Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2022 i National Geographic Kids

CHECK OUT THE BOOK! A SEED CAN BLOW ACROSS THE OCEAN AND SPROUT ON ANOTHER CONTINENT. Swiftlet birds’ nests are made entirely from saliva. MOONDUST STICKS TO ASTRONAUTS’ SPACE SUITS. DOODLING CAN HELP YOU CONCENTRATE. WALKING USES 200 MUSCLES. A NEW SKYSCRAPER goes up EVERY month in CHINA.…

1 Moonquakes occur on the Earth’s moon. 2 More than 200 moons are in our solar system. 3 NASA scientists hope to send astronauts to the moon in 2025 to explore its surface. 4 Scientists think that gravity might one day break apart Mars’s 2 moons and form Saturn-like rings around the planet. 5 Neither Venus nor Mercury has any moons. 6 The solar system’s largest moon, Jupiter’s Ganymede, is one and a half times larger than Earth’s moon. 7 One of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus, has 2 large geysers that spew water vapor and ice.…

You might think a walk in nature is peaceful: no chatty TV screens or pinging text messages! But if you know how to listen, you’ll discover that the animal kingdom is anything but quiet. Animals squeak, squawk, chatter, and hum. Some send signals with smells or communicate with color. And they’ve got a surprising amount to say. Read on to uncover eight secret codes of the animal kingdom. Name-Droppers Humans can’t carry on a conversation underwater, but bottlenose dolphins definitely can. Typically living in groups of up to 15 dolphins, they squeak, whistle, click, and squawk. “Dolphins need to communicate about many things,” says Kel Melillo Sweeting, a scientist studying animal behavior with the Dolphin Communication Project. “They ‘talk’ to keep track of individuals in the group, find food, discuss…

A North American porcupine huddles in the stairwell of a parking garage in Winchester, Virginia. The youngster is sick, exhausted, and missing a patch of quills on his back. Far from his forest home, the confused porcupine must have crawled into the building in search of shelter. Eventually, a surprised maintenance worker stumbles on the critter and quickly calls the local police. CAR CHASE “I thought for sure the worker had seen a raccoon because I’d never heard of a porcupine in our area,” police officer Felicia Marshall says. These animals were once considered pests and had been wiped out from Virginia more than a hundred years ago. Conservationists have been glad to see them slowly moving back to their historic range over the past 30 years. But a parking…

CHECK OUT THE BOOK! A CAFE IN ENGLAND MADE ICE-CREAM FLAVORS LIKE KETCHUP AND MUSHY PEAS. OVER 1,000 YEARS AGO, CHINESE EMPERORS MADE WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE FIRST DAIRY ICE CREAM FROM COW, GOAT, AND BUFFALO MILK. NEW ZEALAND CONSUMES THE MOST ICE CREAM OF ANY COUNTRY—6 GALLONS A PERSON EACH YEAR.…

Ocean cruise on a lemon shark YiPadvisor Too risky! Slender sharksucker Like all sharksuckers, I travel in style. I’ve got a natural suction cup on my head that helps me stick to whales, sharks, rays, and more. So I get to relax while my host carries me to new and exciting places. Recently, I decided to take an ocean cruise on a lemon shark. At first, I was having tons of fun. My shark ate a lot of prey, so I got to feed on plenty of leftovers. Usually sharks leave me alone to do my thing, but this time another lemon shark tried to eat me! I think I’ll stick with laid-back sea turtles on future vacations. Whistling thorn tree yow Read my review! Giraffe When I first saw…

1Rocks are made up of a mix of minerals. 2 Scientists study how lava flows by melting billion-year-old basalt rock. 3 The moon is made mostly of rock. 4 Found in South Africa, the oldest known emeralds, a mineral, are almost 3 billion years old. 5 Tall, skinnylimestone structures in Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park provide homes for animal species found nowhere else in the world. 6 Crystals can be as large as a tree trunk or so tiny that the minerals are only visible through a microscope. 7 Natural icebergs and icicles, are minerals. 8 Some 13th-century eyeglasses used tinybits of the mineral aquamarine for the lenses. 9 Called fool’s gold, a mineral called pyrite is often mistaken for gold. 10 Obsidian can be so sharp that doctors have used the…

This year, the U.S. Mint began issuing quarters with U.S. WOMEN on one side. The first two are poet MAYA ANGELOU and astronaut SALLY RIDE, the first U.S. woman in space. A PORTRAIT of George Washington is on the other side. UZBEKISTAN’S tiyin coin is worth a THOUSANDTH as much as a PENNY. In February 2015, SCUBA DIVERS OFF ISRAEL FOUND OVER2,600 GOLD COINS dating back as far as the 9TH CENTURY. Coins created in 1616 for what isnow BERMUDA were nicknamed “HOGGIES” because they pictured HOGS. A British artist made a dress out of used banknotes from around the world. Some people think that Canada’s $100 banknote gives off the scent of maple syrup. In 1917, ROMANIA issued a banknote that was about the SIZE of a POSTAGE STAMP.…