Plants produce their own food (sugars) using carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. Oxygen is a by-product of this reaction.
Then, we (or herbivores or other omnivores) eat the plants to get their sugar and breathe in oxygen which creates energy (for living), as well as by-products of carbon dioxide and water.
The chemistry gets far more complex than this! :}"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams
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My eyes crossed and my brain started bleeding out of my ears.
And Lulu is working out--I actually submitted Miss Pickles to some agents I'd talked to and several liked it, but didn't think it would sell. I basically have kind of given up on the traditional publishing model--I submit stuff every now and again but don't obsesses. It's so flooded with everyone thinking they're writers and agents only want the next Stephanie Meyer--the businesses are set up so they need to sell millions of books, rather than support and nurture authors like before. There's an independent company in Austin I'm looking at, but until I can find a company that doesn't expect me to do my own marketing and PR while given me .03 a book and then dropping me the second I don't sell 10,000 copies straight out of a gate, I'll do lulu. I'm hoping to build up enough of a little business. The problem is you don't see a lot of independent children's authors, and my stuff is so ...weird it's hard to explain what I do. I'm thinking about marketing to homeschooling groups, knitting and baking groups--people that aren't just into popular culture and appreciate my goofy little tales.
I have to read it a few times :)
We've talked very briefly about photosynthesis, but not in depth. More like "Magic School Bus" books type of conversations. ;)
This is so cool...I have to go read it again!
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