Why is the eardrum named the eardrum? Why was John Herrington called the Golden Eagle? Why is the Mekong River called the mother of waters? Why is methanol called wood alcohol? Why are quark types called flavors? Why is it called a monkey puzzle tree?
Why is the Cretaceous called the chalk period?Chalk:Chalk is made of calcite, which is a form of calcium carbonate, or limestone. It is a sedimentary rock with high porosity, most commonly found in Europe. Perhaps the most famous chalk deposit is the White Cliffs of Dover....
(4)how long does it ___ to get to you home?(同上) 8. asleep:adj. 睡着的 (1)don’t make any noise. the baby is asleep.(=sleeping) (2)fall asleep:入睡,同义词组:get /go to sleep he’s so tired that he ___ soon. a. slept b. fell asleep c. was asleep d. went to b...
Is a penguin a dinosaur? Penguins are dinosaurs. It's true. Way back in the Jurassic, birds were just one of many, many dinosaur lineages. ... Fossil penguin skin found in Antarctica, for example, has underscored the hypothesis that non-avian dinosaurs were fluffier than we presently know...
Lozos said most earthquakes are small and last for a very short period of time — a second or less. “And there are so many other things that can cause movement like that, that it might not even be something you think to check. So, later on, when the earthquake is on the news, ...
“They can’t touch each other, they can’t reach the mouth, and their mobility is so limited that they can’t stretch very far, either forward or upward. The enormous head and neck are way out in front of them and pretty much form the kind of death machine you saw in ‘Jurassic...
He2 (want) to travel to the future, but something 3 (happen), and he 4 (go) back to the age of the dinosaurs(恐龙). At first, the professor 5 (be) very excited. It was an opportunity(机会) for him to study the Jurassic Period(侏罗纪). The Sparks 6 (see) ...
At first blush, it sounds like a line from Jurassic Park, the fictional dream of resurrecting creatures long dead: “We have the DNA, the technology and the leading experts in the field. Next, we will have the woolly mammoth. Alive again.” But this is a very real statement from Dallas...
It is only when the cold season approaches that aphids begin to produce male babies so that both genders of offspring can mate and thus produce fertilised eggs (rather than living babies) that can survive the winter period. Similarly, ant, stinging wasp, and honeybee queens can control the ...
None of this is their fault; it’s ours, since we keep negligently burning fossil fuels. Second, there’s the stegosaurus. When I Googled Woodward County, the weirdest thing came up: a Jurassic-era dinosaur, about as tall as a one-story building, with a little girl riding on its ...