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January Nature Connection Workbook: Weather Journal: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@4964024/historic I noticed that everyday the sunrise got earlier and the sun set got later. This change is only minute by minute daily but that will slowly lead to the change in our time zone and seasons. This type of journal can be used to show evidence and explain the reason for our daily weather. On Tuesday 2/5/2019 the temperature was abnormally high for the winter season, which caused the snow and ice to melt. However, on Wednesday 2/6/2019 the temperature was back down to the thirties which is freezing temperature and caused everything that melted the day before to re-freeze and become a thick layer of ice. Winter Animals of Maine A moose has one of the thickest hides and most insulating hair coats of any land mammal. While they do completely shed their winter coat every spring, they immediately begin to grow a new hair coat. Their large bodies reduce heat los...

Giant Squid: In 2012 a group of scientists from Japan's National Science Museum along with colleagues from Japanese public broadcaster NHK and the Discovery Channel filmed a giant squid in its natural habitat for the first time. How big is the Giant Squid? Like other squids and octopuses, it has two eyes, a beak, eight arms, two feeding tentacles, and a funnel however, all of it is much larger! The two feeding tentacles are much longer than the other eight tentacles, almost twice the length of the squids body. The feeding tentacles are about 10 meters long and covered with sharp-toothed suckers. The squid uses these to shoot out and snatch their prey. A bird-like, sharp beak sits at the center of the eight tentacle arms. Here the prey is is sliced into bite-sized pieces, then ground and digested. The Giant Squid's eyeball is the largest in the animal kingdom. Measuring at about one foot, 30 centimeters in diameter. The main part of the body is called ...