2007-02-14 16:52:48 · 7 answers · asked by theblueyoshi 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
It's just a season. When the earth tilts away from the sun, in our hemisphere, it is winter. The would be rain, from the cold temperature, turns to snow.
It freezes, and then melts.
I am sure there are some plants that have adapted to the winter, and snow, and have certain processes they go through.
It also effects the plant life we have. For example, a palm tree cold never survive in snow, it would die.
This help any?
2007-02-14 17:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
people, these days, are talking a lot about global warming.
i wrote a short lecture here a couple of days ago about the ozone layer and how we are destroying our own protection.
winter has snow that protects seeds and such underground just by laying there. then as winter leaves and spring arrives the snow has maintained the moisture necessary to keep the earth pliable or workable (without the snow the earth would probably blow away as dust...yeah?) to be able to prepare for the arrival of a next crop of whatever.
well that's a short expose about natural purposes of snow. need to know more? look it up somewhere because i'm leaving a just a bit to the imagination.
2007-02-15 01:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When snow blankets the ground it is a good insulator so the plants underneath and animals burrowed under it aren't exposed to extreme cold. Snow helps them survive the winter.
Also, as some have mentioned, snowmelt in the mountains provides moisture throughout the year as it melts. The Rio Grande and Colorado River as we know them wouldn't exist without snow.
2007-02-15 02:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
But if you want to be all scientific and stuff...the gradual melt of snow provides a spring supply of water melting from the mountains to assist in the spring greenup period.
2007-02-15 01:14:49 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has no purpose. It simply is.
Unless you want to define its purpose as holding all the water until warmer weather so it can refresh the soil.
Or use it in a metaphysical sense to indicate the religious cleansing of the spirit (covers all our sins).
2007-02-15 00:59:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think you mean 'purpose'.
Snow has no natural Purpose. If it's too cold for rain, then the rain will fall as snow.
2007-02-15 00:59:35 · answer #6 · answered by Norrie 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
SAY WHAT????????
2007-02-15 00:56:45 · answer #7 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