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Still image from: 7 Continents

Aerial view of farmlands in patchwork green and brown with a small river winding through it. Caption: this land that has nourished them for centuries.

Woman and man, seated and smiling in front of a white columned monument. Caption. Cows. Sheep?

Closeup of hands holding a narrow, red tubular object. Caption: With a warmer climate, do we suspect to see more fire?

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Agriculture and Rural Land Use

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Cities and Urban Land Use

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Confronting Future Challenges

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Industrialization and Economic Development

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Political Boundaries

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Population Distribution and Migration

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Portraying the Earth

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--The Tools of Human Geography

Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Understanding Human Culture

Scuba diver swimming above a wooden ship submerged in shallow water. Caption: In the Baltic and Arctic, wooden ships are preserved.

Underwater image of pink fish swimming in murky water with a plume of debris in the background and an instrument jutting into foreground on left.

Masai boy in red and white shuka looks down at an object held in his fingers. Caption. He tells us that smiling and laughing is for women, not us men.

Tuareg boy smiles broadly and looks slightly off camera. Caption. Another of our Tuareg customs, is wearing blue clothes.

Still image from: All About Africa for Kids

Still image from: All About Australia for Kids

Still image from: All About China for Kids

Still image from: All About Europe

Still image from: All About North America for Kids

Man in beekeeping gear walks away from camera. He holds a can in 1 hand as he passes a row of beehives in a lush, mountainous setting.

Person wearing khaki hat and shirt holding a tool. Low building and vehicle in background. Caption: this is where Thao works -- clearing land mines.

Underwater photography of a rocky cavern looking out towards light in the distance.

Still image from: Ancient Greece

Still image from: Ancient History: Ancient Britain--Stonehenge to Celtic Iron Age Hill Forts

Still image from: Ancient History: Ancient Rome: Reexamined--Military Triumph and the Death of the Roman Republic

Still image from: Ancient History: Ancient Rome: Reexamined--The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Still image from: Ancient History: Ancient Rome: Reexamined--The Rise of the Roman Republic

Still image from: Ancient History: Greek Accomplishments

Still image from: Ancient History: The Incas

Still image from: Ancient History: The Splendor of Imperial Rome

Still image from: Ancient Mesopotamia for Kids

Still image from: Ancient Rome

Penguin chick perched on the feet of an adult penguin. Caption: Adults walk with newborns on their feet and under blubber

A woman in front of an illustrated backdrop with a jaguar. Spanish captions.

A popup book with an illustrated lion. Spanish captions.

A woman against an illustrated background with a sea lion. Spanish captions.

Aerial view of plains with brown dirt and a few trees. Parts of the plains appear to be flooded. Caption with female narrator, "Botswana is home to the Kalahari Desert."

Ancient Egyptian gold pharaoh mask painted with bright colors is lit up against a black background. Caption. "Tutankhamen's mask--."

Looking up from the ground, a large, ancient, brown clay building with the ends of many wooden beams poking out. Caption. "This is the oldest known city in this part of Africa."

Person from the Dogon tribe in Mali, Africa wearing a bright red, feathered top and a long, clay mask with maroon and brown feathers sticking out of the sides. Caption. "They are the masks of the Dogon dancers."

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Ancient yellow-stone building on a hill above a body of water. Caption. "The city of Leptis Magna was a gateway for trade."

Inner courtyard of an ancient, round, 3-story building made of brown clay. There are many windows opening to the courtyard, and some clay pots are on the ground. Caption. "The Berber granary is built from local materials--."

Brightly colored ancient Egyptian wall painting of Queen Nefertiti interacting with the goddess Isis. Caption. "Here the goddess Isis offers Nefertiti the ankh."

3 brown pyramids, 1 large, 1 medium, and 1 small, with brown dirt surrounding them. Caption. "The pyramids remain an enigma."

Ancient, decrepit white stone building covered in moss with the roots of a large tree coming down over 1 of the walls. Caption. "Angkor Wat is a legacy of the mighty King Suryavarman the Second."

Lake in front of some hills and mountains, with lots of clouds above the mountain peaks. Caption. "The kingdom of Bhutan is a magical Himalayan nation."

Palms tree, grass, and other greenery surrounds a large, multi-story building with a gray pitched roof and many windows. The sky is blue with lots of clouds. Caption. "Sabah was known as British North Borneo."

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Closeup of mosaic image of a sixth-century king. Caption. Hagia Sofia was built by the emperor Justinian.

Small statue in a pond in a park with a many modern skyscrapers in the background. Caption. "K, L considers itself a very forward-thinking."

Backs of a few men walking and biking down a busy street next to a yellow rickshaw. The street is surrounded by busy, multistory buildings with many signs. Caption. Male as narrator. "Madurai, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu."

