This quick-change artist can switch color in 20 seconds!
FILHNISO
EHAHETC
No lyin’, there’s something fishy about this venomous sea creature.
EMCLAHNEO
Go slow and steady like this animal, and you “shell” get the answer.
Running up to 60 miles an hour (97 kph), this is one fast cat.
Yipes! It’s a horse of a different stripe.
OOTSRTIE
AERBZ AKSEN
IAGFERF
Here’s the skinny: This reptile often slips away—from its skin.
This dotty dog is born spotless.
MLATDINAA
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ANIMAL PATTERNS
This tall mammal would call Africa its neck of the woods.
It’s all for love with this fancy feathered show-off.
OACPKCE
WHAT IN THE WORLD?
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SHAPES IN NATURE
SPIRALS With your finger, trace the spiral shapes of these snail shells. What do they all have in common?
!
Fun Fact
The spiral is one of the most beautiful shapes found in nature. A spiral growth pattern often occurs naturally in the mathematically perfect curves of plants,
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animals, and even formations in space! Can you identify the spirals in the photos shown above? Which one does not naturally grow in a spiral shape?
Natuprireed many has ins e man-mat d and in ar spirals—
architecture cial even artifi islands.
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SPORTS
1 hockey puck
4 helmets
4 ice skates
2 tennis balls
1 pair of swim goggles 3 gloves 3 knee pads
9 bowling pins 4 hockey sticks
< FIND THESE ITEMS ON THE SPORTS FIELD. >
TAKE A LOOK!
. s r e d d a l b g pi
were originally m made fro
b
Socalclser
! Fun Fact
1
3
2
CRIMSON CLOVER
SNOUT BEETLE
5
4
MAGGOT
JUMPING SPIDER
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LUNA MOTH
HONEYBEE
The top row of photographs shows extreme close-ups of the same things that appear in the second row, but in a different order. Match the magnified images with the named objects.
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MAGNIFICATION
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PERSPECTIVE
OPTICAL ILLUSION
RED IRISH LORD SCULPIN FISH
AFRICAN SCOPS OWL
Could someone really fall into this crazy volcanic crater? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually just a big painting! An artist used perspective, shading, and other tricks to give the flat street some depth. Find out how this amazing optical illusion works on page 44.
WALKING LEAF
ORCHID MANTIS
!75 percent
Fun Fact
CRABS RABBITS
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About
of all
volcanoes are
CAMOUFLAGE
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A crowd of people and balloons jam a street in Sicily, Italy.
!
Fun Fact
Saturrntly
is made pa
e same
th of heliumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; fill gas used to
. party balloons
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FIND 12 DIFFERENCES between THESE PHOTOGRAPHS.
DOUBLE TAKE
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