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The Living Sands

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Elephant reaching trunk into the foliage of a tree. Caption: And even here, life endures.

Focuses on animal life in four extremely inhospitable deserts: the Namib's adaptive elephant, a dromedary roundup in Australia's outback, fish in thermal lakes in Mexico's Chihuahua desert, and the Sahara's Ennedi crocodiles. Survival is an eternal challenge to any life in these places.

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Runtime: 52 minutes 54 seconds

Topic: Science
Subtopic: Earth Sciences, Geology
Grade/Interest Level: 9 - 12
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Release Year: 2000
Producer/Distributor: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc
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Map of Alaska with Anchorage displayed. 1964 Epicenter indicated on coastline in bay adjacent to Anchorage. Caption: The epicenter was in Prince William Sound

Dry, brown grass and brush with crumbling rocks throughout and a flat-topped rocky hill in the background. Caption: punctuated by hills, badlands, and bluffs --

Person walking through low hills of green and brown shrubs and rock strewn in red soil. Caption: through the Texas Panhandle.

Illustration of a man sitting at a desk, looking off into the distance at nothing. Caption: Maybe the continents drifted apart.

A subduction zone. In a subduction zone oceanic plate dives beneath the continental plate. Contact at time equal zero. G P S at time equals zero. Caption: Megathrust earthquakes most commonly occur

Rolling two-peaked hill and valley covered in trees. Caption: Inexplicably, Capulin Volcano is tree covered,

A tree lined river with steep banks on one side. Caption: you have groundwater that flows into the river

Cave with stalactites and stalagmites in light brown rock. Caption: and great cathedrals of rock

Rolling brown foothills ending in San Francisco Bay with the Golden Gate bridge in the foreground. Caption: This movement is called an earthquake.

Still image from: Core Geology