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Presents... 3 Check It Out! 4 Wet and Wild 6 Wonderful Water 8 10 Wet Sports Facts 10 Water Music 11 How to Pet a Dolphin 12 Draw a Dolphin 14 Oceans of Water 16 Puzzles 18 Wide World of Waterfalls 20 A Fish Story 22 Ride the Waves 23 Snorkeling Fun 24 Water Games Party 26 Swimmers and the Soap 27 Max & Gracie 28 From a Drop of Water 29 Kids Corner 30 Puzzle Solutions 2
We need water. We appreciate water. We have fun with water. Here are a few fun facts about water. Use these to quiz your friends. See if anyone gets them all correct. 1. What percentage of Earth’s surface is covered with water? 71% 2. What are the two kinds of water? fresh water and salt water 3. How many of our senses can we use to describe pure water? All but taste and smell. We can see it, hear it, and touch it. Pure water has no taste and no smell. 4. What percentage of your body is made up of water? 67% 5. What percentage of water makes up a little mouse? the same, 67% 6. How much of all the water on Earth is drinkable? 3%. The rest, 97%, is salt water. 7. Where can we find the most fresh water? 68% is in glaciers and icecaps. Most of Earth’s fresh water is frozen.
Now settle back under a tree or on the porch. Sip a nice glass of ice water as you discover all the ways to enjoy water. Then plan your next water adventure and tell us all about it. Most importantly, have fun! MaszaS/Shutterstock.com
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How can you best enjoy water? Visiting a swimming pool, lake, or ocean has many benefits. For more of a thrill, the waterpark is your answer. Did you know there are over 1200 of these parks just in the United States? There is likely one within driving distance of your home. Waterparks have a variety of slides and wave pools. Some have added features. You might visit one that has rope bridges or slides that go through a castle. Others have rafts that float families through swift-moving canyons with lots of waves. One park takes kids on side-by-side tube slides that go underwater through a dolphin habitat. Many include water coasters. These are like roller coasters on water. They use two-person rafts that zip around on water slide tracks with sudden drops and passing through dark tunnels. Outdoor waterparks can be very big. One in Wisconsin is the size of 12 football fields. These huge parks offer areas for every age level. They all have different types of slides. Some are as long as a mile! Many have wave pools the size of small lakes. There, you can learn to stand and surf on a surfboard. You don’t need the ocean.
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Do you live in a region with winter weather? Visit an indoor water park. Here, the temperature is always in the 70s or 80s. It doesn’t matter what the weather is outside. These indoor parks may be smaller but still have lots of water adventures. One park takes the riders on a raft through a 24-foot funnel. At the end, they fly into 40-foot waves. Another park offers a white water rafting slide that simulates a real river expedition. By visiting an indoor park in the winter, you will feel like you are on a warm-weather vacation.
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Water parks have evolved from simple water slides to specialized parks where the focus is on one water-based activity, like surfing. With so many different waterparks, there is something for everyone. A trip to a waterpark is the perfect way to beat the heat in the summer or enjoy the heat in the cold of winter.
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by Janette C. Seinen
Water – that wonderful stuff that flows from your tap at the twist of a handle. Where would you be without it? Imagine having no water to fill your water balloons, wash your dog, or give gardens a drink. Try to fill the aquarium, go fishing, take a shower, or hose the mud off your bike without water. You couldn’t do it. Water is a colorless, tasteless, odorless mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. The scientific symbol is H2O, which means two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen. Water can be frozen then melted, heated, evaporated, and combined with other things.
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Water covers most of Earth. It gives our planet its bluish color.
