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How animals adapt Can you identify these animals? Fill in the blocks with the correct answers. 1 This member of the dog family can change its colour. its fur is white or grev-blue during the winter and grey-brown or grey during the summer. helping it camouflage. Its long. bushy tail, also called a sweep.helps it to maintain its balance and keeps its feet and nose warm when it curls up to sleep. Found in the rivers of eastern, central, and parts of southern Africa this animal is of the most ferocious animals regarded as one in the asacusomnnbbotliouinsoretndnu.trs.iTwzIheteirsasetas,cnerwdcerthpeeistrciohoatnnea,ccothtsisloyawagsseauavibnenssrat,tatiungsrceanermlefissrtuoh. nmesrCibtrsleoesonkdiannn, odpropsprwuoeltaeacrtlt.ysItiktanfcortowsmans oa 3 These trogs range from less than one inch to around two and a half inches in bodv length. They all vary in their colours and patterns. The beautiful colourings on their bodies are warnings to predators that thev are poisonous. In certain cases, their patterns also helps them camoutlage. nd This lizard has a skin flap which looks like a frill encircling its neck, which it can raise suddenly when threatened to surprise its enemy. This can make its head look several times its normal size. itbits The Burmese python is among the largest snakes in the world. It belongs to the tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia and grows up to more than 20 feet in length. Their hinged jaws can separate, which allows them to swallow larger prey, almost four to five times larger than their heads.

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Famous people Read the clues abont these pronminent people andtheir famous uwords to identifu them Fill in the bianks using the hely bor given on the next page. She was the daughter of the wealthy and aristocratic nationalist leader Motilal Nehru and sister of the first prime min ister \" of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Her famous words in war. were: The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed 2 He was an American printer, publisher, author, inventor, scientist, and diplomat. He made important contributions wisd om and writing to sci ence and is remembered for his famous words were: W ell done is b etter than style. His well said. liBRnaeous1mrt7e9kaa8nnt,eotiwfwcrronimmttaeos1nva8ew4pm3ioteuhentnStotiaiflnmnhEuaistneulgdrleTeias,ahtyhhlel.oitHsreeCrirsavotLeuleydrreriia.dcsHaglGeiB,srhaeflaealamltpdBose,rduipstlauawibunlo'nisrscdphhsoetdehte were: The child is the father of man.'. 4. coAwrfooppsnoosetethtth,reeynNosGevoaiebtaleminlsjetaP,rlrepi.illzyaHeybiiwsynfrsLaitgmiathneotdr,uaipsntaugwirneaotnrienddr,s1sa9wtna1edr3rienfmo:gr'uYahstoiistcuhicceaoanwlln-ea'hcttteeiron His theories of relativity led to new research regarding the theories of time, space, matter, energy, and gravity. His famous words were: 'Imagination is more important than knowledge Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.'

The 1oth president ot the l nitei States he ranks amng the greatest all Anmerican statesmen. Daring the Cinil War he maunt.nad the umtv ot the country ant he also plaved an important rvle in brnging treeiom r thhe Atrian Aerican slaves His famous nrds Were ou can tool all the pevple some ot the time. and soe ot the p l e all the time but vou cannot tool all the people all the tie. One ot the most tamous Jewish vitims ot Nazi perserution. this 15-vear-old diarist l1. l nned one ot the world's nmost powertul accounts ot Jewish lite durin; World War al happy; our lives are Her famous words were: TWe al l live with the objartive ot being ditterent and vet the same. Hwtthhieeal ltlNenmdoovbttehbfloeeuPcjreiuvadliicglteterliePdgrchbihztysieltdmihnreoe1nvc9eow6ml4oi.leulHnrotionsifenttadhtmhaeveioruUlsisknviweint eionbdrudaStstnbawaytteeistrohenae:nw\"cdl ohhwneatraveesenttadhwoedfvarterhadneemidr character. 9. AdwbeeenarsfeAe-:ebmn'lTienohrdriecepabvneeersenstdoatunnocdutaoctmoghroreasaddtn-ubdtaehataeeuuvttfhirmfoouumrl,sttschhobinelelgebtsgeeelict.nawHmthieetehrtwfhtaheomerflihodruestacs arwtnnoordt s 10. An Irish dramatist and li terary critic, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. His fa mous words were: Success does not consist in never making mistake s but in never making the same one a second time. *** Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Anne Frank William Wordsworth Abraham Lincoln Helen Keller Martin Luther King, jr AlbertEinstein Rabindranath Tagore George Bernard Shaw Benjamin Franklin

Castles and palaces The Forbidden Schloss Schönbrunn City seved as the palace for served as the sumner palare of the t h the Ming and Hing emperos and rulers of Austria the Hatsburgs The was built in tBeijing iy the Ming enmperor hu D betwevn 1406 and 1420. The palace 1,440 r0om palare wa, originally buit by Jhar was given its peculiar name beause it was off Bernhard icher von Erlach in 1711 to compete with the Palace of Versailles, Ftance, It imits to common people and allowed limited acces even to the royal family; only the modified 26 years later by his sor Joeph Eratuel emperor w.as allowed to roam the palace at The palace houses, perhaps, the oidest zo in his will. Most of the buildings Europe, the Schonbrunin Tiergarten, which n this paltce complex face southh was established in 1752 to honour the sun. The Buckingham The Nymphenburg Palace takes Its name from the house of the same name built Palace is located on the outskints for John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham. of Munich, Germany. It was the HIs residence was bought by King George Surmmer residence of the Wittelsbachs, IIl for his wife Charlotte in 1762, and later it the former ruling farmily of Bavaria. The was converted into a palace. Queen Victoria construction of the palace began in 1664 was the frst member of the royal family to The gardens of the palace were designed by formally live in the Buckingham palace Carbonet, a pupil of the French designer André Le Nótre, who had also designed the gardens in the Palace of Versailes

The Palace of Located on a site Versailles, located overiocking The Sound about 16 krm south-west stretch of water between Denmark and of Paris, is one of the miost Sweden-1s the Castle Kronborg The castie has an important and interesting history as both a extravagant buildings of royal castie and a military fortress Though s history the world. It was the official can be traced back to the Middie Ages, it was King Frederik II who rebuit it in impressive Renaissance style residence of the kings of in 1574. The castle was once again reconstructedin the France from 1682 to 1789. It was restored after 17th century after it waas the French Revolution took a toll on the palace destroyed in a fire. The and later made into a museun. It is particularly Kronborg Caste is known as Elsinore from Shakespeare's known for its architecture and gardens. Hamiet Have you visited any fort or castie? Did the caste have any features which could have made t inaccessible to invaders Quick quiz ldentify where thesefamouscastles and palaces are located using the helpboxgiven belou. astie This palace has mnore than 70 rooms 2 This spectacular castle was built for 3. This is the largest Louis IL Located atopa rock ledge afd nune churches from the 14th, 16th inhabited castie in the on the Alps, overlooking a gorge. it and 17th centuries Parts of the palace world. It stands on a citf looks like a fairytalecastle above the River Thames are used today for ofticial ceremonies Bavaria, emany Windsor.England Moscow, Russia