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Question 19

In the figure, there are two snakes of the same size slithering on sand. Can you identify which of them would move faster and why?

Answer 1

Snake A will move faster than snake B.

Snakes do not have limbs but have rough scales on the underside of their body that help them in their locomotion. A snake form loops in its body while slithering. Each loop of the snake gives it a forward push by pressing against the ground. The snake with a larger number of loops will move much faster than the snake with lesser number of loops. Thus, snake A will move faster than snake B as we can see more loops are formed by snake A.