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Local schools supply many volunteers.

The rest is supplied by your own imagination.

Plant roots cannot penetrate far into hard clay soils, and during dry periods, the soil cannot hold enough water to supply plant needs.

The numerous plants and animals living in the soil release minerals from the parent material from which soil is formed, supply organic matter, aid in the translocation (movement) and aeration of the soil, and help protect the soil from erosion.

Tress, grass, and other large plants supply the bulk of the soil's humus.

It had been recognized by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724- that chemical reactions could not supply the tremendous amount of energy flowing from the Sun for more than about a millennium.

Small nomadic groups could easily supply the necessities for their families.

The old monastic scriptoria-monastery workshops where monks copied texts by hand-worked closely alongside the new presses, continuing to produce the luxury goods that movable-type printing could not yet supply.

The metabolism of so many termites and of the fungus that they grow in their gardens as food helps keep the interior of the nest warm and supplies some moisture to the air in the nest.

It supplies the nest’s inhabitants with fresh oxygen as it rises through the fungus-growing area back up to the attic.

A braided stream forms where more sediment is supplied to a stream than it can carry.

Some tropical termites are more ingenious engineers, constructing huge above-ground nests with built-in “air conditioning” that keeps the nest moist, at a constant temperature, and well supplied with oxygen.

Lichens helped to speed the decomposition of the hard rock surfaces, preparing a soft bed of soil that was abundantly supplied with minerals that had been carried in the molten rock from the bowels of Earth.

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help tropical rain forest plants cope with the poor soils there by supplying them with needed nitrogen.

The brain requires a constant supply of oxygen.

Unlimited supply. We know, you can't get anymore.

Later, when a direct trade route was established between China and England, the supply of tea greatly increased.

Although there is an abundant supply of nitrogen in Earth’s atmosphere, it cannot be absorbed by plants unless it is “fixed,” or combined chemically with other elements to form nitrogen compounds.

Improvements in the food supply continued trends that had started in the late seventeenth century.

It also included mechanical cream separators and other food-processing devices that improved supply.

So demands soon far exceeded supply and their prices skyrocketed.

Now last week when we discussed the serious energy challenges we are going to face as the world's population continues to grow and we place more stress on our finite supply of fossil fuels, especially natural gas and oil, well, maybe it's not all doom and gloom.

That's right, and in winter, lichens are crucial for reindeer because their supply energy, but they don't have all the proteins and minerals the reindeer need.

But of most critical importance was the food supply.

Assuming that China’s population in 1400 was about 80 million, the economist Dwight Perkins concludes that its growth to 700 million or more in the 1960s was made possible by a steady increase in the grain supply, which evidently grew five or six times between 1400 and 1800 and rose another 50 percent between 1800 and 1965.

This increase of food supply was due perhaps half to the increase of cultivated area, particularly by migration and settlement in the central and western provinces, and half to greater productivity - the farmers’ success in raising more crops per unit of land.

But why don't they just build their nest closer to their food supply?

Now of course, because of modern chemistry, any color is available in tubes at any art supply store.

Well, first of all, wood for cooking fires was in short supply. And because of the extreme climate, food had to be prepared inside, indoors most of the year.

The greater reliability of food supplies was a factor in the decline of urban death rates.

As agricultural economies became more diversified and local food supplies could be purchased both locally and over longer distances, a far-reaching economic interdependence resulted.

The country's only supplies are those it can import by lorry from Vietnam.