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==Welcome to MyKlexikon, the Children's Encyclopedia in different languages!==
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==Bienvenue sur MyKlexikon, le lexique pour enfants dans différentes langues!==
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Blue whale

2022-06-06T12:54:53Z

Michael:

[[File:Anim1754 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|thumb|A blue whale from above. You can only see its back in this picture.]]
[[File: Image-Blue Whale and Hector Dolphine Colored.jpg|thumb|A blue whale in comparison to a human and a dolphin.]]
[[File:Bluewhale1_noaa_crop.jpg|thumb|The blow of a blue whale]]

The blue whale is the biggest animal on Earth. Like all other whales, it is a mammal. It can grow to 33 meters in length and can weigh 200 tons. The heart itself already weighs between 600 and 1000 kilograms, as much as a small car. It pumps 100 liters of blood through its body.

Like other whales, the blue whale has to breathe every couple of minutes. When it breathes it releases a giant spurt of water, like a geyser, that's called blow. The blow can tower up to nine meters in the air.

Blue whales live in all seas. They migrate to warmer areas during winter and colder areas during summer. In colder areas, blue whales find a lot of little shrimp and plankton. A different word for the little shrimp is krill. Blue whales eat 3 to 4 tons of them per day and build up large fat reserves. Blue whales need this fat because they don't eat during winter.

Blue whales cannot chew their food, because they don't have teeth. Instead, they have a substance called baleen. Baleen works like a filter that keeps everything edible in the whale's mouth.

When blue whales search for food, they swim very slowly, like a human going on a walk. When they swim longer distances they go as fast as 30 mph. Male blue whales usually travel alone, and females travel in groups with other females and their kids.

Blue whales reach sexual maturity after 5 to 6 years. The blue whale mother carries her babies in her belly for up to 11 months. When the babies are born, they are about 7 meters long and they weigh about 2.5 tons. That's about as heavy as a heavy car. The mother feeds the calf for about 7 months. Then it is about 13 meters long.

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Blue whale

2022-06-06T12:52:45Z

Michael:

[[File:Anim1754 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|thumb|A blue whale from above. You can only see its back in this picture.]]
[[File: Image-Blue Whale and Hector Dolphine Colored.jpg|thumb|A blue whale in comparison to a human and a dolphin.]]
[[File:Bluewhale1_noaa_crop.jpg|thumb|A blue whale...]]

The blue whale is the biggest animal on Earth. Like all other whales, it is a mammal. It can grow to 33 meters in length and can weigh 200 tons. The heart itself already weighs between 600 and 1000 kilograms, as much as a small car. It pumps 100 liters of blood through its body.

Like other whales, the blue whale has to breathe every couple of minutes. When it breathes it releases a giant spurt of water, like a geyser, that's called blow. The blow can tower up to nine meters in the air.

Blue whales live in all seas. They migrate to warmer areas during winter and colder areas during summer. In colder areas, blue whales find a lot of little shrimp and plankton. A different word for the little shrimp is krill. Blue whales eat 3 to 4 tons of them per day and build up large fat reserves. Blue whales need this fat because they don't eat during winter.

Blue whales cannot chew their food, because they don't have teeth. Instead, they have a substance called baleen. Baleen works like a filter that keeps everything edible in the whale's mouth.

When blue whales search for food, they swim very slowly, like a human going on a walk. When they swim longer distances they go as fast as 30 mph. Male blue whales usually travel alone, and females travel in groups with other females and their kids.

Blue whales reach sexual maturity after 5 to 6 years. The blue whale mother carries her babies in her belly for up to 11 months. When the babies are born, they are about 7 meters long and they weigh about 2.5 tons. That's about as heavy as a heavy car. The mother feeds the calf for about 7 months. Then it is about 13 meters long.

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Blue whale

2022-06-06T12:38:28Z

Michael:

[[File:Anim1754 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|thumb|A blue whale from above. You can only see its back in this picture.]]
[[File: Image-Blue Whale and Hector Dolphine Colored.jpg|thumb|A blue whale in comparison to a human and a dolphin.]]

The blue whale is the biggest animal on Earth. Like all other whales, it is a mammal. It can grow to 33 meters in length and can weigh 200 tons. The heart itself already weighs between 600 and 1000 kilograms, as much as a small car. It pumps 100 liters of blood through its body.