All living things, from the tiniest bug to the tallest ponderosa pine tree, depend on water to live and grow. A person could live a few weeks without food but only a few days without water. Water has many forms. It can be great surging ocean waves or a creeping glacier. It might be steam, a snowball, or the rain in a hurricane. When most things freeze, they become more dense and heavier. Not water. As water freezes, it expands in size. It also becomes less dense, so it can float, like an ice cube or an iceberg. There is water in every part of the world in different amounts. More than 90% of our planet’s water is found in the oceans. Ocean water is salt water. Water has a restless nature. It is always in motion. As the sun shines on our oceans and lakes, water evaporates into the air. The water condenses and forms clouds that are blown over the continents and islands. As the clouds get heavier, they drop the water as precipitation – rain or snow. Water is used for so many things. We enjoy it for swimming and skating and running through a sprinkler on a hot day. Water is wonderful!
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by Dottie Smith Here are three ways of making music with water. You’ll need to use glass bottles, jars, or drinking glasses. Our first try will be the WATER BOTTLE. This instrument is super-simple to make. Take a glass bottle shaped like a pop bottle. Add a little water inside the bottle. Now blow into it. This takes a little technique. Purse your lips and blow straight down into the bottle. After you figure out how to do it, add more water. Blow again. Did the tone go up or down the musical scale? Our second instrument will be GLASS BELLS. This one is also easy to make but harder to master. Take eight glass jars or tall glasses. Line them up in a straight line. Fill the one to your far left almost full of water. The one to your far right needs almost no water. Tap these two glasses gently with a spoon. You hear two different sounds, don’t you? Fill the middle six glasses with just the right amount of water to make a musical scale. Keep changing the amounts of water until you get the note or sound you want from each glass. Use your voice or a piano to help tune the glasses. Now you have an instrument you can play simple tunes with! The third instrument will be the WATER HARP. Ask your parent for permission to make this one. Take several glasses with stems and put different amounts of water in them. Then rub or slide your fingers around the rims of the glasses. With some practice, you should hear soothing, unique sounds. Tune them using different amounts of water as you do with the water bottle and the glass bells. Water is everywhere. That’s means you can never be without music!
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by Michelle M. Barone You’re standing on a dock. Suddenly, a shiny gray head pops out of the water. Soft dark eyes look into yours. A dolphin opens its mouth in a toothy grin. It bobs its head up and down at you. You hear a clicking sound. “Come in and play,” it seems to say. There are a few important things for you to know. First, get into the water calmly. Don’t yell or jump in. Dolphins can hear 10 times better than people. Loud splashes hurt the dolphin’s sensitive ears. Speak to it sweetly, like you would to your pet. Once you’re in the water, wait for the dolphin to come to you. Dolphins are friendly and like to be touched. Open your hand flat, and pet the dolphin with your palm. Don’t use your fingertips. Even short fingernails can cut or scratch the dolphin’s skin. Move your hand back and forth to rub the dolphin. It feels like smooth, wet rubber! The 200- to 400-pound body feels solid under the slick skin. Be sure not to poke the dolphin’s eyes while you’re petting its head. Don’t touch or cover its blow hole. That would be like having someone plug your nose while they’re hugging you! Take care not to poke or plug the dolphin’s ear holes, either. As the dolphin swims around you, it might nudge you with its nose. You may be able to touch the flippers. Look at your hands. Dolphins have the same finger bones in their flippers as you have in your hands and fingers. Dolphins use their flippers to steer while they swim. The dorsal fin helps with steering too. If you gently hold onto it, you may get a short ride through the water. When it’s time to go, thank the dolphin. Dolphins are smart, so if you wave good-bye, don’t be shocked if the dolphin waves back. There’s nothing like petting a dolphin. If you get the chance, now you’ll know what to do!
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by Andrew Wales
Dolphins are playful, active, and energetic water creatures. They do flips and somersaults, leaping high out of the water. Let’s learn how to draw a dolphin step-by-step. The broken lines you see in the illustrations represent lines that we will erase later.
1. We’ll begin by drawing a circle for the front part of the head. Now draw two curved shapes that overlap part of the circle. These will make up the dolphin’s snout.
2. Let’s draw an upper curved line, making the top of the dolphin. Next comes a lower curved line, making the stomach and underside. Notice that these two curved lines get closer together as we come to what will be the tail.
