Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 22
Date: April 22, 2016
Article: Take It From Nature
Author: Brenda Iasevoli
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Questions
1. Who suggested that Japan's bullet train's nose be modeled after the kingfisher?
2. Did modeling the bullet train's nose after the kingfisher increase the boom?
3. Does the train travel slower and at what percentage?
4. Does the train use more or less electricity?
5. What is biomimicry?
6. What does "Bio" mean?
7. What does "mimic" mean?
8. Who co-founded the Biomimicry Institute in 2006?
9. What does the Biomimicry Institute do?
10. What goes extinct each year?
11. Who said, "the more we learn from nature, the more we'll want to protect it"?
12. What did scientist copy to make super-strong tape?
13. What is a cheap and nutritious food service?
14. Who designed the "Jube"?
15. What is the "Jube" modeled after?
16. How does the pitcher plant work?
17. Whose bite is almost painless?
Reference
http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/2012/04/biomimicry-japanese-train.html
http://ben.biomimicry.net/examples/2012/eiji-nakatsu-and-the-shinkansen-bullet-train/
https://biomimicry.org/
http://biomimicry.net/about/our-people/founders/
https://biomimicry.org/team/#.VzYcNyMrLJw
http://web.patthai.org/projects/Innovative_prototype/jube.html
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 22
Date: April 22, 2016
Article: Take It From Nature
Author: Brenda Iasevoli
U-$0.33-B-0.006065-BE-55
Go to Directory
Go to Answer Key
Questions
1. Who suggested that Japan's bullet train's nose be modeled after the kingfisher?
2. Did modeling the bullet train's nose after the kingfisher increase the boom?
3. Does the train travel slower and at what percentage?
4. Does the train use more or less electricity?
5. What is biomimicry?
6. What does "Bio" mean?
7. What does "mimic" mean?
8. Who co-founded the Biomimicry Institute in 2006?
9. What does the Biomimicry Institute do?
10. What goes extinct each year?
11. Who said, "the more we learn from nature, the more we'll want to protect it"?
12. What did scientist copy to make super-strong tape?
13. What is a cheap and nutritious food service?
14. Who designed the "Jube"?
15. What is the "Jube" modeled after?
16. How does the pitcher plant work?
17. Whose bite is almost painless?
Reference
http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/2012/04/biomimicry-japanese-train.html
http://ben.biomimicry.net/examples/2012/eiji-nakatsu-and-the-shinkansen-bullet-train/
https://biomimicry.org/
http://biomimicry.net/about/our-people/founders/
https://biomimicry.org/team/#.VzYcNyMrLJw
http://web.patthai.org/projects/Innovative_prototype/jube.html
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