Correct The Australian emu holds the land speed record for birds at 31 mph. Jetskis produce more pollution per year than barges, tugboats, and cruise ships combined. Amend, Discuss, Correct Lightning, with a temperature hotter than the sun's surface, only forms in clouds with large quantities of ice. Electric charge is generated during the melting and freezing process. Amend, Discuss, Correct A bolt of lightning travels at speeds of up to one hundred million feet per second, or seventy-two million miles per hour.
Mosquitoes are the common vector for malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue fever.
Mosquitoes live mostly on nectar and rotting plant material. The female bites humans and many other animals including frogs and snakes to provide additional nutrition for her eggs. Amend, Discuss, Correct During freezing conditions spraying fruit can help protect itself from freezing. The heat given off by the heating process protects the fruit. The ice then forms a barrier of protection from the outside air.