The Chameleon is a strange lizard that lives in most of Africa's forests. It changes color to camouflage itself by blending in with its surroundings. It turns dart when angry and pale when afraid.It has swiveling eyes and a long, sticky tongue for catching insects.
This yellow tube coral looks just like a flower. However, it is really a small animal with a tubular limestone cup into which it can withdraw. It catches small animals with stinging tentacles. Corals are common in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, where their stony skeletons or cups build up into reef and atolls.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France in 1886. It towers over New York Harbor and represents freedom for Americans.
The Golden Gate Bridge spans San Francisco Bay in California. It is one of the world's most impressive suspension bridge.
Milan's splendid cathedral, built of white marble, is one of the largest cathedral in Europe. It was started in 1386 and finished until the 1800s. Milan, Italy's second city, became wealthy during the Middle ages because it controlled trading routes northward across the Alps.
The Mosel River loops backward and forward through fertile land near Germany's border with Luxembourg. Vineyards along its steep banks produce famous Mosel wines, which are exported to countries all over the world.
Stonehenge, in southern England, was probably raise between about 2700 and 1400 B.C. Archaeologist think that the site was used for religious ceremonies. It may have acted as a gigantic calendar, because the stones are line up according to the movement of the sun.
A French nuclear weapon is tested on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific in 1966. The United Kingdom and the United State of America have also carried out nuclear test on South pacific islands.
Uluru, also called Ayers Rock, is a huge single piece of sandstone that lies in
Australia's Northern Territory. Iron in the rock has rusted to give an orange color that glows in the setting sun.
The layers of the Earth's atmosphere from a blanket of air surrounding our planet. The atmosphere is mainly made up of the gases nitrogen and oxygen. The layer nearest the Earth, the troposphere, contains most of these gases. Above it, aircraft fly in the stratosphere, which also contain the ozone layer, a protective barrier against harmful radiation from the sun. High up in the ionosphere, spectacular display of colored light, called auroras, are seen. Beyond about 600 miles (1,000km) from Earth, the atmosphere fade into Space.
This is the Andromeda spiral galaxy, photographed through a telescope on earth. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, would look something like this if seen from space. The Andromeda galaxy contains billions of star, million of which are like the sun-perhaps these stars also have planet orbiting them.
Powerful Atlantic salmon leap up a waterfall as they travel upstream to breed. Atlantic salmon spawn (lay their eggs) in the rivers of northwestern Europe. The young salmon spend a year or two at sea before returning to the same stream where they themselves were hatched.
You’ve been running the same, exact laps; flinging your arms the same, exact manner; breathing heavily in the same, exact rhythm; and seeing the same exact bench for the past 30 minutes and the past five days.
As you pace, you’re formulating hefty excuses every so often to convince yourself that one more day of this routine and you’ll simply want to condemn the word exercise and excitedly relive your couch potato days. You bet even the most devoted of all the fitness buffs lose their motivation and enthusiasm the instant the exercise becomes routinary.
Who cares about it when it’s tad too boring anyway? So spare yourself from this kind of “torturecise” and rekindle your old flame with fitness and health through these alternative fitness activities and tips on how to beat exercise boredom.
1.Listen to music
With music ringing in your ears as you jog or brisk walk, your attention would be diverted from your routine to the music. With music in the background, your mind enters a euphoric state which helps you keep your steady beat thereby making you forget that you still have six more blocks to cover.
2. Go gardening
Plant a flower, grow a muscle, researchers have found that gardening is an effective" “moderate intensity” exercise. This can be done if you now find walking on the treadmill or riding the stationary bike tedious. Gardening is expected to influence whole body mineral density because it includes weight-bearing motions such as pushing a mower, digging holes, pulling weeds carrying soil and other gardening items, and because it uses the whole body.
3.Bye bye treadmill, hello malling!
Bid you all back treadmill goodbye and say hello to the mall. Yes, malling is one way to exercise nowadays and it’s surefire road to lean calves and sexy legs. You don’t necessarily have to spend on this event as you may go window shopping for at least an hour. With a variety of shops and kiosks of interesting knick, you won’t notice time passing by reward yourself with a little something (read: little) as you go home.
4. Gear up
With so many gadgets and gizmos sprouting like mushrooms in the market today, you wouldn’t have a hard time looking for a little something for you dear feet. An example is when Nike teamed up with iPod to create this revolutionary device that measures your pace and distance as you run. This Nike+iPod gizmo is made up of a small accelerometer embedded in your special Nike rubbers hoes that is connected to the Nike+Sportband plugged into an iPod Nano. Not only will you be spared of thinking and calculating about the calories you’ve burned and the miles you’ve earned you sweat your stuff.
5. Do it for a cause
Sign up in that 8 mile jog for the preservation of an endangered rainforest, or in that 5km. run for the benefit of a breast cancer foundation. Wouldn’t it make you feel so good sweating for that cause you believe in?
6. Tag team terrific
Running in tandem is so much better than running alone. For obvious reasons, you have someone to socialize with when doing your early morning jog. Aside from having someone to talk to and someone to perk you up when you’re feeling in a rut with your exercise, a companion can also help you think of other fun activities to keep your energy and enthusiasm levels high.
7. Love what you do
Everything comes easy if you love that you are doing and this also applies to your chosen fitness program. For instance, you may want to take a class or two on the sport you’ve been so inspired with the Olympics. Or you may want to enroll yourself in a soccer clinic just because you dream. The possibilities are endless just as long as you have the drive and you love what you do. In the long run, you wouldn’t even notice that washboard abs slowly replacing your love handles.
8. Challenge yourself
Be your own competitor. Each time you jog a mile, record your stats and keep it for your next jog. Go against yourself; fare better by beating your own record. Not only will this be exciting but this will be equally stimulating at the same time.
It takes more than milk to fortify your frame
WE’VE BEEN HIT OVER THE HEAD with the idea that calcium builds healthy bones. And yes, getting the RDA of 1,000 milligrams of the mineral does help keep your skeleton from collapsing like a cheap beach chair. But there’s more to the story: Scientists are discovering that other vitamins and minerals are also important in keeping us fracture-free, both now and down the road. To reinforce your infrastructure, fill up on foods packed with these nutrients.