3. For the beginnings of the flippers, we’ll draw the left flipper just under the dolphin’s head. The right flipper goes a bit farther back.
4. Now we’ll draw a large round dot for the eye. This is the time to erase the left side of the
circle that made up the head area. We’ll also erase some of the lines around the snout area. Let’s also finish the flippers and add a dorsal fin on the dolphin’s back.
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5. Next, let’s add the small dot at the top that is the dolphin’s blowhole. Notice that the muscles in the face make the dolphin always look as if it’s smiling. Time to draw the fin at the end of the tail. This is called the “fluke.” Remember to erase the line that made up the backbone within the dorsal fin area. Also erase the line that was under the right flipper.
6. Now let’s begin shading. Look for areas of dark, medium, and light tones. Try turning your pencil on its side to make an even application of pencil graphite. We want the texture to appear smooth and shiny, not rough-textured.
7. Add your choice of ocean background, and you’re done! Continue to draw other dolphins that you find in books. Why not learn more about them from your library? With your parent, you can visit dolphin websites on the Internet. Write to Fun For Kidz to share what you’ve learned with other readers. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR DOLPHIN CREATIONS! Send your drawings to Kids Corner, PO Box 227, Bluffton, OH 45817-0227, and you may see it in a future issue! Be sure to keep a copy for yourself.
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by Diane Winebar
We live on a watery planet. If you were in space, looking down on Earth, you would see five oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. You would also see that all the world’s oceans are connected. Earth really has one massive ocean broken up by continents! Oceans are vast and mysterious. Just a tiny portion of them has been explored. Let’s dive in and see what’s under the waves.
Swimming with Life A whole other world lies beneath the sea. There are more underwater plants and animals than you can count. We’re talking billions. From tiny one-celled zooplankton to giantsized “monsters,” an incredible variety of creatures call the oceans home. Some you know, like seals, sea turtles, and fish. Many more are unlike anything you’ll ever see on land. Incredible jellyfish have long tentacles and a jelly-like, umbrella-shaped bell. One kind can grow to be over 120 feet long!
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Hidden Mountains and More Oceans conceal deep-sea volcanoes and mountains. The Atlantic hides a mountain range much, much longer than any mountains on land. There are caves, lakes, rivers, and waterfalls that exist under the sea. No one knows how many.
Treasures Beneath the Waves What other wonders lie underwater? People have been traveling on oceans for a very long time. Sometimes ships get caught in a bad storm or become disabled. Down goes a ship and all it was carrying. Items like coins, barrels, and anchors lie on the ocean floor with the ship’s remains. Years later, deep-sea divers go looking for what was left behind. These finds help us know what life was like for long-ago people who once sailed the seas.
The World Needs Oceans • Half the world’s oxygen comes from ocean plants. • Oceans absorb most of the atmosphere’s poisonous carbon dioxide. • They play a major role in Earth’s weather. For example, rain clouds begin over the oceans. Oceans cool us in the summer and warm us in the winter. • More than a billion people depend on the ocean for their living and the food they eat.
Save Our Oceans! Planet Earth couldn’t survive without oceans. But our watery surroundings are in trouble. Garbage and waste find their way into the seas, polluting the water. Ocean plants and animals are being harmed. People are working to make our oceans cleaner and healthier. So, help spread the word – save our oceans!
• Many medicines and cures for disease begin with ocean research.