Like other whales, the blue whale has to breathe every couple of minutes. When it breathes it releases a giant spurt of water, like a geyser, that's called blow. The blow can tower up to nine meters in the air.

Blue whales live in all seas. They migrate to warmer areas during winter and colder areas during summer. In colder areas, blue whales find a lot of little shrimp and plankton. A different word for the little shrimp is krill. Blue whales eat 3 to 4 tons of them per day and build up large fat reserves. Blue whales need this fat because they don't eat during winter.

Blue whales cannot chew their food, because they don't have teeth. Instead, they have a substance called baleen. Baleen works like a filter that keeps everything edible in the whale's mouth.

When blue whales search for food, they swim very slowly, like a human going on a walk. When they swim longer distances they go as fast as 30 mph. Male blue whales usually travel alone, and females travel in groups with other females and their kids.

Blue whales reach sexual maturity after 5 to 6 years. The blue whale mother carries her babies in her belly for up to 11 months. When the babies are born, they are about 7 meters long and they weigh about 2.5 tons. That's about as heavy as a heavy car. The mother feeds the calf for about 7 months. Then it is about 13 meters long.

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Entwurf:Électricité

2022-05-23T10:12:27Z

Michael:

[[File:Lightning_over_Oradea_Romania_3.jpg|thumb|L'électricité est bien visible dans les éclairs.]]

L'électricité est une force dans la nature. Elle est bien visible dans les éclairs. De nos jours, on fabrique de l'électricité artificielle. Grâce à l'électricité, nous avons de la lumière, nous pouvons écouter la radio et nous pouvons faire fonctionner diverses machines. Quand on parle de l'électricité, on parle également du courant électrique.

L'électricité est très polyvalente: elle chauffe le fer à repasser ou la plaque de cuisson, fait apparaître les images sur la télévision ou fait fonctionner les escaliers roulants. Il existe encore bien d'autres utilisations. Si l'électricité est si appréciée aujourd'hui, c'est aussi parce qu'elle fait fonctionner les moteurs sans bruit et qu'elle ne produit pas de gaz d'échappement. Sans courant électrique, le monde actuel ne fonctionnerait pas.

Mais l'électricité est également dangereuse. L'eau et le métal conduisent particulièrement bien le courant. C'est pourquoi il faut être particulièrement prudent avec l'électricité dans la salle de bains et dans les endroits où il y a beaucoup de métal. Non seulement on peut se brûler avec le courant, mais le cœur peut perdre son rythme. On peut en mourir.

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2022-05-23T10:10:51Z

Michael:

[[File:Lightning_over_Oradea_Romania_3.jpg|thumb|L'électricité est bien visible dans les éclairs.]]

L'électricité est une force dans la nature. Elle est bien visible dans les éclairs. De nos jours, on fabrique de l'électricité artificielle. Grâce à l'électricité, nous avons de la lumière, nous pouvons écouter la radio et nous pouvons faire fonctionner diverses machines. Quand on parle de l'électricité, on parle également du courant électrique.

L'électricité est très polyvalente: elle chauffe le fer à repasser ou la plaque de cuisson, fait apparaître les images sur la télévision ou fait fonctionner les escaliers roulants. Il existe encore bien d'autres applications. Si l'électricité est si appréciée aujourd'hui, c'est aussi parce qu'elle fait fonctionner les moteurs sans bruit et qu'elle ne produit pas de gaz d'échappement. Sans courant électrique, le monde actuel ne fonctionnerait pas.

Mais l'électricité est également dangereuse. L'eau et le métal conduisent particulièrement bien le courant. C'est pourquoi il faut être particulièrement prudent avec l'électricité dans la salle de bains et dans les endroits où il y a beaucoup de métal. Non seulement on peut se brûler avec le courant, mais le cœur peut perdre son rythme. On peut en mourir.

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2022-05-23T10:09:21Z

Michael:

[[File:Lightning_over_Oradea_Romania_3.jpg|thumb|L'électricité est bien visible dans les éclairs.]]

L'électricité est une force dans la nature. Elle est bien visible dans les éclairs. De nos jours, on fabrique de l'électricité artificielle. Grâce à l'électricité, nous avons de la lumière, nous pouvons écouter la radio et nous pouvons faire fonctionner diverses machines. Quand on parle de l'électricité, on parle également du courant électrique.

