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    1. Pigeon races involve releasing homing pigeons from hundreds of miles away from their home loft and the first bird to return home wins. 2. Scientists debated whether pigeons used the sun's angle or Earth's magnetism to navigate. 3. A German experiment showed that pigeons with magnets attached, blocking their ability to detect magnetism, could not find their way home, providing evidence they normally use magnetism.

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    1. Pigeon races involve releasing homing pigeons from hundreds of miles away from their home loft and the first bird to return home wins. 2. Scientists debated whether pigeons used the sun's angle or Earth's magnetism to navigate. 3. A German experiment showed that pigeons with magnets attached, blocking their ability to detect magnetism, could not find their way home, providing evidence they normally use magnetism.

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    1. Pigeon races involve releasing homing pigeons from hundreds of miles away from their home loft and the first bird to return home wins. 2. Scientists debated whether pigeons used the sun's angle or Earth's magnetism to navigate. 3. A German experiment showed that pigeons with magnets attached, blocking their ability to detect magnetism, could not find their way home, providing evidence they normally use magnetism.

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    Magnetic pigeons

    Some people keep homing pigeons for sport. Birds


    are taken hundreds of miles away from their home
    in a lorry, and then they are all released together.
    The owner of the first bird to fly back to its own
    loft wins the pigeon race.

    How do all these birds find their way? Some


    scientists think that the birds use the angle of the
    Sun to tell them which way to go. Some people
    think that the birds use the Earths magnetism.

    German scientists tried an experiment to find out


    if pigeons used magnetism or the Sun. They
    hatched three sets of pigeons. Group A grew up
    normally, and could see the Sun all day. The other
    two groups only saw the Sun in the afternoons. The
    birds were taken a long way from home, and
    released on a sunny morning.

    The birds in Group A flew straight home.


    Group B birds, which had never seen the angle of the Sun in the morning, also flew home
    normally.
    Group C birds had small magnets glued to their backs. These magnets were strong enough to
    stop the pigeons detecting the Earths magnetism. The birds in this group could not find their
    way back home.

    1 How does a pigeon race work?


    2 There are two things that pigeons might use to find their way home. What are they?
    3 The German scientists thought that the pigeons in Group B were not using the Sun to find their
    way home.
    a Why did they think this?
    b What could they have been using instead?
    4 How did the Group C pigeons show that pigeons normally use the Earths magnetism to find their
    way?
    5 Write a conclusion from the research carried out.
    True north and magnetic north

    Maps are usually drawn with true north at the top. True
    north is the direction that points towards the North Pole. A
    compass needle does not point in the same direction as north
    on the map. It points to the north magnetic pole. We say
    that the compass points to magnetic north. The angle
    between magnetic north and true north is called the
    magnetic variation.
    The North Pole and the north magnetic
    pole are not in the same place.

    If you are using a map and compass to walk in the countryside,


    you need to adjust the reading on your compass to allow for
    magnetic variation.

    The north
    magnetic pole
    moves around.
    It moves by about
    15 km every year.

    Orienteering is a sport in which runners have to find their way from point to point as fast as
    possible. Orienteers use special maps which are printed with magnetic north at the top.

    1 What is the difference between true north and magnetic north?


    2 Why dont compass needles point to true north?
    3 What does magnetic variation mean?
    4 What would happen if walkers did not adjust their compass readings to account for magnetic
    variation?
    5 a What is special about orienteering maps?
    b Why do you think orienteering maps are printed this way?
    6 Imagine that you have been orienteering for the first time. Write a letter to a friend telling
    them what you had to do.

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