Brooke the waterwheel
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1. The document describes an experiment to build a waterwheel that uses the flow of water to generate energy and lift a small piece of clay. 2. The student constructed the waterwheel out of plastic bottle pieces, corks, string, and clay. When water flowed over the wheel, it began to spin and lift the clay using the string. 3. The experiment was successful in demonstrating how flowing water can generate energy, though one of the plastic blades fell off. The student learned waterwheels can be used to produce electricity from dams in an environmentally friendly way.
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This document outlines different difficulty levels for a Wordle show, including easy, medium, hard, and very hard levels. Easy and medium levels provide the answer or a hint, while hard provides a hint describing the answer as an insect. The very hard level provides no hint for the palindrome answer.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers and riddles organized from easy to very hard difficulty. The easy section includes word puzzles and logic problems. The hard section introduces more complex logic puzzles requiring multiple steps to solve. The very hard problems provide hints but still challenge the reader's abilities to think creatively and solve puzzles through unconventional means.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers and riddles organized from easy to very hard difficulty. The easy section includes word puzzles and logic problems. The hard section introduces more complex logic puzzles requiring multiple steps to solve. The very hard section features riddles with obscure clues that may require hints to deduce the answers.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers and puzzles ranging from easy to very hard difficulty levels. The easy section includes word puzzles involving describing situations and identifying foods eaten by dogs. The hard section poses logic puzzles about cutting a cheese into pieces and figuring out which ball will exit a maze. The very hard section presents rearranging name puzzles to identify US states and a complex day of the week riddle. It also includes a family relationships puzzle that is hinted to have a total of 7 siblings.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers and puzzles ranging from easy to very hard difficulty levels. The easy section includes word games and logic puzzles involving animals, food, and anagrams. The hard section poses more complex logic problems involving geometry, wordplay, and maze navigation. The very hard section features puzzles requiring rearrangement of names and decoding of riddles involving days and family relationships.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers and puzzles ranging from easy to very hard difficulty levels. The easy section includes word puzzles involving describing situations and identifying foods eaten by dogs. The hard section poses logic puzzles about cutting a cheese into pieces and figuring out which ball will exit a maze. The very hard section presents rearranging name puzzles to identify US states and a complex day of the week riddle. It also includes a family relationships puzzle that is hinted to have a total of 7 siblings.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers and puzzles ranging from easy to very hard difficulty levels. The easy section includes word puzzles involving describing situations and identifying foods eaten by dogs. The hard section poses logic puzzles about cutting a cheese into pieces and reversing letters in words. The very hard section presents puzzles involving rearranging names to spell states and determining days based on convoluted date descriptions.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers and puzzles ranging from easy to very hard difficulty levels. The easy section includes word puzzles involving describing situations and identifying foods eaten by dogs. The hard section poses logic puzzles about cutting a cheese into pieces and reversing letters in words. The very hard section presents puzzles involving rearranging names to spell states and determining days based on convoluted date descriptions.
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The document contains a collection of brainteasers ranging from easy to very hard difficulty levels. Some teasers provide word puzzles or logic problems, while others describe visual puzzles or riddles involving days of the week. The answers or solutions are included for each teaser.
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This wordle game document provides clues to guess the subject of different wordles based on nature, Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians in 3 short questions and answers.
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This wordle game document provides clues to guess the subject of different wordles based on nature, Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians in 3 short questions and answers.
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This wordle game document provides clues to guess the subject of different wordles based on nature, Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians in 3 short questions and answers.
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