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Hammerhead Shark

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Hammerhead Shark

Wonderful wildlife, wonderful facts. Strange wildlife, strange facts. Wonderful and strange wildlife? Wonderful and strange facts.

  • There are nine species of hammerhead sharks.
  • Most hammerheads live in warm temperature and tropical seas.
  • Hammerheads normally live in small schools together where there are more females than males.
  • Female hammerheads fight with other females to be in the centre, so they are noticeable to the males.
  • By dusk, the hammerheads leave the school to find a place to eat and by dawn, the hammerheads regroup into schools again, at the same spot they left.

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Hammerhead Shark 
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  • Stingrays are the hammerhead’s favourite food.
  • The smallest hammerhead alive is the Bonnethead, which grows to 1.5 meters (5 feet) long, and the largest hammerhead, the Great Hammerhead, grows to 6 meters (19.5 feet) long.
  • The hammer shaped head of the hammerhead helps the shark to swim faster.
  • A hammerhead swings it’s head side to side to see it’s surroundings.
  • The hammerhead’s head has many ampullae of Lorenzini which can sense small electric currents produced by their prey.
Bibliography:
Macquitty, M 2004, Shark, Dorling Kindersley, United States

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American Indian Traditional Dress

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American Indian Traditional Dress

Many countries and tribes have their own dress. Also many countries and tribes have their own facts.  Put two and two together and you get facts about traditional dress, in this case, American Indian traditional dress.

  • Many western and southern tribes didn’t wear much.
  • Many warriors shaved their heads to make them look scary and threatening. and tribes used feathers to express their fighting skills.
  • Tribes in the south east and in California pricked themselves using cacti quills or slivers of bones to prick designs on their skin like tattoos.
  • Many tribes wore hats if the materials were available.
  • Many tribes also wore body paint to show off their bravery or if they were in a special group, as well as to protect them from the sun, wind, cold and stinging or biting insects.

Native North American Indian, Chief Grey Owl, Traditional Dress, Ten Random Facts, Free Digital Photos

Chief 
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  • Many men from many tribes wore buckskin between the legs and a tied belt in summer and in winter they added thigh leggings and a knee length tunic.
  • Women of most tribes often wore dresses.
  • Children normally wore nothing in summer and in winter wore clothes like the adults.
  • Jewellery was very popular among tribes and was made using shells, copper, porcupine quills and feathers when available.
  • Glass and ceramic beads were made and used for decorating clothes, recording or sending messages, ingredients for medicine or for trade.
Bibliography:
North American Indians 1999, Two-Can Publishing, London

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Stove

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Stove

One of the most popular inventions is the stove, what would the world do without them? Well we need to know about them, what would the world do without facts!

  • A stove is an enclosed structure that uses fire or electricity which can be used to heat up the house or to cook.
  • The original meaning of the word ‘stove’ actually meant ‘a heated room’.
  •  There are many stove models that have been invented. The four main stove designs are the wood stove, which burns wood, the coal stove which burns coal and wood, the electric stove which runs on electricity and the enclosed stove which is enclosed versions of the models above.
  • Wood and coal burning stoves pollute the air by giving off lots of smoke and gas.
  • The benefit of stoves is that it is easier to control the heat, than an open fire.

Stove, Oven, Burning Wood, Enclosed Metal, Ten Random Facts

  • In 1735, Françios Cuvillés invented the first completely enclosed stove.
  • Metal stoves were invented in the 18th century and electric stoves were invented in the late 19th century.
  • The first fully enclosed metal cooking stove was invented in the 19th century but was too large to fit in a normal house.
  • A corn pellet generates the same heat in a stove as wood pellets.
  • In the United States, the maximum amount of smoke allowed to be let off from stoves is 7.5 grams per hour.
Bibliography:
Stove 14 October 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stove>

 

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Rose

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Rose

It smells good, looks good and feels good. Well, maybe not ‘feels good’.  No, let’s look at the rose!

  • There are over 100 different species of roses.
  • Thousands of cultivars and hybrids have been bred from the different species.
  • The tallest species of rose plant can reach up to 7 meters high.
  • Most leaves on a rose stem are between 5 and 15 cm (2″ to 5.9″) long.
  • Different parts of a rose can be used as food, medicine, perfume, crops or decoration.

Climbing Pink Rose, Ten Random Facts

 

  • The oil from a rose can be turned into jam, jelly, marmalade or can flavour tea.
  • The rose is used as symbols for many countries and occasions.
  • The fruit on a rose is called the rose hip.
  • Rose hips can contain between 5 and 160 seeds.
  • The thorns (prickles) on a rose stem is used to defend the plant from threats or help the rose’s vegetation growth.
Bibliography:
Rose 16 October 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose>

Igneous Rock

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Igneous Rock

There are many types of rocks and many groups. Igneous rocks are up!

  • Igneous rocks are formed in molten magma.
  • There are two types of igneous rock. One type of igneous rock is formed in the surface of the earth while the other type of rock forms on the crust, because of the cool air.
  • Igneous rock is also formed when magma cools and crystallises into a rock formation.
  • Most of the earth’s crust is made out of igneous rock.
  • Many mountains are made out of igneous rocks. Also, many mountains with lots of surrounding igneous rock suggests that the mountain could be a volcano.

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Igneous Rock
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  • ‘Igneous’ comes from the latin phrase ‘made from fire’.
  • Earth’s moon is made out of igneous rocks.
  • Many roads are made from crushed igneous rock .
  • The igneous rock called pumice is the lightest rock on earth.
  • Igneous rocks contain many minerals that help plants grow.
Bibliography:
Rocks & Minerals 2004, Dorling Kindersley, United States
Stewart, M 2002, Igneous Rocks, Heinemann Library, Great Britian

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Rice

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Rice

Rice, is one of the many grains we eat. Rice comes from pure paddies like these pure ten facts.

  • There are more than 113, 000 known varieties of rice in the world.
  • Mature rice paddy plants can be 1-6 meters in height.
  • Rice is eaten daily by approximately half the world.
  • In 2010, rice was the second most popular world-wide product grown.
  • Rice is grown in approximately 100 countries.

 Brown Rice, Short Grain White Rice, Long Grain White Rice, White Rice, Rice, Ten Random Facts

  • Fifty kilograms of rice seeds will grow 2,000 kilograms of rice paddy while 400 million tons of paddy makes 260 tons of milled rice.
  • Insects, rats, viruses, heat, large downpours, birds, snails and wild buffaloes can destroy rice paddies.
  • The rice grains turn a golden yellow when it is time for harvest.
  • By 2009, the whole world was consuming 531, 639 thousand metric tons of paddy, which is equal to 354, 603 thousand metric tons of milled rice.
  •  One average person in Bangladesh eats about half a kilogram of rice daily.
Bibliography:
Hawkey, R 1980, Rice, Wayland Publishers Limited, England
Rice 13 October 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice>

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