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How It Works Book of 101 Amazing Facts You Need To Know

How It Works Book Of 101 Things You Need To Know Volume 3
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Welcome to 101 Amazing FACTS you need to know

Why do fish have scales? • Measuring the threat to Earth’s remaining tiger population

What is the life cycle of a frog? • Discover how a cluster of cells transforms into a hopping, croaking amphibian

How does a venus flytrap work? • Insects don’t stand a chance when they land on this killer plant

What are killer plants? • Not satisfied with making food through photosynthesis, these five carnivorous plants capture, kill and eat living prey

What is soil made of? • The ingredients that form one of Earth’s most important natural resources

How do Stalagmites and stalactites form? • Discover the development of these curious subterranean spikes

What is Canada’s Spotted Lake? • Nestled in a mountainous, forested landscape is a masterpiece of nature

Why are the tropics hotter than the equator? • The sheer power of the wind shapes and sculpts whole landscapes over time

What is the life cycle of a pine tree? • The sheer power of the wind shapes and sculpts whole landscapes over time

Do bumblebees make honey? • Do bumblebees produce honey like their honeybee relatives?

What are woodlice? • There’s far more to these little critters than meets the eye

Do penguins get cold feet? • Discover whether penguin also get frozen feet

Why do chickens have combs? • What is that fleshy thing on top of a chickens head?

How do birds know how to migrate? • How do birds operate natures sat nav?

Why is bird poo white? • Why is bird poo so different to other animals?

Why are cats afraid of water? • Discover why cats don’t like taking a dip

How do bats sleep upside down without falling? • How do they manage to stay upside down?

What is the life cycle of an Oyster? • The bivalve molluscs that seem to have the best of both worlds

Why do oysters make pearls? • And how do they do it?

How does GPS work? • The hardware that is in the sky explained

What is a cyborg plant? • Discover how to turn a living rose into an electric circuit

How do seabed mining robots work? • The deep-sea machines that extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor

How do Pinball machines work? • How the ball gets rolling on this arcade classic

What is inside a loud speaker? • Learn how speakers make noise

How does surround sound work? • Discover the science behind this clever technology

What are noise-cancelling headphones? • How does this audio technology use speakers to reduce ambient sound?

How do multicopters take off? • The science and tech that gets commercial drones into the air

What is drone racing? • The new high-octane sport putting quadcopter pilots to the test

Why do computers get hot as you use them? • Learn why our devices start to overheat with use

How does temperature affect battery power? • What is actually happening when your battery heats up?

Are electronics designed to break? • Are our devices programmed to fail after a certain amount of time?

What are the metals in your phone? • Discover the hidden treasure inside your handheld device

How do computers detect robots? • Bot spotting is an arms race between websites and spammers

What happens inside a smoke detector? • Annoying when toast burns, but these ear-piercing devices save lives

What are rubbish islands? • Building houses on floating plastic bottles is the ultimate in eco-living

Do we know the science behind a BBQ? • It takes physics, chemistry and biology to grill a perfect burger

Why does coffee spill? •...


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Frequency: One time Pages: 132 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: How It Works Book Of 101 Things You Need To Know Volume 3

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: July 22, 2016

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OverDrive Magazine

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Science

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English

Please type the description of the issue

Welcome to 101 Amazing FACTS you need to know

Why do fish have scales? • Measuring the threat to Earth’s remaining tiger population

What is the life cycle of a frog? • Discover how a cluster of cells transforms into a hopping, croaking amphibian

How does a venus flytrap work? • Insects don’t stand a chance when they land on this killer plant

What are killer plants? • Not satisfied with making food through photosynthesis, these five carnivorous plants capture, kill and eat living prey

What is soil made of? • The ingredients that form one of Earth’s most important natural resources

How do Stalagmites and stalactites form? • Discover the development of these curious subterranean spikes

What is Canada’s Spotted Lake? • Nestled in a mountainous, forested landscape is a masterpiece of nature

Why are the tropics hotter than the equator? • The sheer power of the wind shapes and sculpts whole landscapes over time

What is the life cycle of a pine tree? • The sheer power of the wind shapes and sculpts whole landscapes over time

Do bumblebees make honey? • Do bumblebees produce honey like their honeybee relatives?

What are woodlice? • There’s far more to these little critters than meets the eye

Do penguins get cold feet? • Discover whether penguin also get frozen feet

Why do chickens have combs? • What is that fleshy thing on top of a chickens head?

How do birds know how to migrate? • How do birds operate natures sat nav?

Why is bird poo white? • Why is bird poo so different to other animals?

Why are cats afraid of water? • Discover why cats don’t like taking a dip

How do bats sleep upside down without falling? • How do they manage to stay upside down?

What is the life cycle of an Oyster? • The bivalve molluscs that seem to have the best of both worlds

Why do oysters make pearls? • And how do they do it?

How does GPS work? • The hardware that is in the sky explained

What is a cyborg plant? • Discover how to turn a living rose into an electric circuit

How do seabed mining robots work? • The deep-sea machines that extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor

How do Pinball machines work? • How the ball gets rolling on this arcade classic

What is inside a loud speaker? • Learn how speakers make noise

How does surround sound work? • Discover the science behind this clever technology

What are noise-cancelling headphones? • How does this audio technology use speakers to reduce ambient sound?

How do multicopters take off? • The science and tech that gets commercial drones into the air

What is drone racing? • The new high-octane sport putting quadcopter pilots to the test

Why do computers get hot as you use them? • Learn why our devices start to overheat with use

How does temperature affect battery power? • What is actually happening when your battery heats up?

Are electronics designed to break? • Are our devices programmed to fail after a certain amount of time?

What are the metals in your phone? • Discover the hidden treasure inside your handheld device

How do computers detect robots? • Bot spotting is an arms race between websites and spammers

What happens inside a smoke detector? • Annoying when toast burns, but these ear-piercing devices save lives

What are rubbish islands? • Building houses on floating plastic bottles is the ultimate in eco-living

Do we know the science behind a BBQ? • It takes physics, chemistry and biology to grill a perfect burger

Why does coffee spill? •...


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