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How tall would a pine tree grow if Earth had half the gravity?

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The height of a tree is determined more by the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere opposed to the gravitational pull. read more

The gravity of a planet or moon is a property of its size and density; thus a body might have the same gravity as that of a smaller, denser one. If the Earth had half the gravity it does now, it's possible that life would not have evolved, due to a thinner atmosphere, and a host of other consequences resulting from that one change alone. read more

But trees tend to grow outward at the bottom of the truck and they become very large, not upward. Higher up the insertion of new cellulose, under less of a load than the bottom of the tree, is where the tree lifts and pushes higher. read more

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