Basketball is a team sport‚ the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules. Usually‚ two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end. Basketball is one of the world’s most popular and widely viewed sports.[1] A regulation basketball hoop consists of a rim 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through
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Review: Informational Book Review Bugs Are Insects- written by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Steve Jenkins‚ published 2001. This is an informational book‚ which is intended for children between the ages 3 to 6yrs old. The book‚ Bugs Are Insects‚ talks about insects that are found in our everyday environment. In addition‚ the book briefly explains the basic characteristics of the insects. Before reading this book I would ask them: Name several insects that you are familiar with? Is the picture
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Social Insects “The little things that run the world”- E.O. Wilson Social Insects I. Levels of sociality II. Castes and Polyethism III. Social insect examples IV. Ecological success Society • A group of individuals that belong to the same species and are organized in a cooperative manner. Aggregations • Non-social grouping of individuals Monarch butterflies aggregating Levels of Sociality • • • • • Solitary Subsocial Parasocial Eusocial Presocial Classification system
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THE USE OF INSECTS AS A FOODSOURCE. IS IT THE DREAM OF IDEALISTS OR THE WAY OF THE FUTURE? 12/5/2013 THE USE OF INSECTS AS A FOOD SOURCE It is a fact that over seventy percent of the words populous derive some level of protein and nutrients from insect-based food sources. In this country‚ it is looked at as uncouth or taboos to even consider such an act as consuming
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Insects in the Sea After reading multiple discussion board posts‚ I realized that many students had great examples as to why insects are not found in the sea. I found three specific hypotheses that I supported. The fact that insects need oxygen to survive‚ their size ratio compared to their predators‚ and their inability to survive in salt were the three hypothesis of my choosing‚ First‚ the simple fact that insect need oxygen to survive. In the lectures‚ we discussed how some insects live
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Hum of Insects – Robert Lynd As the hum of insects and noises of birds are associated with nature and seasons‚ so are they connected to our life‚ right from our childhood. When we grow up‚ these sounds occasionally pull us back to our childhood. In a way‚ our happiness‚ other than that achieved from people‚ has its origin in the nature‚ in spring and summer‚ in the hum and noises of insects and birds. The author begins with insects like bees‚ wasps and mosquitoes and analyse their behavior Insects
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Insects Project 1. Orders Lepidoptera- Examples of this order found in Australia would be Abantiades Barcas‚ Barbifrontia and Callionyma sarcodes. The members of this order have 4 wings‚ which are all completely covered in small scales. All the adults in the Lepidoptera family start off as a caterpillar‚ which resembles a worm‚and grow up to be either a moth or a butterfly. The butterflies have very thin antennas and tend to fly during the day‚ while the moths have feathery antennas and are
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Achievers Academy Inc. Km.17 Brgy. Ilang‚ Davao City Submitted to: Sir Neil Evara Tequin Submitted by: Lorydel Avergonzado How to make a cheap Insect Repellant Acknowledgment I would like to acknowledge my parents because w/out their help I can’t finish this project of mine. I want also to acknowledge our handsome teacher
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INTRODUCTION A. Rationale The researchers chose this issue because of the increasing incidents of dengue fever cases in the region & in the country. They believe that this study will greatly contribute to the prevention of insect bites especially in younger children. The researchers are aiming that it will help minimize the cases of dengue which is considered as a year round disease & is fatal. Health care in the Philippines has been a dilemma of many Filipinos especially those families
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Social insects such as ants‚ bees‚ termites‚ and wasps‚ provide us with a powerful metaphor for creating decentralized problem-solving systems composed of simple‚ interacting‚ and often mobile‚ agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social insects lies not in complex individual capabilities but in networks of interactions that exist among individuals and between individuals and their colonies. The daily problems solved by a social insect colony include the following: finding food‚ building
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