L'électricité est très polyvalente: elle chauffe le fer à repasser ou la plaque de cuisson, fait apparaître les images sur le téléviseur ou fait fonctionner les escaliers roulants. Il existe encore bien d'autres applications. Si l'électricité est si appréciée aujourd'hui, c'est aussi parce qu'elle fait fonctionner les moteurs sans bruit et qu'elle ne produit pas de gaz d'échappement. Sans courant électrique, le monde actuel ne fonctionnerait pas.

Mais l'électricité est également dangereuse. L'eau et le métal conduisent particulièrement bien le courant. C'est pourquoi il faut être particulièrement prudent avec l'électricité dans la salle de bains et dans les endroits où il y a beaucoup de métal. Non seulement on peut se brûler avec le courant, mais le cœur peut perdre son rythme. On peut en mourir.

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2021-05-04T09:32:19Z

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2020-03-02T23:01:21Z

Michael:

Das sieht ja super aus. Martin
: Mit den vier Tilden (~) kann man hier seinen Namen auch mit Uhrzeit der Bearbeitung hinterlassen. [[User:Michael|Michael]] ([[User talk:Michael|talk]]) 00:01, 3 March 2020 (CET)

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2020-01-31T18:15:51Z

Michael:

[[File:Bild_2e_-_Baustelle,_StVO_1956.svg|thumb|We are working on many new articles for MyKlexikon.org]]

These articles are currently in preparation:

*[[Mickey Mouse]]
*[[Fable]]
*[[New York]]

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Michael:

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Antarctic

2019-12-20T21:33:40Z

Michael:

The Antarctic is the area around the South Pole. The area is made up of the ocean around the land, the Antarctic Ocean. The actual continent is named Antarctic and is almost one and a half times as big as Europe.

Almost the whole continent is covered with ice. That’s how the Antarctic is the biggest desert in the world. While the Antarctic is the southernmost area in the world, the Arctic is the northernmost part of the world. The southern Polar Circle, the area around the south pole, is on the Antarctic continent.

==How do you know something about the Antarctic?==
[[File:Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg|thumb|The Antarctic on a satellite image]]

Already in antiquity and in the middle ages, scientists suspected, that there is a land in the far south of the world. But they didn’t know what it looked like. They thought that if there is land in the north, there should be land in the south to balance the world out.

Only after the sailors had already circumnavigated Africa, America and Australia, did Europeans dare to travel very far to the south. In the year 1820 they saw the cost of the Antarctic. In 1911, the group of Roald Amundsen was the first to reach the South Pole. Around 15 years later, people started to explore the Antarctic with an airplane.

Now there are almost 100 stations where scientists work and live. Half of these stations are only used in the not so cold season. When it’s summer in the Antarctic, it’s winter on the northern part of the world. When it’s summer, its dark during daytime in the Antarctic.

==What does it look like in the Antarctic?==
It’s very cold in the Antarctic. In the middle of the continent people measured the temperature and it was 90 degrees below freezing. On average, the temperature is minus 55 degrees. Along the coast, the average temperature in the winter is minus 18 degrees, and in the summer around 0 degrees. Because it’s so cold in the winter, almost the whole land and part of the ocean is covered with ice. On average, the ice is 2000 meters thick. Only on the coast, there are some areas that is not covered in ice. There are a lot of snowstorms in the middle of the continent.

==Do animals live in the Antarctic?==
There aren’t many animals in the Antarctic. They only have very few plants to live off of. Other than a few seaweeds and moss, one doesn’t know many plant species with blossoms. Above all, the interior of the continent is a desert in which only very small animals can survive.
On the coast and the islands you can often see birds. The best known are the penguins, who can swim but can’t fly. They come ashore to hatch their eggs. There are also seals on the coast. These include the leopard seal and the sea elephant. More life can be found in the sea: many fish, but also whales.

==What is the Antarctic Ocean like?==
The Antarctic Ocean is the sea around the Antarctic land. The border runs where the cold water meets the warmer waters of the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. This limit shifts depending on the season and lies between the 40th and the 60th latitude. The Antarctic ocean has different names: the southern ocean, the Antarctic ocean, or the southern ice sea.

