Childrens Illustrated Encyclopedia

319 lions, tigers, and other big cats Claws out when a cat pounces on a victim, or climbs up into a tree, it unsheathes its shar ...

320 Gulliver is visited by a Lilliputian noble. Plot the collection of events that occur in a work of literature is called the p ...

321 Literature Alphabets Movies Theater Writers and poets Find out more Novels A novel is a long (invented) story, written in pr ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 322 Lizards 322- THE LARGEST GROUP of reptiles is the lizard family, wit ...

323 Komodo dragon The Komodo dragon is the largest lizard—up to 10 ft (3 m) long. It scavenges on dead animals and also catches ...

324 Small and denSely populated, the low Countries are highly developed industrial nations with thriving economies. nearly one-t ...

325 W a dd en zee North Sea Texel Vlieland Terschelling Ameland Schiermonnikoog Goeree Overakkee Schouwen Noord-Beveland Tholen ...

326 Alveolus each alveolus is surrounded by a network of very fine blood vessels called capillaries. oxygen passes from the air ...

327 Machines What do a saW and a computer have in common? Both are machines. one is simple and the other very complex, but both ...

328 Small effort, but the rope has to move a large distance. Gears Gears are interlocking toothed wheels. They can increase forc ...

329 Origin Of magnetism iron contains millions of tiny magnets called magnetic domains. normally, all of the domains point in di ...

330 Mammals 330- most mammals, including monkeys, cats, and dogs, are called placental mammals because the young develop inside ...

331 MaMMal groups There are about 27 main groups of mammals, some of which are shown below. Rodents make up half of all mammals; ...

332 nelson Mandela In february 1990, the 72-year-old nelson Mandela walked into freedom after spending more than 27 years in pri ...

333 One man transfOrmed China from a backward peasant society into one of the most powerful nations in the world. that man was m ...

334 Marsh and s waMp wildlife Cottonmouth most snakes are good swimmers and climbers, and they can travel through swamps with ea ...

335 Sending a Spacecraft to a distant planet is like trying to throw a stone at an invisible moving target. Space scientists do  ...

336 Deep in the tropical forests of Mexico, the Mayan people created one of the most amazing ancient civilizations, which reache ...

337 Medicine Branches of medicine Medicine is a huge subject, and nobody can hope to know it all. Thus doctors, nurses, and othe ...

338 William Harvey in 1628, an english doctor named William Harvey (1578-1657) discovered that blood constantly circulates aroun ...