial cells which line the resin ducts. This is referred to as the phytophagous phase of the nematode, and it results in pine wilt ...

  8. Araucaria araucana - Wikipedia

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    Araucaria araucana, commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, pewen, pehuen pine or piñonero, is an evergreen tree belonging to the family Araucariaceae and growing to a trunk diameter of 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) and a height of 30–40 m (98–131 ft). It is native to central and southern Chile and western Argentina. [3]

  9. Pinaceae - Wikipedia

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    Cultivated pine forest in Vagamon, southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India Members of the family Pinaceae are trees (rarely shrubs ) growing from 2 to 100 metres (7 to 300 feet) tall, mostly evergreen (except the deciduous Larix and Pseudolarix ), resinous , monoecious , with subopposite or whorled branches, and spirally arranged, linear (needle ...