PLANET EARTH - The Incredible Visual Guide Part 9 pot

... 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 ... all. 4 5 6 US_114_115_WD207.indd 115 9/ 1/ 09 17:41: 29 108_1 09_ WD207.indd 1 09 16/12/08 17:08:32 1 09 European souslik  BRAZILIAN CERRADO The forests of Amazoni...

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... 40 9/ 1/ 09 17:11: 39 046_047_WD207.indd 47 27/11/08 16: 09: 26 47  SAND-BLASTING In desert zones, where there are few plants to bind the soil together, the wind picks up sand grains and hurls them ... polished. US_040_041_WD207.indd 41 9/ 1/ 09 18: 09: 06 038_0 39_ WD207.indd 39 27/11/08 16:02:26 39 10 FELDSPAR Big, colorful feldspar crystals are a conspicuous part of many...

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... tides Atmosphere 84 Weather 86 Clouds 88 Extreme weather 90 Climates 92 4 5 US_004_005_WD207_Prelims.indd 5 9/ 1/ 09 16: 39: 20 006_007_WD207.indd 7 5/1/ 09 10:40:56 Planet Earth 7 US_006_007_WD207.indd 7 9/ 1/ 09 16:31:38 010_011_WD207_SolarSystem.indd ... 14: 39: 09 11 5 SUN The Sun is a spinning ball of hydrogen and helium gas. These gases are the lightest substances...

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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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... 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. On average the valley is 30 miles (50 ... anyone inside. Steel-framed buildings are much stronger, and often remain standing, as seen here in Japan after the Kobe earthquake of 199 5. 29 US_028_0 29_ WD207.indd 29...

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... moorlands. US_060_061_WD207.indd 60 9/ 1/ 09 17:25:41 062_063_WD207.indd 63 16/12/08 16:44:34 Water and weather 63 US_062_063_WD207.indd 63 9/ 1/ 09 17:20:22 058_0 59_ WD207.indd 59 27/11/08 16:05: 59 59 Over millions ... 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 str...

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... wetlands return water vapor to the air in the same way as the oceans 2 6 4 US_066_067_WD207.indd 67 9/ 1/ 09 17:20:31 070_071_WD207.indd 70 12/12/08 09: 59: 17 70 The fast-owing water of upland rivers ... together also make them cling to the atoms of other substances such as salts, pulling them apart so they dissolve. This makes water an ideal medium for the chemical rea...

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... owstones. US_078_0 79_ WD207_Caves.indd 79 9/1/ 09 17:25: 59 086_087_WD207.indd 86 5/12/08 14:31:22 86 1 PREVAILING WINDS Intense heat in the tropics makes air rise near the equator. The air then sinks in the ... 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 farthe...

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... sk ull M e s o z o i c 2 5 0 – 6 5 m i ll i o n y e a r s a g o C e n o z o i c 6 5 – 0 m i l l i o n y e a r s a g o Dragony DNA US_ 096 _ 097 _WD207.indd 97 9/ 1/ 09 17:34:54 094 _ 095 _WD207.indd 95 16/12/08 16:45:47 Life zones 95 US_ 094 _ 095 _WD207.indd 95 9/ 1/ 09 17:34:10 098 _ 099 _WD207.indd 99 16/12/08 16:55:23 99 Hawnch Buttery Siphonophore Starsh Golden ... spid...

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... 42, 57 permafrost 74, 75, 93 , 105 photosynthesis 19, 85, 96 , 98 , 99 , 100, 102 phytoplankton 100 planets 8, 10–11, 16, 64 plankton 76, 81, 99 , 100 plants 25, 46, 97 , 98 desert 110 wetland 104–105 plate ... one. TROPICS The hot regions to the north and south of the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. TROPOSPHERE The lowest layer of th...

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