Saturday 9 February 2013

Fact Hunters: Geoids, Butterflies & the Second World War

Daniella Mazyar 
Scientists would describe the shape of the earth as a geoid. Quite simply, that is the shape that the oceans would take if they were under the influence of gravity alone.


Chloe Wager
Did you know that a lion’s roar can be heard 8km away? Amazingly the planet Saturn would float in water if you had a big enough bath.

Saffron Lubin
Saffron found out that the Spanish for butterfly is ‘mariposa’. Incredibly a Monarch butterfly will migrate 2,000 miles from Mexico to the Great Lakes.

Click here to find out more about butterflies

David Sangojinmi
David has been looking at the persecution of Jews during the Second World War. Did you know that Jews in Germany were forced to think they were lower and inadequate to everyone else just because they had a different religious belief?

Many laws were made of what Jews could and couldn't do: Jews were required to wear a yellow star, forbidden to use trams, and required to turn in their bicycles. 

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