Our Planet: Answers to Questions About Our Wonderful World by Gordon Volke

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Being “on the move” like other electricity. on Earth. A spring that discharges place rather than Reservoir planets forming a part Geyser builds up in a certain Yellow-flowered plants, mountain built up by a Dead Sea sea’s surface. Electrical energy that stratosphere. Good at spectacular light earthquake. which lies just under the Static electricity Jute The cone-shaped above the origin of an and trade. A large block of stone. The “northern lights”— Avalanche 46 Brackish Water cycle Water circulation, via evaporation, precipitation and condensation.

Norwegian flag already flying there. Overcome by • The “Poles” are simply names for the top exhaustion and hunger, and bottom of our planet wilderness. Man’s excessive use of gases and chemicals has Blue whales breathe through blowholes, which can be heard for miles around the Antarctic. weakened the ozone layer (which protects us from the Sun’s heat). Scientists have observed a large “hole” in the atmosphere above Antarctica, in the months of September and October. However, it is simply the very low temperatures in the atmosphere over the area that cause this.

The population tends to live in cities around Uluru. Canberra Melbourne Much of Australia contains vast swathes of barren made up of billions of tiny animals called coral polyps. This beautiful underwater landscape is in G Australia kilometers) off the northern shore of a Australia, Tasmania and Western 1,243 miles (2,000 Brisbane t Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South coral reef in the AUSTRALASIA D i v i d i n g countries: 11) The Great Barrier e Ma n R a WESTERN AUSTRALIA Papua New Guinea and many other • States (Australia only): New South e NORTHERN TERRITORY • Countries: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, (Total number recognized as proper r Cairns AUSTRALASIA—Essential Fact File Pacific islands and island chains.

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