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Sean Boorum 11/02/14

This weekend my mom told me to look outside real quick and I saw the moon even though it was only around 4:25 pm. That is when I decided to check out why we can see the moon in the day time. I found out that two factors effect this. One the moon's brightness. This is a big part of that but so is how close the moon is. The sun is further away and even though it is a gigantic burning ball of hydrogen. The second reason is the orbit of the moon is not always exactly opposite to the sun. As the moon nears the end of it's cycle towards the new moon phase it becomes less parallel to the sun.

Sean Boorum/ November 9th, 2014

There are around two thousand five hundred species of palm trees. Some species can live in colder temperatures. Others as most people know live in tropical temperatures. The leaves grow from a point in the center of the trunk. If it is damaged the tree may, and probably will die. It all depends on the tree itself.

The Blue Ridge Mountains have a large inhabitants of birds, white-tailed deer, wild boar, American black bear and amphibians and reptiles. Some of the plant species that live there are oak, hickory oak, hemlock and spruce. Since the Blue Ridge Mountains have a warmer climate than where we live there aren’t as many treelines. Most of the time you see evergreens higher in the mountains instead.