PLANET EARTH - The Incredible Visual Guide Part 8 pps
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The last 80 0 million years have seen a spectacular diversication of
life in all its forms. The single-celled organisms that dominated life
for the ... 17:35:09
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MARITIME
In the temperate regions, weather
systems move east from the oceans
over the land. This means that the
w...
PLANET EARTH - The Incredible Visual Guide Part 7 pps
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WAVES, CURRENTS, AND TIDES
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SURFACE CURRENTS
Oceanic winds tend to blow toward the west in the tropics, ... (0– 18 km)
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There are ten basic types of clouds. Their names are combinat...
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water table 67
water vapor 64, 65, 87
early atmosphere 17, 80
water cycle 19, 66
waves 47, 48, 82 83
weather 65, 86 87
extreme 90–91
weather forecasting 87
weathering 46–47, 60
wetlands 65, 104–105
whales ... Desert 110
Athens, Greece 120
atmosphere 11, 84 85 , 87 , 96
early 17, 19, 80 , 85
planets 10, 11
atmospheric pressure 84 , 86
atolls 102–103
atoms 64
Australia 21,...
PLANET EARTH - The Incredible Visual Guide Part 1 ppt
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Glossary 124
Index
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Acknowledgments
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Oceans and seas 80
Waves, currents,
82
and tides
Atmosphere
84
Weather
86
Clouds
88
Extreme weather
90
Climates
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Iron oxide in the
rocks gives Mars its
rust-red color
Water droplets form
white clouds in the
atmosphere
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PLANET EARTH - The Incredible Visual Guide Part 2 ppt
... 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 ... sank toward
the center of the planet to form its core.
The rest formed the thick, hot mantle and
the relatively thin, cool, brittle crust.
EARLY EARTH
BOMBARDMENT
While...
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EARTHQU
AKE
CITY
The city of San Francisco lies at the northern end of the
San Andreas Fault, and suers regular earth tremors. The last
earthquake struck in 1 989 , destroying part of the ... Africa moving east away from
the rest of the continent. This has allowed the central part of the
valley—on the left of the picture—to sink into the Earth....
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... of the deep mantle
beneath the crust, and therefore 80 percent of the planet.
It is rare on the surface, occurring in places where major
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SAND-BLASTING
In desert zones, where there are few plants to bind the
soil together, the wind picks up sand grains and hurls...
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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 oset. By matching the layers, ... dentist’s 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.
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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 ... GLACIER
In the polar regions, southeastern Alaska and southern New Zealand,
glaciers ow all the way to the coast and out to sea. Here, the oating
snout of the Hubbard Gla...
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In regions that are too
dry for forests, but not
quite dry enough to be
described as deserts, the
natural vegetation is grass.
Other ... intercept all the rain
carried on prevailing winds. In
South America, the Andes strip the
moisture from winds blowing o the
Pacic, and the lands in the “rain shadow”...