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Forces of Nature

The Pororoca Wave

Surfer Serginho Laus rides the Prororoca Wave, a tidal wave on the Amazon River in Brazil.

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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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