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Angie’s Temping! (Good Question!)
Hey everyone! Angie here, and I'm temping for Good Question! until it finds a columnist! So get ready for some fun facts, some questions to be answered, and more! But I can't make this page awesome if you guys won't tell me what you want to see! So keep the questions coming and let me know if you want to see some fun facts about a certain subject!Fun Facts on: Animals (Good Question!)
There are only three animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard. Camels have three eye lids. Flying squirrels don’t really fly, they glide from branch to branch. A blanket-like furry skin stretches their front and hind legs, and acts as a parachute, enabling the squirrel to soar like a kite. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. No two zebras have the same striped pattern. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. A beaver can hold it's breath for 45 minutes. Toucans are found only in tropical areas of Central and South America. Some Toucan species have bills more than half as long as their bodies. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. The longest recorded life span of a tapeworm was 35 years! Roadrunners are large (about two feet long) crested birds that prefer to run rather than fly. They eat rattlesnakes whole, and they can sprint 15 miles per hour. A purple finch is really crimson in color. You're 20 timesstruck by lightning than to be bit by a rattlesnake. A male Angler fish attaches itself to a female and never lets go. Their vascular systems unite and the male becomes entirely dependent on the female's blood for nutrition. Bengal tigers are the most water loving of the big cats. They will even chase prey into the water. All of these fact can be found at http://www.backwoodsbound.com/ffanimals.htmlAweseome Statistics (Good Question!)
Here are some really cool statistics that I found at http://www.funnyfact.com12 percent of lightning strikes occur at golf courses.
Nearly ninety percent of food’s flavor comes from its smell.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a speed of a millionth of a second.
The world’s biggest hot dog was 1,996 feet long, created by Sara Lee Corp. in honor of the 1996 Olympics. A 1,983 foot hot dog was made in May 1983 by Bill-Mar Foods of Zeeland, Wis. A 2,377-foot chicken dog was made in 1985 by Maple Lodge Farms in Norval, Canada. In 1978, David Berg of Chicago made a six-foot, 681-pound beef hot dog in a 100-pound poppy seed bun covered with two gallons of mustard.The most popular hot dog topping among adults is mustard (87.6%). Among children, it is ketchup.
The Martian year in earth days is 687 days. A year is the length of time it takes the planet to revolve once around the sun.
The CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario Canada was the world’s tallest freestanding structure on land from 1975 until the Burj Dubai surpassed it in 2007, rising 553.33 m (1,815 ft). It is currently the world’s tallest completed freestanding structure on land.
The statue of liberty is 151 feet 1 inches tall and weighs 204.1 tons.
Odds of hitting a jackpot with a slot machine are 889 to 1.
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Tips on How to Study Right (School Girl)
Okay, admit it. We have all been waiting for this one! Seems like a good topic to start off with! Especially now that school has just started, we all want to start on the right foot, especially when it comes to grades. Be sure to use these tips to study right, and to be the best you can be!- Find a good place to study. If you get distracted easily, you might want to set up a study area. In your study area, try not to do things like, eat, sleep, watch TV, or even dream of cute boys. Sorry girls, but we have to train ourselves to concentrate if we are ever going to ace this test! If you concentrate well and don't get distracted easily, try to study in a different place with each subject. That way, you will be able to recall information that you studied in the certain place!
- Try using the assigned information to make an "easy" outline. It's not hard! Just right down chapter titles, headings, and subheadings. Don't include any details and try to study that for about fifteen minutes. This will help you create organization in your long term memory to get ready for the test. Then, once you study details, you will know where to "store" them in your brain, and it will be easier to recall information when you are taking the test! This is a good way to study if you are taking and essay test or a multiple choice test.
- Make photocopies of any diagrams, boxes, or maps in your textbook and notes. White out the information or labels in them and make at least five copies of them without the information. Then, use the original copy to fill in the blanks. After doing a couple of practice ones, try to do a few without looking. Aim to do about two or three without looking. This will help you break up long, boring study sessions and help you remember it when you have to fill in the information on the test.
- One of the best techniques to use when you study is to try teaching the information to someone who is unfamiliar, or struggling, with the information. It is amazing how much success this creates when it comes to doing well on tests. Make sure when you teach to teach it all the way through, without missing anything. Make sure to ask questions! Teach your mom, your brother, a friend, or even you cat! Anything works!
- Rent a movie! If are studying history, social studies, or science, rent a non fiction documentary on the subject and time frame that your are studying. If you are studying a language such as Spanish or french, rent a movie you have seen before (Disney movies are great!) and watch it without subtitles. Pop some popcorn and invite some friends from your class to come over and watch it with you! Make it a study sleepover!
- If you are studying math, go into the chapter review and do a few problems that look a bit harder than the ones the will be on the test. It will make the test material seem easier, and you will be able to finish the test quicker with more confidence!
- Another good way to study is to write out a whole bunch of bold words from textbooks or power point lectures. Then, as you read the material, any other words that you think will be important on the test. Then, make some flashcard with the words you wrote down. Write the definition on the back and study them! Make sure after studying for a while that you take out the words that you know so that you are only focusing on the things you don't know.
- Last, but not least, don't waste your shower time! Stick a diagram, outline, or notes into a zip-lock bag and tape it onto your shower walls. Now, you can study and rinse at the same time!