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created and illustrated by Rebecca Spohn
Look carefully at this underwater picture puzzle. Can you find a mouse, tulip, pencil, cup, house, shoe, apple, spoon, sailboat, bell, and banana?
by Stephanie Kelley
Q: What happens if you trip water? A: there’s a waterfall Q: Where does water sleep? A: in a waterbed Q: What happens if you teach water to ice skate? A: there’s a waterslide Q: What will water say if you ask it for help? A: “Shore!” Q: What’s the tallest body of water? A: a water tower Q: How does water say “Hi!”? A: It waves. Q: What’s water’s favorite day of the week? A: Thirstday Q: Where does water like to live? A: in the watershed
D I S S O L V E S P L A S H R T S K S H T N E T S I O M E M O P E A R E D N U A L I N O A E G H T T R E P A R S C E K I S S M U A D N I E T H B R K N U D L R N Y G S D R R A I F L O I U A R F O M I E E T P F N D B E T R A E by Gertrude Knabbe N N F I H K T W M L A E P E Look forward, backward, up, down, S F D R Y E S B O C T F G S and diagonally to find the words in E L S H E B U R C S U N L S capital letters. Cross the words off the P O S W I S A N G W O O A T list. After all the words are found, the I A S A I L H W T P S E E R letters remaining will spell something W T O O P M A H S H O W E R
relating to water.
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BATHE CLEAN COOK DILUTE DIP DISSOLVE DOUSE DRENCH DRINK DUNK FLOAT FLUSH IRRIGATE
LAUNDER MIST MOISTEN MOP REFRESH RINSE RUB SAIL SATURATE SCRUB SHAMPOO SHOWER SIP
SLOSH SOAK SOAP SPLASH SPONGE STEAM STEEP SUMBERGE SWAB SWIM WASH WET WIPE
by Guy Belleranti
Water is important to us in many ways. Find some of these ways by crossing out the word WATER twelve times in the puzzle below. The remaining letters can then be read as words. You will have to find the word breaks and also put in punctuation.
created and illustrated by Neal Levin
Something fishy is going on here! All six of these fish look the same, but only two are exactly alike. Can you pick them out?
W E D R I N K I T W A T E R A N D I R R I G A T E P L A N T S W A T E R W I T H I T W E W A T E R S A I L S K I W A T E R A N D R A F T O N I T W A T E R W E W A T E R B A T H E S W I M W A T E R A N D F I S H I N I T W H E N I T I S W A T E R F R O Z E N W E C A N S L E D A N D W A T E R S K A T E O N I T W A T E R A N D M A K E W A T E R S N O W M E N W A T E R W I T H I T
created and illustrated by Heather Walker
Find your way through this seashell maze. Begin at the arrow on the left. Be careful not to cross any lines.
Catch the Answers on Page 30.
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by Diane Winebar
Do you like your water dramatic and breathtaking? Let’s take an imaginary trip to find some of the world’s most spectacular waterfalls. They are found on every continent, but we’ll visit only a few. You’ll discover waterfalls that plunge over cliffs thousands of feet high. Other waterfalls fall from much shorter heights. Some spread out like a shiny veil, and some are thin rivers of falling water. They can spill mind-boggling amounts of water or a lot less. Whether they’re short, tall, wide, or narrow, waterfalls are spectacular. It’s time to go. Don’t forget your raincoat! Our first stop is Niagara Falls. These well-known falls are actually a collection of three waterfalls. Niagara Falls is so big and wide, it’s in both The United States and Canada. Of all the waterfalls in the world, Niagara Falls has the most water pouring over it: nearly 750,000 gallons per second!
Victoria Falls
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Blood Falls
Niagara Falls. The US is on the left. Canada is on the right.
Now let’s go to Venezuela, in South America. This is where we’ll find Angel Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall. The water from these falls drops uninterrupted from over 3000 feet up. From very far away, Angel Falls looks like a narrow, wet ribbon of water. It is so long, water often turns into mist before it reaches the bottom! We’re crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Zimbabwe. It’s hard to miss the amazing Victoria Falls. You can hear the roar of water from almost 25 miles away! At 5600 feet wide, this is the widest waterfall on Earth. That’s over one mile wide! All the mist and water spray looks like smoke rising up out of a hole in the ground. People in Zimbabwe call these falls Mosi-oaTunya, which means “The Smoke that Thunders.” Finally, we’ll visit far-off Antarctica. Wait! What? Is there a waterfall on this frozen continent? Yes, there is! The name Blood Falls may not sound too nice, but it describes the falls perfectly. Salty water lies under one of Antarctica’s glaciers and seeps out through cracks in the ice. The water is rich in iron. That’s what gives it its red color. Of all the waterfalls in the world, this one is probably the most unusual!
