Reading, viewing and speaking one before you read, look at the title and the pictures below to predict what the text will be about, then read the text and check your prediction. Natures hidden superpowers. We often take nature for granted. Of course, we know that IT exists because IT is all around us. IT is the water that we splash on our face in the mornings, the freshly cut grass we smell on our way to school, the apple we have for lunch, the golden rays of the setting sun, which bathe our world with glory, and the stars which guide are nightly dreams, the breeze that gently touches her cheeks and the clouds that paid images in the sky are constant reminders of natures presence. However, IT is so easy to become jed with that which we know too well. And just as we so often test by the ride of color in a garden, not noticing its fantastic beauty, we seldom stop to think that nature is in doubt with an ray of properties, which, if we had them, would be considered super powers. One popular superhero from a popular film as a teenager, who shoots out of silicon thread and uses IT to fly through the air, catch criminals. While this may seem remarkable, spiders and nature do this all the time. One slender strand of spider silk is less than one twenty of the diameter of a human hair. However, if you were the same size as a steel beam, IT would be five times stronger than the steel IT is also tremendously flexible, having the ability to stretch two to four times its length. This allows spiders to use their silk to spread out like an umbrella, to fly through the air and to weave webs, which can catch large prey without breaking how large of prey the golden orb weaver spider in australia and is known to catch in each small birds in its webs. IT is also no accident that many webs look like works of art. Some spiers deliberately make them look more beautiful in order to attract insects. Since spider webs often lose their stickiness in a short time, spider often make a new web, eating the old web to recycle the protein. One of the most lovable super euros in film is a tree like aliens who is able to grow back body parts and reproduce from branches. However, this superhero lacks one super attribute that all real trees have roots, while typically trees have a root system that is about the size of their branches, up to ninety percent of some desert trees, such as the mosche trees, are made up of roots as they need long routes to find enough water to survive. However, the deepest roots belong to a wild fake train, or ext, south africa, which reach one hundred and twenty meters underground. But what are root superpowers? For one thing, they are strong enough to break apart rocks and concrete, since they are constantly in search of water. If they find a crack in a stone, they will force their way into this, and over time, break IT apart. For another, some tree roots appeared to have telepathic powers and can use this to communicate with other trees about the weather and growing conditions through their roots. Some trees even provide nutrition to other trees in their area, which are struggling to survive. One of the most powerful superheroes in film is a woman who can call forth instant hurricane sand, even lightning bolts, to overcome the bad guys for real life. Prototype is the ocean. Much of the solar radiation striking her more than hundred times. The energy used by humans is absorbed by oceans and circulated by current around the globe, warming areas farther away from the solar radiation. Warmth from the ocean heats the air, causing IT to rise and form wind. wm. Motion water also evaporates and turns into the moisture that forms clouds and rain. Eighty five percent and ninety percent of the rain on earth comes from motion water, thus the vast majority of the earth's storms, even those far away from the sea, are activated by the ocean's great power, the most powerful storms by far, hurricanes, which are created on the ocean and then move over land. A typical hurray e releases the same energy as ten thousand nuclear bonds. The power of ocean is really beyond our imagination. Of course, though nature has super powers, IT is not a superhero. IT is not a person whom we can talk to and bargain with. Rather, IT is a powerful force that holds us at its mercy as much as we try to make use of nature and bend IT to our will. We are the ones who must always adapt in the same way that we must live our lives by the rythm of the sun. Though the sun does not notice our existence, IT is we who must order alive by nature and not the other way around. This should creating us both humility and all nature is more powerful, mysterious and beautiful than anything we ourselves could ever make with our own hands. Just as we cannot control the wind, we cannot create anything as beautiful as a simple rose. And there is so much about nature that is still beyond the comprehension. Since our own powers and abilities are so limited compared to the richness ness of nature, we would do well to appreciate IT more, to stop and consider its greatness, to stand in all its complexity and magnificent.