Pet power.Every night, Peter Ash's pet hamster hamster, Old World rodent, related to the voles, lemmings, and New World mice. There are many hamster species, classified in several genera. All are solitary, burrowing, nocturnal animals, with chunky bodies, short tails, soft, thick fur, and large external cheek scurries on its exercise wheel for hours. So the inventive 16-year-old thought: Why not use the energy from this nightly run to charge his cell phone battery. Peter linked his pet's whirling whirl v. whirled, whirl·ing, whirls v.intr. 1. To revolve rapidly about a center or an axis. See Synonyms at turn. 2. wheel to a generator. "Generators convert mechanical energy--the energy an object has due to its motion--into electrical energy," explains engineer Mark Vogel. That electrical energy flows from the generator to a charger CHARGER, Scotch law. He in whose favor a decree suspended is pronounced; vet a decree may be suspended before a charge is given on it. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3, 7. , which plugs into Peter's phone. Each night, the four-footed power source takes a four-hour walk, supplying lots of talking time Talking Time (released commercially September 2006 in Australia, Canada, USA & NZ), is a DVD program in which Australian television personality and now former host of the Australian Nine Network interactive quiz show Quizmania, Amy Parks interacts with a collection of puppets, the program . NUMBER OF KIDS WITH CELL PHONES A recent survey found that nearly half of all Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 own a cell phone. How does your class compare? Poll the students, and make a pie graph of your results to find out. DON'T OWN A CELL PHONE 55% OWN A CELL PHONE 45% Note: Table made from pie chart. |
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