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Ornate, ancient building with columns carved out of orange stone in the desert. Caption. "Petra is in a league of its own."

Closeup of a busy walkway crowded with pedestrians during the day. Caption. "Merchants would have passed through here 2,000 years ago."

Elaborate casket draped in gold and jewels is on display against a red curtain backdrop. Caption. "The casket holding the tooth is a bell-shaped stupa."

Overhead view of the thousands of red clay sculptures of soldiers in China known as The Terracotta Army. Caption. "This formidable army of Terracotta Warriors."

Tan stone domes, pillars, and arches at top of the Taj Mahal against a gray sky background. Caption. "Of Indian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic influences."

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Large stone castle sitting on top of a hill with trees in the foreground and mountains in the background. Caption. "It's a network of Moorish palaces--the Alhambra."

Silhouette of 2 gothic-style cathedral spires against bright pink clouds lit up by a sunset. Caption. "Chartres Cathedral is a great religious treasure."

Silhouette of a large stone statue of a man wearing armor and a helmet on a rearing horse against a cloudy sky backdrop. Caption with male narrator, "St. Petersburg was the vision of one man."

Looking between 2 buildings at the watery streets and ornate buildings of Venice. Caption. "It's the main artery of Venice, the Grand Canal."

Modern chandelier hangs inside a large room made of dark brown bricks and white mortar. There's a statue near an archway, and some items against the opposing wall. Caption. "Everything here is carved out of salt by miners."

Ancient stone building with many stone staircases leading up to it and surrounded by jungle trees. Caption. "Palenque, the great city of the Mayans."

Side view of several free standing pillars of brown stone carved to look like warriors against a blue sky backdrop. Caption. "In 750 A, D, they built strange monuments."

Top-down view of an ancient tomb built of mud bricks in the ground. Inside are wooden beams, open coffins with bones, other skeletons, and various items. Caption. "The spiritual and military leader of the Moche."

Large archaeological site with huge walls of ancient brown clay buildings revealed. Caption. "Chan Chan was 1 of the world's biggest cities."

Trees and foliage in the foreground, with many skyscrapers and other buildings behind, and foggy, snow capped mountains in the background. Caption. "Your trip to Chile will probably start in the capital, Santiago."

Side view of a row of huge statues with large heads against a backdrop of blue skies with white clouds. Caption. "The giant statues, or moai, on Easter Island."

A reptile in the wilderness. Caption: The wildlife here draws people from around the world.

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Aerial view of brown plains with an ancient geoglyph etched into them. Caption. "So vast, in fact, you can only see it from the sky."

Closeup of the orange, red, and purple feathers used to make a religious headdress. Caption. "It's the emblem of an endangered culture."

Coral reef with fish swimming in the vivid blue water above and two snorkelers at the water's surface. Caption: it has a lot of fish, it has less algae,

Body of water with plants floating on the surface near the shore, trees right up to the water's edge in the background. Spanish Captions.

Black frog with yellow stripes that is approximately twice as long as the tip of a pencil (pencil included for size comparison). Caption: this tiny little Eleutherodactylus frog.

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

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Carnival in the Guadeloupe Islands (Part 1)

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Carnival in the Guadeloupe Islands (Part 2)

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: County Clare, Ireland

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Cyprus

Group of women dancing barefoot in an outdoor pavillion, hands on hips and smiling.

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Girona, Catalonia

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Morocco

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Puglia, Italy

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Republic of Georgia

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Romania

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Seville, Spain

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: The French Basque Country

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: The Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Utrera, Spain

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Uzbekistan

Hazy daytime shot of a distant city skyline. Text on photo reads, "Where Europe meets Asia." Caption. Welcome to Turkey, a country that splits 2 continents.

Still image from: Biomes and Ecosystems

Twigs sticking out of the sandy ground. Spanish Caption: que habia sido sembrada y tuvimos perdidas,

An aerial view of a forest. Spanish Caption: que restan de la selva Lacandona,

A school of fish swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: y 120 kilometros del sistema arrecifal

A butterfly lodging on a grass. Spanish Caption: un puntito aqui y otro puntito aca.

Cactus growing on a hill. Spanish Caption: va desde el sur del estado de Sonora

People in full-body orange and black clothing with gear standing on ice in pockets of water. Caption: to trace where the black carbon is coming from.

Still image from: Bodies of Water

Animation of silhouetted ancient warriors charging forward on a battlefield against a vibrant red sky. Caption. The skill of their warriors is well-known to the Romans.

Animation of ancient buildings silhouetted against an amber sky. Caption. At the end of October, Alexander takes Babylon.

Animation of a man wearing a crown and robe standing in a cathedral before a crowded room. Caption. The kingdom of France.

Digital map of the Ottoman Empire and surrounding empires. Caption. The Ottoman Empire is in full expansion.

