Science Hall

The Science Hall is a hands-on introduction to many of the basic concepts underlying later exhibits. Here's just a few of the exhibits there are to see (and play with too!):

• Buoyancy: how marine organisms use this principle to maintain and change depth.
• Viscosity: how this principle is central to the physiology of the circulation of blood in animals and of sap in trees.
• Refraction and Fiber Optics: just for fun...
• Jet Propulsion: think humans invented this? Nature beat us to it by a long, long time; some marine animals use this same principle to get around!
• Mimicry: how some animals, especially invertebrates, practice deception in order to avoid being eaten by predators.
• Reaction time: test how fast your reflexes are!
• Camouflage: how both predators and prey disguise themselves to avoid detection (or from becoming lunch).
• Faulting: just how did those mountains get there, anyway?

Be prepared to have to remind your children (or even your parents) how much more to the museum there still is to see!

This document was prepared by Wayne Hortensius, Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the Royal Tyrrell Museum Cooperating Society. All information © 1995 Royal Tyrrell Museum. All Rights Reserved.
Updated: April 8, 1995

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