Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2023 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Do you want to see a mountain? If your family lives in the eastern United States, you might visit the Great Smoky Mountains. The mountains are nicknamed the Smokies. Can you see why? The plants give off water that helps form fog. The fog looks like smoke as it hangs among the trees.…

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A mountain is a huge chunk of land that rises high above the area around it. How is it different from a hill? Most people agree that a mountain is taller than a hill, less rounded, and harder to climb. But there is no official height that separates mountains from hills. Mountains are found in every part of the world, even in oceans. They come in different shapes, but they usually have steep, sloped sides. And they were all formed by movements in Earth’s outer layer, called its crust. Earth’s crust is a hard rocky shell that surrounds the entire planet, like the shell on an egg. And like the cracked shell of a boiled egg, it is broken into uneven pieces, called plates. These plates float on top of…

Hi, I’m a mountain lion. People also call me a cougar, panther, puma, catamount, and more. Scientists call me Puma concolor. That means cat of one color, with no spots or stripes. How’d I get so many names? Cats like me once lived all over North and South America, and people in different places called us different things. We still live in many different places, as far north as Canada and as far south as Chile. And not just on mountains. You’ll also find us in deserts, forests, grasslands, and swamps. We live anywhere we can find food. We usually stay in our own home areas, but those can be large. It takes me a week to go all around my mountain home. I like it, though, because there are…

It’s hard for anything—plant or animal—to survive high up on cold, harsh, snow-covered mountain peaks. Lower down the mountain, it’s easier. It’s still too cold for trees to grow just below the snowfields, but some shrubs and mosses thrive, providing food for the hardy animals that live above the tree line. And the forests and meadows on the lower slopes are filled with birds, animals, and plants! CLICK TAKEOUT PAGES Please remove carefully at fold. CLICK TAKEOUT PAGES Please remove carefully at fold. CLICK TAKEOUT PAGES Please remove carefully at fold. Remove the takeout pages carefully. Unfold them into one big page showing all the mountain zones. Ask a grown-up to cut along the dotted black lines. Do not cut along the solid black lines. Then fold the page back…

Meet Scout and Cache, two Jackson Hole Patrol Dogs. Hi! I’m Scout. I’m an avie dog in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Me too! My name is Cache. Avie is short for avalanche. An avalanche is a huge pile of snow and ice that comes rushing down a mountain. It can be really dangerous for a skier or a hiker. A person buried by an avalanche needs help. It’s our job to find them so they can be rescued. Dogs are great at finding people because we are amazing sniffers! We can track and remember millions of different smells. But not every dog can be an avie dog. It takes a lot of work. Cache and I are both two years old. We started learning how to be avie dogs when we…

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