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 How Do Electric Eels Produce Electricity?

How Do Electric Eels Produce Electricity?
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     challenging words:    fearsome, unnoticed, shocks, unleash, navigation, encounter, communication, beady, direct, radar, slink, originally, extreme, power, weak, brief
     content words:    South America

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How Do Electric Eels Produce Electricity?
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     They're toothless and can barely see where they are going in the murky waters they call home. So why are these creatures the fearsome villains in so many scary sea tales?
 
2     Because they are electric eels - one of the few species on earth that can produce an electric shock strong enough to stun its prey and scare off predators. And they're strong enough to give an unlucky human a very painful shock.
 
3     How do they do it?
 
4     Like all energy on earth, the electricity produced by electric eels comes originally from the sun. After passing through several steps of the food chain, this energy is taken in by electric eels in the food they eat.

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