which of the following could be a hypothesis for the function of the thick way coating on a pine needle?

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Air enters through the nose (and sometimes the mouth), moves through the nasal cavity, the  pharynx, the  larynx, enters the  trachea, moves through the  bronchi  andbronchioles  till the alveoli.

A  reaction  in which  energy  is  released  to the surroundings is called an exothermic  reaction. in this type of  reaction  the enthalpy, or stored  chemical energy, is lower for the products than the reactants. when ammonium nitrate is dissolved in water,  energyis  absorbed  and the water cools.