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glacier

Glacier ice often glows blue because it is so dense and old that it swallows every color of light except blue.

canyon

The Grand Canyon is so deep it exposes rock nearly two billion years old, almost half the age of the Earth.

waterfall

Venezuela's Angel Falls is so tall, about 3,212 feet, that much of the water turns to mist before reaching the ground.

volcano

When a volcano erupts, molten rock called magma below the ground becomes lava the moment it reaches the open air.

prairie

North America's vast prairies once fed enormous herds of bison that roamed the open grasslands in the millions before settlement.

plateau

A plateau is a wide stretch of high, flat land, and the Tibetan Plateau is often called the roof of the world.

savanna

African savannas mix open grassland with scattered trees, and their dry and wet seasons drive the great migrations of grazing herds.

wetland

Wetlands act like giant sponges, soaking up floodwater and filtering pollution before it can drain into rivers and the sea.

mountain

Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth, yet its rock still holds fossils of sea creatures from an ancient ocean.

forest

Trees in a forest swap food and warnings through underground fungal threads, a hidden network nicknamed the wood wide web.

desert

Deserts are defined by dryness, not heat, so Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth despite all its ice.

jungle

Rainforests cover about six percent of land yet shelter more than half of all the plant and animal species on Earth.

valley

California's Death Valley sits below sea level and logged 134 degrees Fahrenheit in 1913, still the official world heat record.

meadow

A single healthy meadow can feed hundreds of bee, butterfly, and beetle species that vanish from tidy mown lawns.

island

New islands are still being born: undersea volcanoes near Tonga and Iceland have pushed fresh land above the waves in recent years.

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