Total quantity
* Total quantities determine the number and frequency of samples taken.
* is the area of the graph.

Touch
* Can tell if a surface is hot or cold.
* can be a powerful means of communication
  - the vehicle to spiritual planes of the heart and soul or into our darkest fears
  - convey messages of status and power, support, consolation, or sexual intimacy
  - decrease blood pressure and heart rate
* creates human emotions and feelings.
* deals with how a player handles the ball.
* evokes a sensory response.
* is acts.
* is also a common sense that dolphins use for their social needs to be met and more
  - an important sense in walrus communities
  - critical in techniques that people who are visually impaired use for travel
  - involved in eating
  - always important in massage
  - an occurrence
  - attacks
  - awareness
  - basic to human life - just like air, water and nutrition
  - capable of abstract concepts
  - classic nonverbal communication
  - communication that transcends ears, eyes, and culture
  - contact
* is crucial to an infant's development
  - the regulation of the stress-response system
  - energy
* is essential for health and well-being
  - myriad behaviors that range from avoiding bodily harm to social exchange
  - highly important in foreplay because our skin is our largest sexual organ
  - manners
  - perceptions
  - rivers
  - solicitations
  - suggestions
  - to experience and the only way to overcome our loneliness
  - vitally important to healing
* means contact, a relationship with what lies outside our own periphery.
* plays an important role in the development of interpersonal trust.
* refers to the puppy s willingness to be touched by people.
* seems to be residing in visual areas.
* strengthens the bond between parent and child.
* typing on a typewriter or computer keyboard is the best way to write letters.
* uses joints, tendons and muscles.
+ Nonverbal communication, Touch
  * Touch is classic nonverbal communication. What it means depends on the context.

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Grazing
* affects both the plants and the soil in pastures.
* also influences vegetation characteristics and soil permeability through compaction.
* are foragings
* can affect ecosystem function and fungal community structure
  - also alter the allocation of energy to the belowground foodweb
  - be a source of excessive sediment, nutrients, and pathogens
* can have a negative impact on ring-necked pheasants
  - direct and indirect effects on grass and woody plant ratios
  - help certain native species to survive
  - limit periphyton populations
* compacts the soil in some areas and accelerates erosion.
* has social dimensions as well as economical.
* increases the risk of infectious disease.
* is affected by temperature
  - an economical and environmental benefit to farmers and can help to reduce farming costs
  - cited as damaging to soils, water quality, plants, and wildlife
  - composed of intensity, frequency, kind and class of animal, and season of use
* is equally important in maintaining a prairie ecosystem
  - to plants and wildlife, producing many of the same results as fire
  - essential to the preservation of the prairie ecosystem
  - historically an annual occurrence, while timber harvest is periodic
  - the process whereby herbivores remove vegetation
  - touch
* means of renewing and regenerating natural resources.
* natural phenomenon.
* reduces the threat of communicable diseases.
* social behaviour like sheltering and camping.
* technique used to create shadows and highlights.

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Continuous grazing
* involves leaving animals in a field continuously for several weeks or months.
* reduces forage production and eliminates wildlife cover and food.
* removes wildflowers, shrubs and small trees that produce fruit and nuts.

Excessive grazing
* can eliminate or suppress many species.
* leads to direct mortality from predation or trampling or degrades the habitat.