PLANET EARTH - The Incredible Visual Guide Part 3 ppt

... to 250 macaques use the hot pools US_ 034 _ 035 _WD207.indd 35 11/2/09 16:14:06 32 _33 _WD207.indd 33 21/11/08 15:28:24 33 3 KRAKATAU One of hundreds of volcanoes that form the islands of Indonesia, ... after the Kobe earthquake of 1995. 29 US_028_029_WD207.indd 29 9/1/09 17:06:00 036 _ 037 _WD207.indd 37 23/ 12/08 15:08 :32 Rocks and minerals 37 US_ 036 _ 037 _WD207.indd...

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... ago, the atmosphere was thicker and it kept the planet warm enough for rivers of water to ow on the surface. Nearly all the water on Mars has now turned to ice. 6 EARTH The largest of the ... guide 004_005_Prelims.indd 4 5/1/09 11 :38 : 13 Planet Earth 6 Our galaxy 8 The solar system 10 Asteroids, meteorites, 12 and comets The Moon 14 Early Earth 16 Eart...

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... and rock in the region of the galaxy where the Sun was born. As the pieces of dust and rock orbited the star, they were pulled together by their own gravity, and the energy of these collisions ... neighbor. THE MOON  UNMANNED PROBES The rst spacecraft sent to the Moon were robots, which analyzed the surface conditions, gathered images, and beamed the data back to...

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... 6 GLACIAL REBOUND The colossal weight of the ice-age ice sheets distorted Earth s crust downward. In the 12,000 years since they melted, the crust has been steadily rising at the rate of up ... the Sun warms their leaves 1 3 Nearly all the water that ows back to the sea is carried by rivers or coastal glaciers Deep-owing groundwater seeps directly into the o...

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... movements. Most of the surface was eroded away, leaving these towering “monuments.” US_046_047_WD207.indd 47 9/1/09 17:14 :33 042_0 43_ WD207.indd 43 27/11/08 16:01:50 43 7 PUMICE The lava erupted ... 17:15:29 038 _ 039 _WD207.indd 38 27/11/08 16:02:12 38 Minerals are the natural solid substances that form rocks. A few consist of just one element, in which all the atoms ar...

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... frequently they snap due to tension pulling the rocks apart. One side of the fault drops relative to the other—or is pushed up by pressure—and the rock strata become oset. By matching the layers, ... drills. When the bones are exposed, they are preserved, often with a varnish, to stop them falling apart. Scientists can then work out how they once t together. 2 1 Leaf im pr...

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... around the planet. The outer atmospheric layers are invisible, because the air in them is so thin. Clouds rise to the top of the troposphere, but no farther, so all the water vapor in the atmosphere—and ... tropics, and toward the east in the midlatitudes farther north and south. They drag the surface waters of the oceans with them, creating huge clockwise current...

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... 17 :35 :09 092_0 93_ WD207.indd 93 5/12/08 14 :32 :48 93 6 MARITIME In the temperate regions, weather systems move east from the oceans over the land. This means that the western fringes of the continents— places ... make them release their seeds. 6 US_092_0 93_ WD207.indd 93 9/1/09 17 :33 :35 094_095_WD207.indd 94 16/12/08 16:45 :31 GREEN GLOW Hardy trees glow with the...

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... DESERT Lying at the heart of southern Africa, the Kalahari is a mixture of scorpion-infested desert with long sand dunes, and tree-dotted dry grasslands. The region contains the Okavango Delta, the remains ... intercept all the rain carried on prevailing winds. In South America, the Andes strip the moisture from winds blowing o the Pacic, and the lands in the “...

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... 67 volcanoes 6–7, 10, 16, 20, 21, 30 31 , 58 eruptions 17, 32 33 , 80 explosions 31 , 33 W Z wadis 46 waste 122 water 11, 64–65, 96 groundwater 67, 68, 75, 78 superheated 34 , 35 water cycle 66–67 waterfalls ... 50, 52– 53, 54, 97 frost-shattering 46, 47 fuels 116, 122 fungi 97, 98 G gabbro 43, 57 galaxy 8–9 garbage 122 gas 116 Gaspra 12 gemstones 38 39 , 43, 57, 117 geothermal ene...

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