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Hayley from New Zealand wrote:What kind of pandas lives in the wild and also in the zoos as well as china's bushes and native environment?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Hayley,
Two kinds of pandas live in the wild forests of China and in zoos, they are the Giant Panda and the Red Panda. You can find out more about each in our Glossopedia by clicking on the links below.
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Zeenat from the United States wrote:What do plants produce which is so important to the composition of the atmosphere?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Zeenat,
Plants produce two very important gases that compose the atmosphere - oxygen (during the daylight) and carbon dioxide (at night). The oxygen plants produce is very important and insures life on Earth can exist. That's why plants are often times called the "lungs of the Earth".
You can learn more about plants in Glossopedia by clicking on the picture below.
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Taliyah from the Arctic Ocean wrote:How big are baby pandas when they are first born?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Taliyah,
Baby pandas are very small when they are first born - like kittens - about as big as your fist. The mother panda carries the baby in her mouth and cradles it in her paw.
You can get a better idea of their size if you look at the pictures in our Glossopedia article about giant pandas. You can get to the article by clicking on the picture below.
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Tara from South Africa wrote:Does a platypus lay eggs for sure?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Tara
YES! Definitely, a platypus lays eggs. In fact, the platypus is one of only two kinds of mammals in the world that lays eggs, the other, also lives in Australia and in New Guinea, is called an Echidna. Both the platypus and echidnas are egg-laying mammals scientists call Monotremes.
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Erin from Australia wrote:Hi.I am Erin and i am wondering if you have any information on dinosars? i am sorry if i didnt spell that right. Well, thank you for your help. I will maybe ask you agian sometime. lol lmao mwah bye cya?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Erin,
No, sorry we don't have an article on dinosaurs yet - but one is being created - we hope to have it up in a few months (in 2009).
We do have stories almost every week on our In The News section at http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/inthenews.aspx. This is a good place to check every week because scientists are finding new dinosaur bones all the time.
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Aracely from the United States wrote:How fast can a cheetah eat an antelope? Do you know how fast a cheetah can run? Can you tell me if human can run as fast as dog? How big is rhinoceros and a hippo?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Aracely,
Wow, you have a lot of questions! Let's start with cheetahs.
1) After catching an antelope the cheetah is out of breath and needs to rest maybe 15 to 30 minutes before eating. If nothing bothers her or him, the cheetah will eat for about 30-60 minutes. But they rarely eat the whole antelope themselves. Other animals like lions, hyenas, jackals and vultures clean up what the cheetah can't finish.
2) Cheetahs are the fastest land mammals. Cheetahs can run up to 113 kph.
3) No, humans can not run as fast as most dogs.
4) Rhinos average 2-3m long and weigh up to 3,600kg. (you can find more on
Glossopedia. Click on the picture below to explore Rhinos.)
)Hippos weigh about 1,200 to 1,800 kilograms.
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LaDerica from Australia wrote:What country do koalas live in? And what state?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi LaDerica,
Koalas live only in the country of Australia. Inside Australia they are limited to living in the temperate Eucalyptus forests of the eastern states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. They also live in a small area around the Australian national capitol of Canberra. All other places where you can find koalas, they have been introduced by humans - like Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
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Pepper from Canada wrote:When did Hinduism first begin?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Pepper,
Hinduism, the world is oldest religion - it goes back at least 5,000 years. No one know exactly when it began--it started before people recorded history. It has no human founder. Hinduism has four main denominations--Saivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism and Smartism.
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GLOBIO Traveling Teacher
Talia from New Zealand wrote:
How can our solar system never end? It has to end at some time doesn't it?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Talia,
That is a great question that one no one knows the answer to. Scientists are trying to understand how big the universe is, where it started and where it could end, but we just don't know. Living here on Earth we are just a small part of the universe. It may take many hundreds of more years before any scientists discovers the answer to your question.
Maybe think about this: circles never end. Maybe our universe is like that?