Animation of a silhouetted man on horseback with bow and spear watching a distant village burn, billows of smoke floating up into the night sky. Caption. The Mongols are feared everywhere.

Animation of pagodas and green trees against a partly cloudy sky during Japan's Edo period. Caption. Will lead to a united Japan and 250 years of civil peace.

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Animation of Viking warriors standing on a seashore with shields, clubs, and axes, looking at a docked Viking ship. Caption. Is the target of a raid by men from the north, the Vikings.

Black and white photo of a crowd of men walking together below a bridge, waving small French flags. Caption. Many of French descent wanted the province of Quebec.

Still image from: Cardinal Directions

Closeup of a cave painting with amber colored antelope-like animals on pale orange stone. Spanish caption. Esas, esas pinturas tienen casi una luz interior.

Closeup of a cave painting with amber colored human shapes on cracked beige stone. Spanish caption. Entre los cinco más importantes del mundo.

Closeup of a cave painting with amber colored human shapes on a taupe-colored stone. Spanish caption. Y protección de este colosal, pero fragil patrimonio.

Still image from: ChangeMakers With Niall McCann: Faith Doherty

Exterior of 2-story buildings in a rural area. Caption. Da Meize. Southwestern China.

Evergreen trees covered in snow. Caption: We'll look at some factors that affect climate.

Still image from: Climate Zones

Still image from: Climates

Field with green foliage in the foreground and fields with round bales of hay in the background. Caption: The climate still impacts agriculture.

Person in shadow against a backdrop of open expanse of ocean and sky. Caption: The new adversity they're having to deal with is climate change.

Coral reef with a variety of marine plant and animal life. Caption: The goal is to restore the coral reef

Illustration from behind of a man shielding his face with his arm. A large, tattooed person with a gaff stands to his side with shadowy figure holding a gaff in the distance. Rain splashes down. Title card reads, "Moby Dick, Herman Melville."

Green foliage in foreground overlooking basin with a lake surrounded by tree covered hills. Caption: The kinds of plants that came back were even more flammable.

Aerial view of mountains with water-filled craters. Caption: I became curious what this was like in the past.

A sea spider with long, extremely thin legs crawling on the ocean floor. Caption: (male narrator) This creature was found 2300 feet deep in the ocean.

Grid of 4 photos showing different types of geography, including a lakeshore and valley surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Caption. How the geography of a region helps to create or inform.

Still image from: Cultures of the World

Cyberchase cartoon. Multi-colored jumbotron screen projects the image of a robot with long blue hair, winking 1 eye at camera. Below this, a man operates the control panel for the jumbotron. Caption. It's. Shutting me. Down.

Ominous gray clouds in the sky. Caption: This creates moisture in the air.

Aerial view of a coastline showing regular waves and an approaching tsunami. Map of Japan and Japanese writing overlaid. Caption: The result was devastation and utter destruction.

People stand on and around a large pile of cut grass with an unmotorized vehicle next to it. Caption: In China, young Mekong is called Lancang.

Depressions in the sea floor with noticeably different liquid in them. Caption: They're very similar to lakes and rivers on land.

Long, spindly legs protrude from an extremely narrow body and other strange creatures. Caption: It's not like life like we're used to on the surface.

Map of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding landmasses with the coastlines highlighted. Underwater images of craggy rocks and deep fissures. Caption: scientists have nicknamed the area the "Ring of Fire."

Glowing lava and steam spew rocks under the water. Caption: how ocean islands and undersea volcanoes are born.

Thousands of North Korean soldiers standing in formation in perfectly straight lines. Caption. Narrator. In the late 1990s, a series of unprecedented floods.

Boy with furrowed brow and white strap over his shoulder stands front and center. 2 boys hold instruments and stand behind him to each side.

In foreground a flat, barren landscape with a large cloud of dust. In the background there are some out-of-focus hills. Caption: The sand forms gigantic dust carpets,

Still image from: Deserts of the World

Sculpture of a dragon made from stone inlaid on a flat surface. Caption: It can create life, but it can also destroy it,

Muted portrait painting of Christopher Columbus against a red and yellow background. Caption. Not surprising for a boy from Genoa.

Dugong outlined against the surface of the water as seen from below. Caption: This is the story of Dugong & Din.

Huge cloud of dust in the distance engulfing thousands of houses in a city. Text on image reads, "Dust storm."

Closeup of a person's hand pointing at a spot on a globe in east Russia.

Digital map of North America with a title overlay that reads, "Weather Map." A red letter L is visible near California, Washington, Mexico, Wyoming, and Mississippi. A blue H is visible near Texas, Missouri, and Tennessee.

Digital map of Earth with an overlay illustration of a flat sphere shape. Text reads, "Robinson Projection."

