Why Do Crickets Chirp? The cricket’s call‚ a sound familiar to almost everyone across the globe‚ can vary from isolated clicks to repetitive chirps to long trills. While the females are mute‚ most male crickets can be loud musicians‚ producing species-specific songs up to 100 decibels‚ about the same volume as a motorcycle or a power drill. They create their songs by a method that is very different from human vocalization. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/science/31obox.html?_r=0 Cricket Wings
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yelled my alarm notifying me that it was finally time for me to raise out of bed. Even though it was only six o’clock in the morning‚ my mood instantly brightened when I looked at my phone calendar and instinctively remembered that today was my final first volleyball game of the season. Quickly‚ I stumbled out of bed to go brush my teeth and begin getting ready for what would end up being my last day of playing volleyball. After choosing my favorite pair of black spandex paired with my hot pink
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long so I will have to make it shorter. Any opinions are appreciated. enjoy ;) Evaluate a significant experience‚ achievement‚ risk you have taken‚ or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. This year‚ there were elections at my school for "Students Council President" and I had always wanted to participate‚ so I decided to take part of it. I was very excited for I was going to have the chance to improve the school and make a change for the better. I consider myself an ambitious
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THE MOST FAVOURITE LEADER OF TURKISH PEOPLE “MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK” İntroduction: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first President of the Republic of Turkey and the anti-imperialist leader of Turkey until his death in 1938. Mustafa Kemal was born on‚May 19‚1881. His birth place was Salonika. He was given the name Atatürk (Father of All Turks) later. His father’s name was Ali Rıza Efendi. His mother’s name was Zübeyde Hanım. He also had a sister whose name was Makbule (Atadan). When the Ottoman
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Crickets are poikilotherms‚ meaning they are dependent on external sources to control their body temperature. When seasons change and temperatures begin to drop so does their body temperature affecting both activity levels and metabolism (Mellanby 1939). Like so many other animals‚ when temperature drops and it becomes harder to stay warm and and requires more food‚ but if movement is impaired due to the cold that becomes much harder. In a study on the activity of cave crickets‚ they found that
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Write your name here Surname Other names Centre Number Candidate Number Edexcel IGCSE English Language B Paper 1 Wednesday 15 June 2011 – Afternoon Time: 3 hours You must have: Source Booklet (enclosed) Paper Reference 4EB0/01 Total Marks Instructions black ink or • Usein the boxesball-point pen. page with your name‚ at the top of this • Fill number and candidate number. centre Answer all questions in Section A and B and one question in Section C. • Answer the questions
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make the hardest decision‚ yet‚ in my life. I had to choose between dance‚ that I have been doing since I was 3 years old‚ and soccer. Dance and soccer practice were scheduled at the same time on the same day. Soccer is my passion; this is why I made the decision to continue soccer. I enjoy the challenge of practice‚ the running‚ and skill workouts give me confidence. I love the thrill of scoring a goal‚ and there is nothing to compare with the feeling when my team wins. Soccer is team sport
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Newman ’s novel No Shame In My Game‚ she studies the working poor in the inner-city to draw conclusions about how to help them and dispute common stereotypes and the images people commonly view. Newman ’s conclusions along with the way she had conducted her case study will be evaluated for her positive and negative points while searching for any biases she may have portrayed within her novel. Even before I started reading Katherine Newman ’s novel No Shame In My Game I had learned a little about
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Sales of video games have more than quadrupled from 1995-2008‚ while the arrest rate for juvenile murders fell 71.9% and the arrest rate for all juvenile violent crimes declined 49.3% in this same period. The 2008 study Grand Theft Childhood reported that 60% of middle school boys that played at least one Mature-rated game hit or beat up someone‚ compared to 39% of boys that did not play Mature-rated games. California passed a law in 2005 that would have required violent video games to include
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Video Games Video games originated as a new form of relaxation back about 30 years ago‚ with the first ones being just basic ideas and basic goals. But as time has gone on they have grown into a far greater thing spanning to all walks of like. There are hundreds of ways to help alleviate the stress you experience every day‚ so I’m going to focus on one that many of you may not have considered before: video games. If you’re in a stressful situation that you can’t avoid‚ it’s important to take
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