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crust 11 Ethiopia 10–11 floods 184 glass 286–7
data 192–3, 326–7 Europa 80 flowers 47, 50–51 glass frog 213
forests 176–7 Europasaurus 111 fluorescence 234 glasswing butterfly 60
gravity 196 Everest, Mount 185, 327 Flyer, Wright 143 glaucoma 159
land area 181 Everett Factory, Seattle 166–7 flying fish 139 glowworm 57, 234
layers 172–3, 191 exercise 271, 284 food 336–7 goats 66–7
magnetic field 79 extreme sports 16, 17, 34–5, food fights 26–7 gold 174–5
meteorites 313 38–41 forests 176–7 goldfish 278–9
the Moon seen from 302–3 extreme survival 228–9 fossils 11, 280 Goliath beetle 121
mountain ranges 178–9 eyes fox, Arctic 64–5 Goliath bird-eating spider
plates 179, 181 animals 278, 282 France 118–19
rotation 193 beta-carotene 267 French Revolution Goliath frog 212
seasons 316–17 biggest 102–3 328–9, 341 Google Street View
size 204–5, 301 color 269 Napoleon 330 36–7, 294
temperature 199, 312 compound 250 Olympic Games 335 governments 340, 341
earthquakes 11, 181, 314–15 irises 258–9 Frank, Anne 332 Graf Zeppelin II 144–5
earthworms, blood 235 movements 272 free climbing 38–9 Grand Prismatic Spring 14–15
eggs 252, 277 sneezing 264 free diving 218, 219 Grand Tsingy 22–3
biggest bird 126–7 unusual 324 free-tailed bats 139 gravity 196–7, 270, 291, 302,
number of 238–9 French Revolution 328–9, 341 303, 305
smallest bird 124 FG frilled shark 72 gray grouper 239
Egypt, ancient 286, 340 fangs 243 frogs 99, 212–13 Great Barrier Reef 65
Eider duck 139 farming 300 frost beard 82 great bustard 123, 124
Eiffel Tower 164–5 fast food 336–7 frost flowers 83 Great Dane 214–15
Einstein, Albert 290–91 Federer, Roger 40–41 fruit 269, 284–5 Great Dividing Range 179
electric eel 235 feeding 109, 114 fumaroles 88–9 Great Pacific Garbage
electric ray 235 feet 273 Furnitureland 42 Patch 181
electricity femur 101 Gaboon viper 243 Great Pyramid 165,
animal 235 festivals 26–31 Gabr, Ahmed 219 170–71, 183
lightning content 188–9 filter feeding 109 Gagarin, Yuri 210 great snipe 139
electromagnetic spectrum fingernails 272 galaxies 309, 312, 313 great white shark 105,
298 fireballs 90 Gandhi, Mahatma 331 117, 226
elements 312 firenadoes 90–91 garbage Greece, ancient 308, 309,
elephant bird 124, 126–7 fish Pacific Ocean 181 334, 340
Elephant Foot Glacier 8–9 biggest sharks 116–17 space 208–9 green woodpecker 70–71
elephant seal 219 bioluminescence 57 garden snail 135 greenhouse effect 77
elephants camouflage 65 gases, space 304 Greenland 8–9, 82
lifespan 132 fastest 140–41 gastropods 236 griffinfly 250–51
Songkran 28–9 memory 278–9 geckos 62–3 grubs 121
Taj Mahal 340 shoals 74–5 General Sherman tree 107 guillemot 127
teeth 104–5 teeth 104, 105 genes 268, 269
trunks 222–3 young 72 germs 264 HI
elevators, longest 164 fishing festival 29 geysers 89 Habrobracon wasp 229
Elvish honey 246 fitness 94, 95 giant barrel sponge 132 hair 262–3
email 163 fjords 17 giant Ghana snail (giant Hamburg, Germany 336–7
Emma Maersk 156 flamingos 24 tiger snail) 236–7 Harmony of the Seas 148, 149
Empire State Building 164–5, flash drives 160 giant huntsman spider 119 hawksbill turtle 238
169, 171 flat-headed frogs 99 giant sequoias 106–7 head lice 262–3
empress cicada 249 fleas 137 giant squid 244–5 health 288–9, 298
emu 126 Fleming, Alexander 288, 289 giant tortoise 133 hearing 270
Enteromorpha prolifera 48–9 flies 269, 282 giant weta 120 heart
equator 193, 300, 301 flight Giganotosaurus 113 human 94–5, 96, 267,
Erebus Ice Tongue 9 bird 128–9, 138–9 glaciers 8–9, 18–19 272, 273
Eris, surface area 202 passenger 157 and fjords 17 whale’s 230–31

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