What on Earth! Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine, published in partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the UK’s fastest-growing children’s magazine, helping curious kids fall in love with reading, knowledge and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from space, animals and the natural world, to history, machines and inventions – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

COMPETITION!

FACTOPIA! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from the tricky birds to… the taste of human earwax!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

Eureka! • The latest astonishing discoveries, inventions and scientific breakthroughs.

How to chat… COMMON MARMOSETS • These South American primates are smaller than cats. They live in troops among the trees in the Brazilian jungle. The calls of these little creatures can be mistaken for that of a bird, so you have to listen closely!

WORD UP! • Your guide to the wonderful world of languages and linguistics. This month… endangered languages!

MAP IT • IMPRESSIVE ISLANDS! An island is a landmass that is smaller than a continent and surrounded by water. Below are the ten largest islands on Earth by area.

MUSIC IN NUMBERS…

WE HAVE… LIFT-OFF! • Discover the extraordinary 2,000-year story of rockets, from the invention of gunpowder to the spacecraft that will one day carry the first astronauts to Mars.

HOW A SPACE ROCKET WORKS • Rockets that travel into space are actually made up of several different rockets that work together, broken up into stages. Let’s take a look at how they do it!

MEGA ROCKETS! • If you were to travel 100 kilometres straight up into the sky, you would reach the Kármán Line, an imaginary boundary separating Earth’s atmosphere from space. It takes a lot of energy to escape the pull of Earth’s gravity and fly this high, a feat first achieved by a rocket in 1944. Since then, we have launched thousands more rockets into space. Here are 12 of the biggest.

ROCKETING INTO THE FUTURE… • The history of rockets is amazing indeed, but it is also far from over… Let’s take a look at two of the rockets that are being built and tested today for future space missions to the Moon and beyond!

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 10-page activity section, you will find quizzes to do, puzzles to solve and fun activities to try. And don’t worry if you get stuck - all the answers are on page 38.

PICTURE QUIZ • Can you work out what you are looking at in each of these six photos?

How to make your own… FLYING ROCKET!

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE • Can you spot all 20 differences between these two summer illustrations?

OPEN WIDE! • Crunch! Snap! Slurp! Join us as we explore some of the wildest, wackiest and most wonderful mouths in the animal kingdom in this extract from Open Wide!: Jaw-dropping Mouths of the Animal World.

YOUR TEETH: A GUIDED TOUR • Some teeth are pointy, some are flat, some are small and some are as big as bananas! Teeth allow animals to bite, fight, tear, chew, nibble, grind… and scare off enemies. Each type of toothed animal has a unique set of gnashers. Here’s the scoop on yours…

CHEW ON THIS! • Many animals have specific types and shapes of teeth to help them to chew their food. Some animals have even evolved to eat without using teeth at all…

Absolutely Everything! • Each month we feature an amazing story from world history taken from the bestselling book by Christopher Lloyd, with illustrations by Andy Forshaw. This month: the Cold War

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