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Forces of Nature

Greening of the Serengeti

After a long, dry summer, the parched, brown plains of the Serengeti into a lush green blanket of grass with the onset of the rainy season. The green grass is colored by the pigment chlorophyll which harnesses the energy from the sunlight. In a process called photosynthesis it transforms carbon dioxide and water into sugars which can feed cows, humans and the wildlife of the Serengeti.

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Learn how we experience the consequences of natural forces that keep Earth on the move.
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Understand how Earth’s colors are created and what they mean.
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Learn how Earth’s chemical elements transformed barren rock into a living world.
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Knowing why shapes exist in nature helps us to understand forces that bind the universe.
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