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The key difference today between a boat and a ship is size.

The country is actually an archipelago made up of 6852 islands.

t is in fact rather tricky to clearly define what a tree actually is. The generally accepted definition is: a plant with a long stem (or trunk) that has both branches and leaves and lives for more than two year

palms are not considered trees because their trunks do not grow outwards.

any plant which has a woody trunk that thickens each year by growing outwards’.

There have been trees on our planet for around 370 million years.

Every growing season a new layer of wood is added which thickens the trunk; this process is known as ‘secondary growth’.

One of the most important properties of trees (to us as humans) is that they absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. This ensures that the air on our planet remains breathable.

any thousands of acres of trees are cut down every day for reasons including using the wood as fuel, clearing areas for human habitation and for other industries such as paper and matches. We must be careful though - the more trees we cut down, the less carbon dioxide is absorbed.

Trees also remove other airborne pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxides.