Churchill Science

Have a great winter break! See you in January!

-Lisa, who is off to photograph Hawaii’s green sea turtles and hike the volcano

Dive to the deep sea with National Geographic!

We are learning about adaptations in the deep sea. The cookie cutter shark’s adaptation is having a suction mouth and really sharp teeth that are connected to each other. The Cuvier’s beaked whale has two teeth on the bottom of its mouth for fighting. The sperm whale has a “floating head”. There is a chemical in its head that helps it float. The giant squid is really big and it hides lower down in the ocean so you can’t see it.

Did you see the Moon and two very bright objects in the night sky over the past few days? The two dots look like stars, but they are actually planets. Venus and Jupiter are both very close to Earth right now and so you can see them in the night sky along with the Moon.