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Leave a Comment / By QCity Editorial Stuff / January 7, 2021 Last Updated on August 14, 2021 by No person really knows how much he or she remembers! Just close your eyes and try to recall everything you have ever seen. All the people, all the houses, all the streets, all the objects you have ever looked at, … Read more

Leave a Comment / By QCity Editorial Stuff / January 7, 2021 Last Updated on August 14, 2021 by All sounds are caused by a vibrating object, that is. an object that is moving back and forth rapidly. These vibrations cause molecules in the air to and make the molecules next to them move, and soon there is a … Read more

Last Updated on August 8, 2021 by Every living creature breathes in some way. All animal life breathes by taking in oxygen. Man gets his oxygen by taking air into the lungs. It seems a simple thing for us to breathe. We do not even think about it as we do it.   But it involves quite … Read more

Last Updated on August 5, 2021 by Of course, we are all quite accustomed to thunderstorms. These are usually local storms. But there are certain kinds of storms that may cover thousands of square miles. One such type is called a “cyclonic storm” or “cyclone”. In a cyclone, the winds blow towards the center of … Read more

Last Updated on August 9, 2021 by Most of us think that spiders use silk only to spin a web. Actually, no other animal uses silk in as many ways as spiders do. They make it into houses, lifelines, diving bells, cocoons, “airplanes”, lassos, spring traps, and the web we all know. Spiders are not insects but … Read more

Last Updated on August 9, 2021 by Perhaps you have sometimes watched a snail moving slowly across the ground and wondered how it was able to move since no “legs” were showing. The fact is that the whole bottom part of a snail’s body is really a “foot”! This foot is flat and smooth and contains muscles … Read more

Leave a Comment / By QCity Editorial Stuff / December 26, 2020 Last Updated on August 1, 2021 by Rain and other water on the earth’s surface are constantly being carried off. Rivers are the larger streams that accomplish this task. Streams smaller than rivers are brooks. And still smaller streams are rivulets. These flow together and join until … Read more

Leave a Comment / By QCity Editorial Stuff / July 18, 2020 July 28, 2021 Last Updated on July 28, 2021 by Plants have ’factories” to manufacture their food, and these factories are the leaves. Leaves of fruit trees manufacture the food which helps to make fruit. Both peaches and maple sugar, for example, are sweet. So peach and maple … Read more

Last Updated on August 9, 2021 by About 4,000 years ago, a Chinese fisherman who decided that oysters might satisfy his hunger opened a few and was probably the first man to discover pearls! Pearls are made of the same material as the mother-of-pearl lining in the shells of the oyster. The body of the … Read more

Last Updated on August 14, 2021 by Every tooth has the same two parts; a root, or roots, to anchor it in the jawbone, and a crown, the part that can be seen in the mouth. There are four different materials in a tooth. The “enamel” is hard and shiny and covers the crown. The … Read more