is is a map of the world.
The land is green and brown, and the oceans are blue.
Big pieces of land are called continents. The United States is on a
continent called North America. North America has a purple line around it on the map.
Africa is another continent. Africa has a red line around it on the map. A continent
is a very big place. Let's take a closer look at Africa.
ere is a map of Africa.
Do you see an island next to the continent of Africa? It is in the bottom right corner of this map,
with a red line around it. This island is called Madagascar, and it is the only place in the world
where giant hissing cockroaches live. Most of Madagascar is warm all year and it gets a lot of rain.
The warm, wet weather is just right for the hissing cockroaches.
iant hissing cockroaches live in the forest. They hide in dead leaves and rotten logs
during the day. At night, they come out to look for food. Hissing cockroaches will eat
almost anything they find lying around, like rotting fruit or dead insects. It's a good
thing that someone eats this stuff, or else we would all be buried in dead plants
and animals!