Nature - Fact or Fiction?
By Alan Devoe
Can you distinguish nature facts from supertitious beleifs?
1. A wild animal is more likely to attack you if you are afraid of it.
True
False
2. Only the female mosquito ever bites you.
3. Moss grows thickest on the north side of trees.
4. A chameleon takes on the color of the object on which it rests.
5. A person who cannot hear at all is deaf as an adder.
6. Summer is warmer than winter because the earth is then nearer to the sun.
7. Beavers use their tails as trowels when building their dams.
8. Venomous snakes are immune to their own poison.
9. Horned toads squirt blood out of their eyes.
10. If you cut an earthworm in two, each half will become a new worm.
11. A shark must turn belly-up in order to bite.
12. Elephants live to be several hundred years old.
13. Squirrels have an accurate memory for the places where they have buried nuts.