Angel Falls
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Ride the Waves by Rita Bates
Are you looking for an exciting sport to try? Nineyear-old Jacob Bates of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, says, “You have to try knee boarding. It’s awesome!” Jacob has been knee boarding since he was six and loves every minute of it. In this water sport, a person is pulled behind a boat while holding on to a towrope, like a water skier. The person sits on their heels on the board with a strap over their thighs. “Safety is very important,” Jacob says. “I love to ride, but before I go out, I check my equipment.” Jacob always checks his board, vest, and towrope to make sure they are not torn or knotted. Some knee boarders wear gloves so it’s easier to grip the towrope handle. You need an experienced boat driver. Having a spotter on board is extremely important. Someone should always be keeping an eye on the knee boarder. Jacob laughs, “When I wipe out trying to jump a wave, the spotter tells the driver to turn the boat around to pick me up.” The speed the boat should be traveling depends on the weight of the knee boarder. Jacob says, “I weigh 90 pounds, so the boat should be going about 18 miles per hour. It took time for Jacob to learn to get up and strapped in without losing his balance. “When I first began, it was too hard to start in deep water. I always started from shore. It’s much easier when you are already strapped to the board.” What does Jacob like best about knee boarding? “Definitely the wake jumping! It feels just like going over a skateboarding ramp.”
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So, what’s next on Jacob’s list of things to try? “I would like to start competing. I think I am ready, and I have a great time when I’m out on the water!”
Snorkeling Fun by Alan James Garber
Would you like to swim like a fish in the big blue sea? Try snorkeling! Even if you can’t swim very well, you can snorkel. All you have to do is lie facedown in the water and enjoy the view. Your gear will do the rest. A face mask will protect your eyes and help you see clearly in the water. It also covers up your nose, so water doesn’t get in when you breathe. A snorkel tube fits in your mouth and sticks up out of the water. It lets you breathe while swimming. Swim fins on your feet help you swim easily and quickly. They give you the power you need to dive down to look at things on the ocean floor. Snorkeling is best done close to shore, near reefs, rocks, ledges, and other underwater structures. That’s where coral, sponges, and seaweed grow. Small fish and other sea life live in and around these things. Coral, sea fans, and sea anemones are some of the most interesting and beautiful things you’ll see while snorkeling. But don’t touch any of them. You can hurt them or yourself. A careless movement or fin kick can break off the arms of some sea creatures. Seeing the vibrant colors all around will astound you. Many of the fish will come right up to you. Others will hide in the nooks and crannies of rocks and coral. Just float or swim slowly while watching the floor. After a few minutes, the timid fish will come out. Be careful, though. Sudden movements might send them back into hiding. Once you try snorkeling, you’ll be hooked!
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by Tracey Cox • illustrations by Rebecca Spohn
Beat the heat this summer by having a party where you play water games. Invite your friends and family over. Tell them to bring their swimming suits, sunscreen, beach towel, and a snack to enjoy when the events are done. Then get ready to have a wild, wet time!
You will need: • water! • wading pool • lots of marbles • chairs • plastic bowls 24
• four 5-gallon buckets • lots of plastic cups • four funnels • four empty 2-liter bottles • two sponges
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wading pool, marbles, chairs for each player, bowls for each player
Fill the pool with water and place marbles in pool. Each player sits in a chair with a bowl beside them. On GO, players use their toes to pick up the marbles and put them in the bowl. Players have 1 minute to collect as many marbles as they can. Count the marbles in the bowl when time is up. Whichever player has the most marbles is the winner.
