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The Nation’s Favorite Fun Family Newspaper Kidsville News! Brainworks Worksheet January Enrichment Activities Grades 3-6 Connections Make a list describing each form of weather Weather The Nation’s Favorite Fun Family Newspaper Kidsville News! Brainworks Worksheet January Enrichment Activities Grades 3-6 Wildville Pandas List all the facts you can find about Giant Pandas. Then write at least 3 opinions about the Giant Panda based on the article. FACTS OPINIONS OPINIONS The Nation’s Favorite Fun Family Newspaper Kidsville News! Brainworks Worksheet January Enrichment Activities Grades 3-6 Answer key Connections Make a list describing each form of weather A tornado is a narrow, rotating column of air that extends from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. It is visible when it forms a funnel made of water droplets, dust and debris that it picks up. Inside the funnel, winds can swirl at 200 miles per hour. They are the most violent of all atmospheric storms and can be deadly. Hurricanes have been in the news recently and cause a lot of damage each year. Air is moving all the time. In the summer and early fall, huge masses of air move over the warm oceans. They get hot, pick up lots of water and start swirling, sinking and rising. That’s when a hurricane is born. Weather A thunderstorm is a rain shower during which you hear thunder. Thunder is created from lightning, so all thunderstorms have lightning. In addition to rain, they can produce damaging winds, floods and tornadoes. Winter storms derive their energy from the clash of two air masses of different temperatures and moisture levels. Winter storms usually form when an air mass of cold, dry, Canadian air moves south and interacts with a warm, moist air mass moving north from the Gulf of Mexico. The point where these two air masses meet is called a front. If cold air advances and pushes away the warm air, it forms a cold front. When warm air advances, it rides up over the denser, cold air mass to form a warm front. If neither air mass advances, it forms a stationary front. www.weatherwizkids.com The Nation’s Favorite Fun Family Newspaper Kidsville News! Brainworks Worksheet January Enrichment Activities Grades 3-6 Answer key Wildville possible answers FACTS They have black patches around the eyes, ears and body. One of the rarest animals in the world, Giant pandas live in a few mountain ranges in China in bamboo forests. Their diet is almost all bamboo — 99 percent. Sometimes they eat other grasses and an occasional rodent. Pandas usually sit upright, like a human, to eat. They use their front paws to hold the bamboo, with the help of a thumb-like bone in their paw. They use their strong teeth and jaws to crush the tough bamboo. They get a lot of the water they need from the bamboo plant, but also go to rivers and streams to drink every day. Even though they look cute, giant pandas are bears and can be dangerous, like any bear. They are about the same size as an American black bear. They are usually two-to-three-feet tall at the shoulder when standing on all four legs and can be four to six-feet long. Males are larger than females, and can weigh up to 250 pounds. The giant panda is an endangered species. Approximately 300 pandas live in zoos and breeding centers, mostly in China. Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are giant pandas that live at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. OPINIONS OPINIONS