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sea 6, 56, 133, 144, 155, 157,
180–181, 206, 256, 259, 260
sea lions 132
seals 132, 155
seaweed 146
sedimentary rock 250
seeds 164, 165, 167
seeing 109
Senegal 18, 59
senses 105, 108
Serbia 38, 59
shadows 238
sharks 111, 181, 205
Sierra Leone 18, 58
Sikhism 62, 65
Singapore 69, 58
Sistine Chapel 68
skeletons 105, 106, 120, 128,
135, 144
skin 102, 103, 105, 109, 112,
120, 151
skull 82, 106, 108
skyscrapers 42, 51, 69
Slovakia 34, 58
Slovenia 35, 58
slow worm 136, 166,167
slugs 127
smelling 109
snails 52, 127, 143, 205
snakes 52, 125, 136, 137, 175
snow 159, 230
snowy owl 159
soccer 76
soil 223, 254–255
solar system 272, 274
solids 226, 230
Somalia 19, 59
sonic boom 241
sound 240–241
South Africa 19, 97, 58
Southern Ocean 6–7
South Korea 49, 59
South Pole 56, 246
Soviet Union 36, 221
space 263, 268–269, 270–271,
284–285, 297
spacecraft 271, 286
space probes 288R
rabbi 65
rabies 153
rain 260, 264
rainbow 214, 238
rainforest 147, 162–163
recording studio 71
reflex action 108, 297
religion 61, 62–63, 64–65, 297
reproduction 105, 118–119,
121, 297
reptiles 126, 136–137, 208, 297
reservoirs 179, 297, 258, 259
resources 256–257
ribcage 106, 110
rice 47, 165
Richter scale 216
River Ganges 45, 62
River Nile 84, 85
rivers 156, 176–177, 247, 258, 260
robots 99
rockets 276–277
rocks 219, 250–251
rollercoasters 235
Romania 38, 59
Romans 66, 81, 88, 89
Royal family 22
runes 66, 91, 297
Russian Federation 40–41, 58
Rwanda 19, 58S
saga 91
Sahara Desert 18, 170, 171
salamanders 138, 139, 171
saliva 114
Samurai 95, 297
sand dunes 19, 253
satellites 220, 221, 264, 271,
276, 277
Saudi Arabia 43, 58
savanna 19, 168, 297
scales 136, 137, 144, 145
Scandinavia 20–21, 90
scanners 99, 219
scavengers 155, 297
science 212–213, 220
scientists 212, 218–219, 287
Scotland 22
sculpture 68, 69P
Pacific Islands 55
Pacific Ocean 6–7
painting 60, 68, 69
Pakistan 44, 59
Panama 15, 59
paper 66, 215
Papua New Guinea 47, 59
parachute 215
Paraguay 17, 58
pasteurization 215, 296
Pasteur, Louis 215
penguins 56, 158
penicillin 151, 217
percussion instruments 70, 296
periscopes 238
Peru 16, 59
pesticides 151
pharaoh 80, 84, 85, 296
Philippines 47, 58
photosynthesis 148, 296
pictograms 66
planets 272, 297
plants 123, 146–147, 148–149, 154,
159, 161, 166, 178, 219, 222, 254
plastics 217, 220, 256
play 72
ploughing 255
Pluto 272
Poland 34, 58
polar bears 129, 155, 158
polar regions 158–159
Portugal 30, 58
power stations 96
printing 66–67, 214
properties of matter 224
proteins 117, 222
Protoceratops 197
protons 228
pump 225
puppet show 73
pyramids 84–85Q
Qatar 43, 58
quartz 224, 225, 251
Qur’an (Koran) 63