In the winter many things freeze. This ice is called "pack ice". The sea is very deep, 5805 meters. In the sea there is less and less salt, because a lot of ice melts and this fresh water gets into the sea. In addition to the mainland, there are several larger and smaller islands. The Antarctic Ocean does a lot to stop the climate change. It saves a lot of heat that brings the current to the mainland. It also saves a lot of CO2: the plankton come to get the CO2. When the plankton dies they sink to the sea ground. The bacteria turn them in to dirt but the CO2 stays at the bottom of the sea. The most important creatures are the crabs. All together you call them Krill. They are part of the Plankton. Many animals eat Krill like wales. In the Antarctic Ocean there is already pollution even though pretty much no one lives there: in the Ocean there is micro-plastic. The current takes the microplastic to the beaches. That hurts plants and animals a lot. The scientists thought until now that the Antarctic ocean would not be polluted.

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Antarctic

2019-12-20T21:33:13Z

Michael:

[[File:Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg|thumb|The Antarctic on a satellite image]]

The Antarctic is the area around the South Pole. The area is made up of the ocean around the land, the Antarctic Ocean. The actual continent is named Antarctic and is almost one and a half times as big as Europe.

Almost the whole continent is covered with ice. That’s how the Antarctic is the biggest desert in the world. While the Antarctic is the southernmost area in the world, the Arctic is the northernmost part of the world. The southern Polar Circle, the area around the south pole, is on the Antarctic continent.

==How do you know something about the Antarctic?==
Already in antiquity and in the middle ages, scientists suspected, that there is a land in the far south of the world. But they didn’t know what it looked like. They thought that if there is land in the north, there should be land in the south to balance the world out.

Only after the sailors had already circumnavigated Africa, America and Australia, did Europeans dare to travel very far to the south. In the year 1820 they saw the cost of the Antarctic. In 1911, the group of Roald Amundsen was the first to reach the South Pole. Around 15 years later, people started to explore the Antarctic with an airplane.

Now there are almost 100 stations where scientists work and live. Half of these stations are only used in the not so cold season. When it’s summer in the Antarctic, it’s winter on the northern part of the world. When it’s summer, its dark during daytime in the Antarctic.

==What does it look like in the Antarctic?==
It’s very cold in the Antarctic. In the middle of the continent people measured the temperature and it was 90 degrees below freezing. On average, the temperature is minus 55 degrees. Along the coast, the average temperature in the winter is minus 18 degrees, and in the summer around 0 degrees. Because it’s so cold in the winter, almost the whole land and part of the ocean is covered with ice. On average, the ice is 2000 meters thick. Only on the coast, there are some areas that is not covered in ice. There are a lot of snowstorms in the middle of the continent.

==Do animals live in the Antarctic?==
There aren’t many animals in the Antarctic. They only have very few plants to live off of. Other than a few seaweeds and moss, one doesn’t know many plant species with blossoms. Above all, the interior of the continent is a desert in which only very small animals can survive.
On the coast and the islands you can often see birds. The best known are the penguins, who can swim but can’t fly. They come ashore to hatch their eggs. There are also seals on the coast. These include the leopard seal and the sea elephant. More life can be found in the sea: many fish, but also whales.

==What is the Antarctic Ocean like?==
The Antarctic Ocean is the sea around the Antarctic land. The border runs where the cold water meets the warmer waters of the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. This limit shifts depending on the season and lies between the 40th and the 60th latitude. The Antarctic ocean has different names: the southern ocean, the Antarctic ocean, or the southern ice sea.

In the winter many things freeze. This ice is called "pack ice". The sea is very deep, 5805 meters. In the sea there is less and less salt, because a lot of ice melts and this fresh water gets into the sea. In addition to the mainland, there are several larger and smaller islands. The Antarctic Ocean does a lot to stop the climate change. It saves a lot of heat that brings the current to the mainland. It also saves a lot of CO2: the plankton come to get the CO2. When the plankton dies they sink to the sea ground. The bacteria turn them in to dirt but the CO2 stays at the bottom of the sea. The most important creatures are the crabs. All together you call them Krill. They are part of the Plankton. Many animals eat Krill like wales. In the Antarctic Ocean there is already pollution even though pretty much no one lives there: in the Ocean there is micro-plastic. The current takes the microplastic to the beaches. That hurts plants and animals a lot. The scientists thought until now that the Antarctic ocean would not be polluted.

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North America

2019-12-03T15:29:25Z

Michael: This text is based on https://klexikon.zum.de/index.php?title=Benutzer:Martin_Walter/North_America&oldid=103690 and https://klexikon.zum.de/index.php?title=Nordamerika&oldid=81533

[[File:North_America_satellite_globe.jpg|thumb|Map of the North American Continent.]]
[[File:Bear_Digging_and_Denali_(11330360484).jpg|thumb|The highest mountain on the continent of North America: The Denali in Alaska.]]

