1. Planet Earth
A World Full of
Images

2. Deserts - The Great Victoria Desert in
Australia

3. Deserts - Rub' al Khali or Empty
Quarter, Saudi Arabia

4. Deserts- Petrified dunes near Sesriem,
Namibia

5. Deserts - Dune, Namib Desert,
Namibia

6. Deserts - Aerial photo of Die Lange Wand, or Long Wall, Namib
Desert, Namibia
Deserts - Conception Bay, Sand
Sea, Namib Desert, Namibia

7. Desert s- A dust storm crossing the Red Sea from
Egypt to Saudi Arabia on May 13th, 2005

8. Deserts - An intense Saharan dust storm sent a massive dust
plume northwestward over the Atlantic Ocean on March 2nd,
2003

9. Deserts - A flash flood in the Gobi
Desert, Mongolia, 2004

10. Deserts - Atacama

11. Deserts - Atacama, the world driest
desert

12. Desert - Colorado River Toad or
Sonoran Desert Toad

13. Deserts - Black-Tailed Jackrabbit
(south-western USA)

14. Deserts - Kangaroo Rat (south-western
USA)

15. Deserts - Sidewinder Rattlesnake

16. Deserts - A Camel Thorn Tree (Acacia
Erioloba) in the Namib Desert, Namibia

17. Antarctica, the frozen desert
•The windswept ice
of Victoria Land in
Antarctica stretches
for hundreds of
desolate miles.
•This area receives
less precipitation
than most of the
world's hot deserts.

18. Antarctica, the frozen desert
•Ancient ice on the
edge of a glacier
crumbles under its own
weight in Drake
Passage, Antarctica.
• Some parts of
Antarctica haven't had
precipitation in over
100 years, earning the
continent the
nickname "frozen
desert."

19. Antarctica, the frozen desert
Snow-mantled crags, Queen Maud Land in
central Antarctica.

20. Antarctica, the frozen desert
•Icicles drape the
sides of an iceberg
in the waters
around Antarctica.
•Fifth-largest of the
world's continents,
Antarctica
comprises
5,500,000 square
miles (14,245,000
square kilometers)
of snow-topped
glaciers and ice
sheets with less
than 5 percent ice-
free.

21. Antarctica, the frozen desert
•In the midst of an
Antarctic plain rises
8,963-foot-high (2,732-
meter-high) Mount
Melbourne, an active
volcano cone that may
have erupted as
recently as the 18th or
19th century.
•More than 30 active
and inactive volcanoes
dot the frozen
continent.

22. Antarctica, the frozen desert
•Sheltered by a
titanic iceberg,
emperor penguins
bask in the Antarctic
sun.
•Emperor penguins
survive this harsh
environment, where
wind chills can reach
-75 degrees
Fahrenheit (-60
degrees Celsius), by
huddling together in
large groups to block
wind and conserve
warmth.

23. Antarctica, the frozen desert
•An enormous
iceberg nestles into
an ice shelf in
Antarctica.
•Disintegrating ice
shelves in Antarctica
have caused alarm
among scientists
who warn that ice
loss here could mean
a disastrous rise in
sea levels
worldwide.

24. Grasslands (Prairies)
Grasslands (Prairie)
Ranchers herd
cattle across
the shortgrass
prairie of
Montana on
their way to
winter
pasturelands.

25. Grasslands (Prairies)
•An American bison
stands in a field on
the Tallgrass Prairie
Preserve in
Oklahoma.
• The preserve,
maintained by the
Nature Conservancy,
is the largest
preserved portion of
what was once 140
million acres (362.5
million hectares) of
grassland in the
American Midwest.
There are about 2,500 American bison, which were once
hunted to a few hundred animals, roaming the preserve.

26. Grasslands (Prairies)
•Wisp grass
seedpods sway
in the wind in
South Dakota's
Badlands
National Park.
•Fifty-six
different grass
species are
found in
Badlands.

27. Grasslands
Wyoming prairie lands

28. Grasslands (Prairies)
•A black-tailed prairie
dog perks up outside
his burrow in South
Dakota.
•These playful
rodents live in well-
organized
underground burrows
called towns that can
have populations in
the thousands.

29. Grasslands
•A swarm of insects
hovers over grassland
in Madagascar.
•The island nation has
problems with locusts,
insects that can destroy
crops and grasslands
quickly.

30. Grasslands (savanna)
•An acacia tree
stands tall as the
sun rises over
Serengeti National
Park in Tanzania.
• The savannas of
the Serengeti
stretch over
Tanzania and
Kenya, and support
hundreds of
species of plants
and animals.

31. Tropical Rain Forest
The Congo Basin’s
500 million acres
of tropical forest,
second-largest in
the world after
the Amazon, are
known for an
incredible array of
wildlife including
great apes, forest
elephants, and
some 700 species
of river fish.

32. Tropical Rain Forest
A scarlet
macaw in
Brazil's
Amazon rain
forest. These
birds are best
known for
their loud
cackles, four-
toed feet, and
brilliant
plumage.

33. Tropical Rain Forest
A fig tree in
the
Philippines,
which
produces fruit
on runners
that come
from its trunk
instead of on
its branches.

34. Tropical Rain Forest
•A lizard suns itself
on a leaf in the El
Yunque National
Forest in Puerto
Rico.
•El Yunque is the
only tropical rain
forest in the U.S.
National Forest
system, which
protects the 28,000
acres (11,331
hectares) in the
Luquillo Mountains

35. Tropical Rain Forest
•A monkey from the Malaysian rain
forest.
•Malaysia is still heavily forested, about
60 percent of the nation is tree-covered,
but deforestation has proceeded rapidly
during the nation’s recent economic
development.
• Rain forests give refuge to tremendous
biodiversity and those covering Peninsular
Malaysia’s highlands also give rise to the
rivers which supply 90 percent of the
nation’s freshwater needs.

36. Tropical Rain Forest
•The red-eyed tree
frog is an icon of the
Central American rain
forest.
•When asleep, it's
green color provides
effective camouflage.
•When threatened,
the red of suddenly-
exposed eyes or legs
may startle predators
and enable an escape.

37. Tropical Rain Forest
•Sunny rays penetrate
the canopy of an
Indonesian rain forest
on Nias Island.
•Rain forests are
among the Earth’s
most biologically
diverse habitats.
Their fauna and flora
are precious for their
own sake but can also
aid humans.
Rain forest plants, for example, produce chemicals to
combat insects and disease that have led to the
development of many beneficial drugs.