Get a taste of ‘doc’ talk by learning the medical terms for these common body parts. Get started with the quiz now.
Doctors usually use medical terms to refer to body parts. We may know these common parts by more informal names. Sometimes it helps if you know their actual names — even if it is just so that you can sound really smart the next time you talk to a doctor! Besides, you never know when these words may come in handy.
Learn some of these names with this quick quiz.
Sharpen your general knowledge skills with a new round of quiz whizz.
Time to sharpen those general knowledge skills with a new set of quiz whizz questions. This week mostly focuses on people who have had big impacts on the world around them. Do you know the answers?
What does it take to live in the untamed lands of Alaska? See how some species have learnt to thrive in its harsh conditions.
Alaska is the U.S.’s last frontier, with a little over a million square kilometres of wilderness and some of the hardiest animals on this planet. Alaskan seasons are fast and furious. Survival here means making the most of Nature’s gold rush. Here’s a run-down on some hardy animals that live here. As you read, try to solve the picture puzzles by sliding the squares to the right place.
Arctic ground squirrels avoid the harsh weather and lack of food by escaping to underground burrows and slipping into a deep sleep for around eight months. Too small to face winter head-on, they nearly double their body weight before hibernation. They are awake only for around 12 days during the winter months. However, to make sure they don’t get any colder, they use reserves of brown fat, which is also called a heat spot, between their shoulder blades to keep themselves warm. It takes three hours for Arctic ground squirrels to fully warm up for hibernation.
As spring rolls, and the sun penetrates the deepest woods, the black bears emerge from hibernation. Most bears have their winter dens on the ground but black bears dig a hole high up inside a cottonwood tree, five metres above the forest floor. Trees are their refuge for their entire lives. They have strong claws and a natural instinct to climb. However, new cubs that are born inside the tree, are new to climbing. A fall from this height could possibly turn fatal. So a mother bear never leaves their side.
Winter is never far away in the Arctic circle and all it takes is a change in the direction of wind. Life gets worse for sea otters as the mothers try to protect their new babies in the teeth of a sudden freeze. Sea otters have the thickest fur any animal could have, but the winter freeze can be deadly for the little ones, so the mother tries to find different ways to nurse them. The female tries to keep the baby otters warm and dry by constantly blowing air into their fur. The fluffier she can make it, the warmer they will be. With a baby to nurse, she needs to eat twice as much as normal.
In May, just when summer arrives, it brings with it a little visitor, a Rufous hummingbird. They travel 4000 miles all the way from Mexico to feed on Alaskan summer flowers. A Hummingbird weighs only 4 grams and after such a long flight, they exhaust most of their energy resources. For this, they get the help of another species called the red-breasted sapsuckers. These woodpeckers small holes into the bark of trees through which a sweet syrup leaks out. This attracts the hungry and clever hummingbird who use their brush-like tongues to feed on it.
Like cricketers, you need a sharp eye for this activity too. See if you can complete it…
the Indian cricket team has been touring Australia and currently, the Border-Gavaskar tournament is going on.
In cricket, the eye is always on the ball, whether it is the batsman who has to try to knock it as far as possible or the fielders who have to watch where the ball is headed to stop it in time before the opposition tries to score more runs.
In this activity, here are various moments from different cricket tournaments. Try to guess which is the correct position of the ball by clicking on the right one.
The word pairs are on cloud nine! Can you put them together with the right pairs to form a word?
Can you solve this word puzzle? Connect the letter pairs in the ladder on the left with the letter pairs on the clouds, with the middle letters RO, to form six letter words.
For example: ST + RO + NG = Strong
Clown around, spread some cheer, and get people rolling with laughter! Here’s how to become one…
Do you get a kick out of making people laugh? Do you think life would be great if you could make a career out of it? Well, here’s what it takes to be a professional clown. Check out the image slider to find out more.
Who’s up for some lava cake? Put on your chef’s hat to make this chocolatey treat.
Craving something sweet? Well, here’s a treat that no one will be able to resist.
A chocolate molten cake is a dessert that combines both a chocolate cake and a soufflé. It is cake-like on the outside, but gooey in the middle. It is also commonly known as a lava cake.
Learn how to make a simple one at home by following these instructions. Move the slider to see the instructions. Remember to ask an adult for help when using the oven.
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips
2 whole eggs
3 egg yolks
1 1/4 cups powdered
sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
A mountain range is a series of mountains that are connected together generally to form a long line of mountains. Large mountain ranges may be made up of smaller mountain ranges called subranges. The tallest mountain range in the world is the Himalayas and the longest is the Andes.
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause. Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics.
Now try your hand at this memory game matching the location of the mountain range with the fauna.
Square, Triangle, Circle, Rhombus….How many can you find in this grid. Play on.
A Geometric Shape is a figure or an area closed by a boundary, which is created by curves, points, and lines. Different geometric shapes are Triangle, Circle, Square and so on. Try your hand at finding all of them.
Sail along with this crossword on ships and words associated with them.
Have you heard the song “I saw a ship a-sailing”? It’s a funny one that speaks of sailing and there are some references to words associated with the sea.
Here is a crossword that tests your knowledge of a sailor’s life. Check out how many words you know.