North America is the northern part of the Americas. The border of North America and South America is between Panama and Columbia. Columbia is a country in South America. In North America, you can find almost every landscape. From the deserts in Mexico and the United States of America to the Arctic in Canada.

There are 23 states on the continent of North America. Most of them are small ones like Panama or the islands in the Caribbean. 450 million people live in North America. Only Africa, Europe and Asia are more populated.

A lot of people think of North America as the USA and sometimes maybe Canada. That is because English is spoken in the USA and Canada. In Mexico and almost everywhere else the people speak Spanish.

In the last ice age, the first human settlers walked across Alaska to North America. They were the ancestors of today’s Native Americans. One of the ancient civilizations in North America are the Mayas that live in Mexico. The first Europeans in North America were the Vikings.

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North america.svg|The countries of Northern America
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Asia

2019-12-03T15:26:14Z

Michael:

[[File:Asien-klein.png|thumb|Map of Asia]]
[[File: Mount Everest as seen from Drukair2 PLW edit.jpg|thumb|The highest mountain on earth: Mount Everest]]

Asia is the biggest continent in the world and has the highest population: 4 billion people, that’s almost two-thirds of the world. China and India already have more than 1 billion inhabitants. The biggest country on Earth, Russia, is mostly in Asia. In the west, Asia borders [[Benutzer:Martin Walter/Europe|Europe]] and in the southwest it borders Africa. If you take the water route going southeast you will get to Australia.

The biggest mountain in the world, Mount Everest is in the Himalayan mountain range. It is 8848 meters (29,029 ft) tall. The Aral Sea was once the third-largest sea until the people pumped too much water out. The Lake Baikal is 1642 meters (5,387 ft) deep. Usually, only oceans are that deep. The Dead Sea is particularly deep under the sea level, even though it is not that deep itself.

The word “Asia” comes from the Assyrian language and means “Sunrise”. The Assyrians were a very large culture in the near east. Other big cultures were the Indus civilization in today’s India and China. Asia doesn’t only have densely populated areas but also deserts like the Gobi Desert. Through it leads a piece of a trade route from Asia to Europe.

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Asia

2019-12-03T15:25:27Z

Michael:

Asia

2019-12-03T15:23:56Z

Michael: This text is based on https://klexikon.zum.de/index.php?title=Benutzer:Martin_Walter/Asia&oldid=103643 and https://klexikon.zum.de/index.php?title=Asien&oldid=102005

Europe

2019-12-03T15:20:50Z

Michael: This text is based on https://klexikon.zum.de/index.php?title=Benutzer:Martin_Walter/Europe&oldid=104457 and https://klexikon.zum.de/index.php?title=Europa&oldid=97539

[[File: Europe_satellite_globe.jpg#filelinks|thumb|Satellite view of Europe]]
[[File:Map of Europe with flags.svg|thumb|This is a map of Europe and all the European flags.]]
[[File:Flag of Europe.svg|thumb|The Flag of the European Union]]

Europe is a continent. Even though it consists of more than 40 countries Europe is the second smallest one. The Atlantic Ocean is situated in the North and West of Europe, in the South you will find the Mediterranean Sea. In the East, Europe is connected to [[Asia]]. The border is a big mountain range called the Ural Mountains.

The European continent has a lot of coastal landscapes. It has a lot of islands, peninsulas, and inland seas. An inland sea, just like the North Sea and Baltic Sea is a part of the ocean that is almost landlocked. In contrast to China, there was never only one empire at a time like the Roman Empire. This may be because of all the islands, peninsulas and inland seas, where it was easier to defend against enemies.

Since the modern age, so since about 1,500 years ago, European nations had many different colonies on other continents. A colony is a piece of land that was bought or conquered by another country. Therefore almost the entire world used to belong to Europe. That’s why people in South America mostly speak Spanish and people in Australia or the United States English. However, between 1920 and 1960, most of the countries lost their colonies.

==How united is the continent?==

The people of Europe speak many different languages. If you count Russia to Europe, the most spoken language is Russian just before German. English is the language most people use to communicate with each other. Many European languages have their roots in the Latin language.

Europe has a lot of states and that won't change quite soon. However many states decided to work closer with each other. They are members of the European Union. The European Union creates many rules that should be valid in every European state. They call it the unification of Europe.

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