Maine coons are one of the largest cat breeds. They are from the United States, where it is thought they might have come about from local cats breeding with bobcats. They are gentle cats, with long, flowing hair and sometimes tufts on the ends of their ears.
A monsoon is a seasonal heavy rain brought about by wind from the Indian Ocean. The monsoon season typically lasts for part of the year, with the rest of the year being quite dry.
The moon is a round lump of rock, about one third the size of the Earth. The moon looks small because it is so far away. There is no air or life on the moon.
Its radius is 1737.4 km.
The moon is 384,400km from the Earth.
Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It was discovered by mathematical predictions, not with a telescope. Neptune has 13 moons; the largest is called Triton.
Neptune is 4,498,252,900km from the Sun.
Its radius is 24,764km.
Noon, or midday, is the middle of the day, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky and shadows are at their shortest. With modern clocks noon is at exactly 12 o'clock. The opposite of midday is midnight.
Pruning is a way of removing parts of a plant with a pruning saw or secateurs. Pruning can be done to improve the shape of a plant, to encourage new growth or to remove dead or diseased branches.
A prune is a dried plum. Prunes are wrinkly and chewy and are very good for you.
Some kinds of plums are also sold as prunes - these are just plums with an easily removed seed.
A raccoon is a medium sized animal native to North America, although they have been spread to Europe by people. They prefer to live in forests. Raccoons like to sleep during the day and hunt at night. They eat insects, plants and small animals. A baby raccoon is called a kit.
Ruins are what remains of a house or some other building when it has not been looked after for a long time and starts to fall apart.
Ruins of buildings that are very, very old are often considered to be very interesting, and people will come from a long way to look at them.
