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The great white shark, scientific name Carcharodon carcharias, also known as the great...
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Cuttlefish are marine animals of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class...
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A black panther is typically a melanistic color variant of any of several...
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An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which...
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Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere
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Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased , or else because...
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An ice age or, more precisely, glacial age, is a generic geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or...
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The Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America
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The evolutionary history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms have evolved since life on Earth first originated until the present day. Earth formed...
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Photosynthesis is a chemical process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, especially sugars, using the energy from sunlight. Photosynthesis occurs in plants, algae, and many species of bacteria,...
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Earth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known...
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The biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be called the zone of life on Earth, a closed and self-regulating system
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Climatology is the study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time, and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences
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Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect...
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Glaciology Glaciology Glaciology (from Middle French dialect (Franco-Provençal): glace, "ice"; or Latin: glacies, "frost, ice"; and Greek: λόγος, logos, "speech" lit
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This timeline of natural history summarizes significant cosmological, geological and biological events from the formation of the Universe to the beginning of the Stone Age.-Formation of the Universe:
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The inner core of the Earth, its innermost hottest part as detected by seismological studies, is a primarily solid ball about in radius, or about 70% that of the...
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The expression figure of the Earth has various meanings in geodesy according to the way it is used and the precision with which the Earth's size and shape is to...