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Filter  Item Title Birds have four kinds of wing feather: large primaries, smaller secondaries, coverts, and contours. Lizards cannot control their own body heat, and so rely on sunshine for warmth. Spiders are small scurrying creatures which have eight legs, and bodies with two parts. Stars are being born and dying all over the Universe. The oldest known rocks on Earth are 3,900 millions years old. Volcanic eruptions are produced by magma, the hot liquid rock under the Earth's surface. Groups of common dolphins, travelling and feeding together, may number up to 2,000 individuals. A chameleon can look forward and backward at the same time. Boas capture their prey by lying in wait, hiding motionless, and waiting for victims to pass by. Eagles and hawks are among 280 species of raptor (bird of prey). The Richter scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1 to 10 using a seismograph. The atmosphere is a blanket of gases about 600 mi (1,000 km) deep around the Earth. About 100 artificial satellites are now launched very year. Astronauts must be extremely fit and also have very good eyesight. A tiger's stripes camouflage it as it hunts in the tall grasses by day. Wolves howl to avoid territorial fights. The giraffe's black tongue is almost 1.6 ft (0.5 m) long. You gain water by drinking and eating, and as a by-product of cell activity. The Moon is the brightest object in the night sky, but it does not give out any light itself. An atmosphere is the gases held around a planet by its gravity. A planet moves fastest when its orbits brings it nearest to the Sun (called its perihelion). The tiny atoms and molecules from which every substance is made are always moving. Like all sounds, musical sounds are made by something vibrating. Constrictors are snakes that squeeze their victims to death, rather than poisoning them. The heart of a star reaches 60.8 million ·F (16 millions ·C). Glaciers are rivers of slowly moving ice. They form in mountain regions when it is too cold for snow The South American jaguar is America's only big cat. Leopards have survived successfully because they will eat almost anything, from crabs to baboons. Before spraying, a skunk warns its enemy by stamping its feet. Beneath its thick white fur, a polar bear's skin is black. The technical name for going outside a spacecraft is Extra-Vehicular-Activity (E.V.A.) Veins are pipes in the body for carrying blood back to the heart. Astronomers list the stars according to their brightness, using the Greek alphabet. One of the biggest - ever eruptions occurred 2.2 millions years ago in Yellowstone. Waterfalls may form where the river flows over a band of hard rock, such as a volcanic sill. Crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials are reptiles that form the group known as crocodilians Ducks have shorter necks and wings, and flatter bills than swans. Parrots are colorful birds with curved bills for eating fruits and seeds and for craking nuts. A transfusion is when you are given blood from another person's body. Fats are an important source of energy. A galaxy is a vast group of stars, and the Milky Way is the galaxy we live in. Comets are bright objects with long tails, which we sometimes see streaking across the night sky. Male lions have the job of protecting the pride, leaving the hunting to the females most of the time Mountain lions are the largest American desert carnivores. Beavers are born with innate dam-building instincts. Touch, is just one of the five sensations that are spread all over your body in your skin. Uranus is the seventh planet out from the sun. Owls are nocturnal and hunt by night, unlike most other hunting birds. The dog family is a large group of four-legged, long-nosed, meat-eating animals. Insects have a body divided into three sections: which is why they are called insects "in sections"   << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >> Results 401 - 450 of 772

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