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Okay ct reading people We got ten more for you

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here and then we're done And yeah yeah we know

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you'll really miss this We're stuck in glacier national park

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It snowed and it's icy and we can't get out

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All right let's just get down to it Question one

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of ten here in last laughs in the passage alpine

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wildflowers struggle against the natural elements of high wind cold

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And what all right so here we go Glacier trying

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home late Leave a speech of vascular planes looking vessel

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looking and watering nutrients there Twenty seven treatments so i

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don't know I don't know Name species sidetracked with them

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hard and everything Mosses like infinite plane eye catching our

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alpine wildflowers Okay here we go We're getting close There

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are few sights more beautiful avalanche slow for out by

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men of color But going with a beer a grass

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and fields were like carpet over the wildlife division Auto

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and jamie's I'm claiming late summer program All right nothing

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in paragraph two we're still looking There's never a shortage

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of color during the brief growing season or the season

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short in the alpine zone Extreme winds called knights occasional

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snow squalls and intense ultraviolet light make the life of

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an alpine wildflower adventurous Alright we think we have our

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answer here Ding ding ding ultraviolet light or radiation Well

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the alpine wildflowers trap warm to keep themselves toasty but

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they do not want to absorb ultra violet radiation The

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passage says that some flowers have fine hairs to trap

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heat but diffuse or spread out ultraviolet radiation like humans

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wild flowers need the sun but uv rays you no

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way high up in al to There's not a lot

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of ozone The filter amount Those rays can be harmful

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and plants can't exactly the lather on the you know

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sunscreen Fifty So that's it It's answers A ultraviolet radiation

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and the loser ball here Well let's say wildflowers don't

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struggle against moisture It's what They're a lot So give

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it to be actually need moisture and they work hard

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to keep as much of it as they can The

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alpine tundra is also pretty lonely so wild flowers don't

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need to confer Pete for resource is so you to

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seek And they're the only flowers there In fact sometimes

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they work together in cluster to conserve warmth and moisture

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Finally too much sunlight is not a problem You know

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where it is In fact wildflowers want as much sunlight

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as they can get They're designed to maximize sun soaking

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Action is called What is that called It rhymes with

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shma oto synthesis Anyway whatever It's a ultraviolet radiation

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