You hear a distant call in the sky, “Honk! Honk!” You look up and see a V-shaped formation of geese passing overhead and going south.
That V-shaped formation of geese actually goes at the express train speed of about 50 miles an hour. We can make a guess as to why they fly in this formation.
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When we think of an earthquake, we think of buildings toppling, huge cracks opening up in the earth, and so on. What is there to be “measured?” Well, an earthquake is a trembling or vibration of the earth’s surface. And it is these vibration that are measured.
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When a worker bee finds flowers with nectar, how does it tell the other bees what it has found? How does it tell them what the flower is, how far away it is, and in which direction to go?
The way bees communicate this information is one of the most amazing wonders of nature.
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An asp is simply a kind of snake. It belongs to a family of snakes called “vipers”, which includes some of the deadliest poisonous snakes in the world.
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