BHUMA DEVI N X - A

What comes after million, Billion and Trillion?

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K. HARI PRIYA XII - B

G. SARANYA XI - C

S. SRINITHI X - A

FACTS ABOUT BUTTERFLY:

*Butterfly wings are transparent.

*There are almost 20,000 butterfly species.

*Butterflies use their feet to taste.

*Butterflies only live for a few weeks.

*The most common butterfly in the US is the Cabbage White.

*Some butterfly species migrate from the cold.

*One of the largest butterflies is the Giant Swallowtail butterfly.

*Butterflies have a liquid diet.

*Butterfly wings help them against predators.

*Butterflies actually have four wings, not two.

DHAKSHANA S , VI A

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS

A snail can sleep for three years at a time.
A blue whale weights as much as three elephants and it is as long as three buses.
A Bat can eat up to 1 thousand insects per hour.
Octopuses have three hearts.
Honey bees can flap their wings 200 times per second.
The Bat is the only mammal that can fly.
Some dogs are fast and could even beat a cheetah!
The heart of a shrimp is located in its Head.
Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
A Rhinocero's horn is made of Hair.
Nearly three percent of the ice in antarctic glaciersis penguin unine.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a life time.
An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Around 50 percent of orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees on a regular basis.

S. BALAJI, XII

Ants are one of the most interesting and diverse group of insects. All known species of ants are eusocial. The branch of science which deals with the study of ants is called as "Myrmecology".

FACTS ABOUT ANTS :

* There are over 12,000 ant species worldwide.

* The bullet ant is said to have the most painful sting in the world.

*Ants are the longest living insects.

*The ant is one of the world's strongest creatures in relation to its size.

*Ants hold the record for the fastest movement in the animal kingdom.

*Ants can be found on every single continent except Antarctica.

*Ants are social insects which live in colonies.

*Ants do not have ears and some of them don't have eyes!

*The largest ant's nest ever found was 3,700 miles wide.

D. LAVANYA SREE , VIII A

AMAZING FACT ABOUT OUR SKIN

The skin is the largest organ in the human body and accounts for 15% of your body weight. You have about 20 square feet of skin on you.

Skin renews itself furiously 50,000cells are lost and renewed every minute.

At this rate you are in completely new skin every 28 days

The moisture content of skin is 10 to 20 %any thing less than 10%makes your skin dry flaky