Childrens Illustrated Encyclopedia

MEDICINE, HISTORY OF 339 Blood-letting doctors once believed that too much blood in the body was the cause of disease. they remo ...

340 Medieval Europe 340- Lords and LadIes feasting in castle banquet halls, peasants working on the land, knights in armor—all t ...

mEDIEVAL EUROPE 341 Town scene Trade increased in the later medieval period, making merchants wealthy and powerful. Towns became ...

342 Aluminum The most common metal in Earth’s crust is aluminum. The metal comes from an ore called bauxite, which contains alum ...

343 Mineral wealth Copper, silver, zinc, mercury, and other valuable metals are among the many minerals found in Mexico. Oil is ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Cancer (^) Bay of Campeche^ Yucatan (^) Cha n ...

345 Microscopes electron microscopes objects must be cut into thin slices in order to see them with a microscope. However, a sca ...

346 Nucleus— control center of amoeba Pseudopod (false foot) Cell membrane, the skin around the cell Pollen Microscopic grains o ...

347 Less than 100 years ago, many of the inhabitants of the Middle east were Bedouins—desert-dwelling nomads who lived in tents ...

Middle east 348 Abu DhAbi The rulers of many Middle East states invested income from sales of oil to improve the living conditio ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_UK_layer_v4 (^) Gulf of Oman Stra it^ of^ Hormu z Pe rs ia n G ul f R e d S e a Gul ...

350 Arctic tern the longest migration in the world is made by the Arctic tern. this champion migrator travels from the top of th ...

351 Credit Cards a credit card is a piece of plastic that can be used in place of money. in many countries, credit cards have a ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 352 Mongol Empire In the late 1100s, a masterful chieftain united a grou ...

353 Orangutan the richly colored orangutan is found in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra in Southeast asia. Orangutans spend mos ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 MONKEYS AND APES 354 Gibbon A gibbon’s muscular arms and hands are so lo ...

355 Luna 3 until 1959, the far side of the moon had never been seen. In October of that year, the Russian space probe Luna 3 (ri ...

356 Moisture-loving plants Mosses and liverworts grow beside streams and rivers because they need a damp environment to reproduc ...

357 Continents Collide and grind against one another, while hot, molten rock bubbles beneath earth’s surface. these powerful for ...

Mountain plants High up where trees do not grow, alpine flowers bloom in the short summer. the word alpine means above the tree ...