BIOMIMETICS

2. They paid attention to the _____.
4. They thought that the shape of its long _____ must reduce water resistance.
8. Then he took out his microscope and looked more _____ at them.
10. He _____ why the seeds stuck so easily and were difficult to remove.
11. The new nose design _____ in reducing the air resistance that caused the noise as trains passed through tunnels.
13. Nature offers us many _____ that can help improve human lives.
16. It dives into the water at high speed and catches fish but creates very little water _____.
17. One example of a _____ came from a plant.
18. One day a Swiss engineer found many burdock seeds _____ to his dog's fur after they returned from the mountains.

1. Many scientists and _____ have studied nature to create new products that are useful to us.
3. Producing something by _____ things from nature is called "biomimetics."
5. So, they _____ it to the design of the bullet train.
6. Its long-nosed design not only looks _____ but also improves the running performance of the bullet train.
7. He discovered that the seeds curled at the ends and were _____ onto his dog's fur.
9. The noise was caused by air _____. The designers wanted to reduce this noise.
12. Passing through _____ at high speed, the former type of Shinkansen train made a big noise like an explosion.
14. Another example of a clue came from a bird. Have you ever seen the 500-_____ Shinkansen train?
15. His discovery was used in a new product, which we call "magic _____" in Japan.