two 5-gallon buckets filled with water, plastic cups for each player, two funnels, two empty 2-liter bottles
Divide players into 2 teams. Each team stands behind a bucket. Give each player a plastic cup, except for the last person in each line. The last person holds the funnel in the 2-liter bottle. On GO, the first person in line dips their cup into the bucket and fills their cup. Then they pour their water into the cup behind them. This goes on down the line, until the last person collects the water in the last cup using the funnel in the 2-liter. The first team to fill their bottle up wins.
two 5-gallon buckets filled with water, plastic cups for each player, two funnels, two empty 2-liter bottles
Line up the players into 2 teams. Place buckets 20 feet away from the teams. Give the first person in each line a sponge. Choose 1 person in each team to hold a funnel in the 2-liter bottle. On GO, the first person races to the bucket and soaks up as much water as they can with their sponge. Then they place the sponge on their head and race back to the person with the bottle and wring out the water into the funnel. They hand the sponge to the next person in line. The first team to fill their bottle wins.
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This is a science joke you can show your friends.
What You Need:
a soup bowl half full of water • a pepper shaker • a bar of soap
Here’s The Joke Do what is in the parentheses as you tell the story. Be sure your friends are watching carefully. This joke happens very quickly. “Imagine that you are a giant, and you are looking at a swimming pool.” (Point to the bowl of water.) “Some people believe that kids do not like water, but that’s not true.”(Sprinkle some pepper on the water. Sprinkle it lightly all over the surface.) “Just imagine each grain of pepper is a kid. This is what kids in a swimming pool would look like to a giant. Look at how much fun they are having. See, kids really do like water. But watch what happens when someone puts a bar of soap in the water.” (Show the bar of soap. Touch a corner of it to the center of the water.) “Kids LOVE water, but they surely don’t like SOAP!” (As soon as the soap touches the water, every grain of pepper will scoot away from the soap and cling to the sides of the bowl!)
The Science Secret The surface of water is covered with an invisible “skin” called SURFACE TENSION. You can imagine surface tension as a sheet of thin rubber stretched tight. When you sprinkle pepper on the water in the bowl, surface tension supports the grains. SOAP acts like a “knife” and CUTS THROUGH the surface tension. Because surface tension is like rubber, it draws away from the soap. The pepper is drawn back at the same time because it is resting on the surface tension. It looks as though the grains of pepper are “swimming” away from the soap! If you want to repeat this joke, you must rinse the bowl several times and use fresh water. There can be no trace of any soap in the water at the start, or the surface tension will already be broken.
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Marshfield, Massachusetts 9:00 AM Cloudless sky, beautiful day Max and Gracie and their owners, Linda, Craig, and their seven-year-old son, Ed, are driving the back roads of America. Perhaps you have seen Max and Gracie with their heads out the window. If not, here is a letter describing their most recent adventure.
Craig sits under the umbrella and Linda build a sand castle. We’re at the beach, helping Ed water from the ocean. I’m the water to haul a bucketful of reading a book. Gracie heads to ! Thwack! side of the castle walls. Thwack using my tail to strengthen the “Help!” Gracie barks. tilt down the beach. re I reach her, she’s running full I jump up and run over, but befo I run after Gracie. “Woof!” Ed runs after me. “Stop!” Linda runs after Ed. “Wait!” hat happened?” And Craig runs after Linda. “W e, and snatches a hot dog ds in and out of a volleyball gam win ers, bath sun r ove ps jum Gracie re continuing her run. from a young child’s hand befo . One by one we puts his arm out for Gracie to stop and stle whi his s blow d uar Finally, a lifeg nose, their little , but TWO crabs hanging off her one not see We . ped stop ’s she all race to where cie doesn’t think it’s funny. life. I burst out laughing, but Gra crab claws hanging on for dear our sand castle. Along the d the crabs, we walked back to After the lifeguard gently remove ther hot dog! Luckily, I got console Gracie. She even got ano way, everyone stopped to pet and ther. one, too, for being her good bro because she was afraid anothany more water from the ocean er gath to sed refu she rse, cou Of the dug-out space around the suggested that instead of seeing She e. nos her grab ld wou er crab view it as a valley. sand castle as a moat, we should That Gracie is always thinking!
