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MAKING A SPLASH SOUTH AMERICA ANGEL FALLS—Venezuela

3,212 ft (979 m)
AFRICA TUGELA FALLS—South Africa
3,110 ft (948 m)
AUSTRALASIA OLO’UPENA FALLS—Hawaii
2,953 ft (900 m)
EUROPE VINNUFALLET—Norway
2,837 ft (865 m)
NORTH AMERICA JAMES BRUCE FALLS—Canada
2,755 ft (840 m)
ASIA HANNOKI-NO-TAKI—Japan
1,640 ft (500 m)
In 1901 Annie Taylor became the
first person to go over Niagara Falls
The tallest waterfall on each continent (except for Antarctica) in a barrel—she survived!

IF ALL OF EARTH’S
HISTORY TOOK
2,000 MYA 1,000 MYA
PLACE IN A SINGLE
YEAR, HUMANS
WOULDN’T APPEAR
UNTIL 25 MINUTES
BEFORE MIDNIGHT
MODERN HUMANS ON NEW YEAR’S EVE.
FIRST DINOSAURS 200,000
245 mya years ago
DEADLY DELVING
ERUPTIONS
ERUPTIONS
ERUPTIONS DEEP

Diamonds are Earth’s hardest natural
materials, and are used for cutting other
79 ce
1902 Mount Vesuvius, hard substances. Today’s diamond use is:
Mount Pelée, Italy
Martinique 20,000
30,000 70%
INDUSTRY
1815
1985 Mount Tambora,
Nevado del Ruiz, Indonesia
Columbia 92,000 30%
25,000
1883 JEWELRY
Eruptions that Mount Krakatoa,
Indonesia
have killed tens of 36,000 Emeralds, rubies, and sapphires
thousands of people
are all more rare than diamonds.
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