Childrens Illustrated Encyclopedia

Whelks These rocky-shore scavengers hunt for dead or dying animals. They are relatives of land snails and find prey by “smelling ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 The greaTesT playwrighT of all time was probably the englishman william ...

HammerHead The eyes and nostrils of the hammerhead shark are on the two “lobes” of its head. Hammerheads prey on stingrays, unha ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 ALL THE WONDERFUL sHELLs you find on the seashore were once the homes of ...

RuddeR and pRopelleR a rotating propeller forces the ship through the water, and the rudder steers the ship. When the rudder twi ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 With the wind to the side of the boat, the sail is drawn in more tightly ...

465 Skeletons 465- Humans and other mammals, fish, birds, and reptiles all have an endoskeleton, or inner skeleton, made up of m ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 466 skeletons The many girders that make up the Eiffel Tower act in the ...

467 Slave ShipS Slavers (slave traders) packed their ships with africans to sail on what was known as the middle passage across ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 468 slavery Abolitionists on both sides of the Atlantic, Quakers, evange ...

469 Slime Snails and slugs make several types of slime. As the slug crawls along, it lays down one kind of slime in patches. Ano ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 470 Milk snake The nonvenomous milk snake shown left is found all over n ...

471 EquipmEnt Cleated shoes are the most important part of a soccer player’s equipment. they enable the player to use both the i ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 472 Recycling All living things eventually rot away, back into the soil. ...

473 Sound We live in a noisy World. The roar of city traffic, the music from a piano, the bark of a dog, all come to our ears as ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_UK_layer_v4 474 South Africa 474- Find out more Africa Africa, history of Elephants ...

475 SOUTH AFRICA Sangoma In some communities of South africa, a person known as a sangoma (sometimes called a “witch doctor”) pe ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 476 Three very differenT Types of landscape dominate the triangular cont ...

SOUTH AMERICA 477 AmAzon The longest river in South America is the Amazon, which rises in the Andes and flows 4,050 miles (6,516 ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_UK_layer_v4 Minerals in Chile Copper is Chile’s largest export. Chuquicamata (above) ...