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by Shirley Anne Ramaley Deep below Earth’s surface, it is dark in the cave. Only one sound breaks the silence: a slow drip, drip, drip of water from the cave’s ceiling. Over many thousands of years, each drop of water leaves behind bits of mineral deposits on the ceiling. A soda straw develops and hangs there. It is hollow, and you can almost see through it. It grows very slowly, about 1 inch every 100 years! Then, one day, someone discovers the cave. The person stares in awe at the beautiful soda straws hanging from the ceiling, all made by water drops. Now it’s my turn to stare as I stand in a cave at Kartchner Caverns State Park in Arizona. Soda straws and other stalactites hang from the ceiling. Splat! A drop hits my forehead. I look up. Another drop is forming on a soda straw tip. I hold out my hand. In a few minutes, a drop splashes against my fingers. I want to reach out and touch a soda straw, but I know I can’t. Each one took thousands of years to grow. Even a fingerprint might damage or break it. You can’t drink from a soda straw! It is very fragile. Even so, one soda straw in Kartchner Caverns is over 21 feet long! If a soda straw becomes plugged with minerals, water flows down the outside. It continues to grow as a solid stalactite. Water drops continue to form on the tip and fall. Stalagmites grow up from the floor. These form when the splashes of water hit the ground and leave minerals there. All this occurs only in “living” caves, such as Kartchner. Living caves are humid and full of moisture. All through Kartchner, water drips from the tips of soda straws and other stalactites.
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If you visit a living cave, there’s a good chance a drop of water will land on you. And at night, after all the visitors are gone, the silence is broken only by the slow drip, drip, drip of water.
ATTENTION READERS!
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by Brenna Wolfe, age 8
Dear Editor, How are you? I am fine. I like the comics and science experiments in Fun For Kidz. Next year, I will be in the 3rd grade. We will go to Michigan to see my grandpa and grandma this summer. My dog’s name is Scooter because he scoots. Rick Maurer
by Russell Bailey, age 11 Dear Editor, My name is Rebecca Neal. I am 11 years old and in 4-H. I am raising a 300-pound hog. It’s a lot of work, but I have so much fun with my pig. I named her Patty. She loves to run and play, and she even talks! Patty’s favorite food is apples, and she dislikes oranges. She is a very entertaining pet. My brother, Fletcher, is 9. He has two gerbils. I help take care of them. One is named Flash and the other is Shadow. They are fun, too, especially when they chase each other. My mom and dad work on the farm. Fletcher and I help on the farm too. My grandma lives just down the road from us. We see her almost every day. We have eight issues of Fun For Kidz. Now I just told you about our pets and our family! I’m going to look for my letter in the magazine! Your fan, Rebecca Neal
I think my family is cool. We like to hang around the pool. We go to the park Until it gets dark, Then we go to sleep because we have school! by Robert Reyes, age 10
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Water Ways on page 16
Something Fishy Puzzle on page 16
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ANSWER: There are many different ways of using water.
Fish Mix on page 17 A and D are exactly alike. B is missing a spot. C has its mouth filled in. E has an extra gill. F has its eye filled in.
Seashell Maze on page 17
Wonderful Water on page 17 W E D R I N K I T W A T E R A N D I R R I G A T E P L A N T S W A T E R W I T H I T W E W A T E R S A I L S K I W A T E R A N D R A F T O N I T W A T E R W E W A T E R B A T H E S W I M W A T E R A N D F I S H I N I T W H E N I T I S W A T E R F R O Z E N W E C A N S L E D A N D W A T E R S K A T E O N I T W A T E R A N D M A K E W A T E R S N O W M E N W A T E R W I T H I T
ANSWER: We drink it and irrigate plants with it. We sail, ski, and raft on it. We bathe, swim, and fish in it. When it is frozen, we can sled and skate on it and make snowmen with it.
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