Wet Wonders
Covers 71% of the earth
What is WATER?
Scientist look to this plant's arrangement of leaves on its stem and the golden angle for its function to provide the plant with maximum light exposure, cast a minimal shadow on adjacent leaves
What is the SUNFLOWER?
Inspiring solar panels is an example of Brewster's angle in which the exterior tiny ridges and bumps change the direction of the light so that there is no reflection.
What is the MOTH'S EYE?
Has a unique bill that can dive into water with hardly a splash. Produces smaller shock waves and allows water to flow past it smoothly.
What is the KINGFISHER?
Blinks like an eye, created by Bob Kearns
What are INTERMITTENT WIPERS?
What is WATER?
Complex process that converts the energy of the sun into a storable energy in the form of sugars
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
Stickybot inspired by this creature which has adhesive properties as it walks vertical.
What is the GECKO?
What is a MOSQUITO?
Road reflectors, mimicked after felines, are also known as this.
What is CATSEYE?
This creature has tubercles on the leading edge of the fin improves individual passageways for the water to flow between which results in a smoother flow.
What is the HUMPBACK WHALE?
Mimicked after burrs are spike looking seeds of dry fruit, which attach with the long hook that latches on to something like loops in clothing or animal fur.
What is VELCRO?
Is a mollusk and has a small shell on top like a helmet. Bores through timbers of a ship and yet was protected by a hard shell while it tunneled.
What is the TEREDO OR SHIPWORM?
In the 1700s this creature was observed making its nest using chewed wood pulp.
What is the WASP?
What are PLATELETS?
These creatures otherwise known as the poor man's oyster, attach to each other by byssal thread with a sticky adhesive plaque.
What is a MUSSEL?
Found in many of these are a sequence of numbers where each numeral is the sum of the 2 previous ones known as Fibonacci numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.)
What are PLANTS?
There isn't anything to date that rivals the adhesive properties of this creature.
What is the MUSSEL?
What is LIGHT?
This structure was a new feat in civil engineering (pre-industrial revolution), but God designed this long ago in human bones
What is a TRUSS?
This creature has intricately complicated eyes that can distinguish between 100,000 colors, which is 10 times more than humans. It's the only creature that can see circular polarized light.
What is the MANTIS SHRIMP?
Unfortunately, researchers have been unable to replicate the process in changing light energy into chemical energy as seen in plants
What is CHLOROPLASTS?
What is VELCRO?
Bluebirds and blue Jays obtain the color in their feather not from pigments but from these trapped within their barbs. The size of these will determine the set of color.
What are AIR POCKETS?
May observe a formation of a precipitate, color change, heat, light, gas emission, or a combination of these in the forming of a new substance
What is a CHEMICAL REACTION?