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Filter  Item Title Vehicles designed to move on snow are supported on flat boards called runners, skids, or skis. New York's Statue fo Liberty stands on Liberty Island off the tip of Manhattan. An artery is a tubelike blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart. Carbohydrates in food are your body's main source of energy. Octopuses and squid belong to a family of mollusks called cephalopods. Turtles and tortoise are reptiles that live inside hard, armored shells. Friction is the force that acts between two things rubbing together. Most sounds you hear, from the whisper of the wind to the roar of a jet, are simply moving air. Elements are the basic chemicals of the Universe. Your heart is the size of you fist. Most birds sit on their eggs to keep them warm until they are ready to hatch. Vultures and condors are the biggest birds of prey. Reptiles are cold-blooded, but this does not mean that their blood is cold. Things float because they are less dense in water. Hydrogen is the lightest of all gases and of all elements. Nuclear power is based on the huge amounts of energy that bind together the nucleus of every atom. Many fish species live in warm seas around coral reefs. Your diet is what you eat. Blood transfusions are given when someone has lost too much blood due to an injury or operation. Cells are the basic building blocks of your body. Anatomy is the study of the structure of the human body. Hundreds of kinds of dinosaur were herbivores, or plant eaters. Dinosaur claws were probably made from keratin. Body salts are not simply the salt (sodium chloride) some people sprinkle on food. Cathedrals are the churches of Christian bishops. Satellite are objects that orbit planets and other space objects. Radiation is energy shot out at high speed by atoms. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) discovered the basic rules about the way the planets move. Marsupials probably originated in America some 100 millions years ago. Chimps have a strict social ladder, with dominant male at the top. Indian ruler Shah Jehan ordered to build the Taj Mahal in honor of his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. A kind of jet engine was built by the Ancient Greek Hero of Alexander in the first century AD. The Korean War oh the 1950s saw the first major combat between jet fighters. Unlike most cats, cheetahs can hardly retract their claws at all. In wolf packs, only the dominant female normally mates and has cubs. Reindeer have a well developed homing instintic. The skunk squirts a sticky spray at its enemy from glands under its tail. The American kangaroo rat may never take a drink of water in its life. Elephants are very intelligent animals, with the biggest brain of all land animals. Not all birds can fly, but they all have feathers. Reptiles are scaly-skinned animals which live in many different habitats mainly in warm regions. Astronomy is the study of the night sky, from the planets and moons to the stars and galaxies. Space telescopes are launched as satellites so we can study the Universe. Mars is called the red planet because of its rusty red color. The heartbeat is a sequence called the cardiac cycle. Vitamins are substances the body needs to help maintain chemical processes inside cells. It takes less than 90 seconds on average for the blood to circulate through the body. An adult's skeleton has 206 bones joined together by rubbery cartilage. Pyramids are found not only in Egypt. The world's largest airport is King Abdul Aziz in Saudi Arabia. It covers 55,500 acres.   << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >> Results 451 - 500 of 772

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