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Semaj from the United States wrote:What energy does the sun bring?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Semaj,
The sun sends (radiates) off energy mostly in the form of heat and light and small stream of charged particles called gamma rays. As the energy leaves the hot sun surface and travels across the solar system to Earth it travels in constant waves - like on the surface of the ocean or a river. The waves enter Earth's atmosphere and slow down. They are critical to maintaining life on Earth.
You can find out more about our Sun by clicking on the picture below. It will take you to the Sun article in Glossopedia.
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Salman from Saudi Arabia wrote:What role do Rainforests play in maintaing the Earth's weather?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Salman,
Wow, that's a good question - rainforests are critical at helping maintain the Earth's weather, especially clean air and rainfall. The information is best found in our Glossopedia article on Tropical Rainforests. You can find it by clicking on the picture below. After looking at the article if you have a question not answered there please write us back.
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Dasha from Ireland wrote:Who was the first person to discover food?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Dasha,
That's an interesting question. The first person to discover food would have been the first person on Earth - because they needed to eat. The first people probably ate what they found - like fruits, berries, bird eggs and things they could catch like fish. No one knows who that was. A grain like wheat called Emmer was probably the first food humans grew - about 19,000 years ago. We don't know the exact person who discovered how to grow Emmer.
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GLOBIO Traveling Teacher
Hope from the United States wrote:Why do hurricanes only come to the coast and not in the middle of the U.S.?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Hope,
That's a good question. Hurricanes need warm water for energy to keep spinning. They can only be create and survive when over the water. When a hurricane hits land it starts to lose speed and slows down until it is just strong wind and rain. If winds do spin fast over the land they create a different shape and usually don't have lots of rain - we call that a Tornado.
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Shaskia John from South Africa wrote:What are the oldest living things (that are still alive today) in the world?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Shaskia John,
The oldest living things still alive today are called Stromatolites (pronounced - stroh-MAT-toh-LITES). These are blue-green algae, little one-celled creatures, that live in the warm shallow ocean water along the west coast of Australia. They grow very slowly. The small mounds they for look a little like coral. Stromatolites are the most common thing scientists find amongst the Earth's oldest fossils from 3.5 million years ago.
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Karan from India wrote:What is global warming?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Karan,
That's a very important question. Global warming means: an increase in the average temperature near the Earth's surface (ocean and land). Some of things that may make the temperature rise are caused by natural events like gases from volcanoes and other events are caused by humans, such as exhaust from vehicles and cutting of large areas of forest. If this warming continues every year then it creates Climate Change. Many people use the term Global Warming and Climate Change to mean the same thing - but they are not exactly the same. Climate Change means any changes in the climate - not always warmer, it could be colder, and it could mean more rain or storms like typhoons. Climate change has been going on since the beginning of the Earth
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Perla from Puerto Rico wrote:what are the kind of animal that live in the temperate forest because my class is doing a project with it can you please help me?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Perla,
That's a good question, but it has many answers. The answer depends on which temperate forest you want to know about - there are temperate forests on every continent. In North America you might find black bears, deer, squirrels and cougars, but if you travel to China you find giant pandas, red pandas, Asiatic black bears, and golden monkeys. So it really depends on which temperate forest you are curious about. Write us back and maybe we can help more.
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Anaga from the United States wrote:where do oranges grow?
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Anaga,
Oranges grow in most tropical and sub-tropical countries where the days are hot and the night do not freeze - places like Brazil, Central America, Mexico, Italy, Morocco, Israel, Australia, Kenya, USA (Florida and
California) and south China. The orange fruit originally came from Southeast Asia.
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Ariana P. from the United States wrote:
when was earth born
GLOBIO Traveling Teacher says:
Hi Ariana,
Scientists testing rocks believe that Earth, and the rest of the solar system, began to form about 4.5 billion years ago in a giant cloud of dust and gas. Over time, dust particles began to clump together. It probably took the clump that became Earth tens of millions of years to reach its current size. The young Earth had no water, no atmosphere, and no life-forms.
A little over 3.5 million years ago life started to appear on the new Earth.
You can read more about the Earth on Glossopedia:
http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=55&art_nm=Earth
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