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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #6384 Magnets 3
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What  do  birds  and  bees,  worms  and  wolves,  fruit  flies  and  fish  all  have  in  ?  The  answer:  a  magnetic  sense  that  helps  them  navigate.  Now  it  seems  we  might  do  as  well.  Joseph  Kirschvink  at  the  California  Institute  of  Technology  in  the  US  and  colleagues  found  that  altering  the    of  nearby  magnetic  fields  caused  temporary  changes  in  human  brain  activity.
While  sitting  still  in  a  dark  room,  participants  brain  activity  was    using  electroencephalography  (EEG),    electromagnetic  coils  were  used  to  create  magnetic  fields.  The  experiment  mimicked  the  magnetic  field  changes  we  are  subject  to  when  we  move  about  in  the  real  world,  says  Kirschvink.
The  direction  and  intensity  of  Earths  magnetic  field  varies  by  geographical  location.  For  example,  at  the  magnetic  north  pole,  one  of  two  poles  where  the  magnetic  field  is  the  strongest,  the  direction  of  the  field  points  vertically  downwards,  into  the  ground.  In  the  wider  northern  hemisphere,  this  vertical  angle    but  the  magnetic  field  is  always  skewed  downwards.

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