Digital heat map of the United States with title that reads, "Frequency of Damaging Earthquake Shaking Around the United States." The western U, S, is red, orange and yellow. The eastern U, S, is green, blue, and yellow.

Layers of red sedimentary rock forming the cliffs to the Grand Canyon. Caption: (woman) Question of the day: How was the Grand Canyon formed?

Map of Earth against starry sky with the tectonic plates outlined around the continents. Caption: is covered by ten major tectonic plates,

Trees, water, mountains, desert, and plain with river. Caption: Biomes are like little kingdoms.

Two parallel peaks of rock with a line of magma rising between them. Arrows point to each of the peaks. Divergent boundaries occur on the sea floor. Caption: The magma quickly hardens and forms.

Wide shot of an active volcano at night. Text reads, "Geology, the study of the origin of the Earth, along with its rocks, minerals, landforms, and all of the processes that have affected them over the course of Earth's history."

Digital map of earth with longitudinal lines running all the way across. The time on the clock is labeled on bottom and the time differences are labeled on top. The middle section is labeled at 12:00 and 0 time difference.

Still image from: Earthquakes & Tsunamis

Still image from: East German Berlin Wall Border Troops

Cartoon of a bear wearing a backpack and holding a map with a koala in a desert setting. Spanish captions.

3 girls behind music stands play the clarinet in a living room setting. A man in collared shirt and necktie sits on a piano bench across from them. Caption. Kate as Narrator. We always start the lesson by doing scales.

A geographical representation of Mediterranean sea, which is enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. Caption: M S C recreation by Aaron Micallef, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Angelo Camerlenghi, University of Malta, Medsalt.

Still image from: Eons: The World Before Plate Tectonics

$Computer rendering of how earth might have looked billions of years ago. It's mostly white and light gray with a fracture of blue down the middle along the horizontal axis.$

An illustration depicts the earth of 50 million years ago, with a supercontinent Laurasia. Caption, Paleographic animation by C R Scotese.

A group of Hippos and Giraffes are grazing in a forest.

Korean man dressed in black looking off camera. Caption. Norberg as narrator. In desperation, Dae Sung Kim fled North Korea.

Senior man wearing glasses faces camera, surrounded by models of human skulls and full skeleton in background. Title card below reads, "Milford Wolpoff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor". Caption. A new species, a new line.

Diagram of two plates of the Earth's crust causing an earthquake. The epicenter is at the junction point of the plates below the surface. Caption: Seismic waves - Waves that transmit the energy released by an earthquake.

Aerial view of a string of islands. Light bluish green water surrounds the islands. Caption: The valley's called the Tongue of the Ocean.

A field of burned grass with a tractor in the middle of it. Caption: As you can see, it's devastated the whole district.

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Earthquakes."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Flooding."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Thunderstorms."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Tornadoes."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Tsunami."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Volcanoes."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Wildfires."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. World's Coldest Places."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. World's Hottest Places."

Aerial view of destroyed house and fallen trees. Caption: These can cause catastrophic damage as well.

Closeup of man with harbor and skyscrapers behind him, speaking. Caption. Hong Kong was leased to Britain as a colony.

Piece of crumpled paper. Across the middle, text reads, "Geography as Destiny."

Crisscrossing industrial piping in an otherwise empty landscape. Caption: One of the main causes of air pollution

Body of water between 2 landforms with high cliffs and rocky terrain. Caption. To form a boundary between 2 places.

People walk along the outside of a one-story building. Caption. Describe what is different about an area.

U,S postal truck stops at a traffic light. Across the street is a police line with a fire truck, ambulance, and police car. Caption. The most important is to provide services.

Red dirt hillside partially covered by green foliage falling away into a river with the near bank also covered in green foliage. Caption: the rainforests in tropical climate zones

Manmade dam as seen from below. Caption: to create even more complicated structures.

Stream of water running through soil. There is no plant life holding the soil in place. Caption: we typically identify as "soil erosion."

Wide shot of terraced land sloping up from a valley at the base of a mountain range. Caption. Of finding ways to farm in steep terrain.

A glacier between two mountains covered in snow. Caption: (narrator) The last great Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.

A mountain covered in snow. Caption: (male narrator) They exist on every continent on earth except Australia.

Person holding a shell to their mouth. Caption: Our forefathers traveled the oceans far and wide,

Curving "C" shaped island with sharply elevated sides. Caption: Now the Galapagos is again a scientific frontier

Person in scuba gear with scientific equipment as seen from below. Caption: (man) I found out that the sharks on the reef were in trouble.

Scuba diver swimming over a teeming coral reef. Caption: (man) it's almost like a small laboratory for us.

Scuba diver swimming over a coral reef. Caption: I would go out every day and scuba dive on the reefs,

Coral reef in foreground, plant life, swimming fish and sandy ocean floor in background. Caption: (Sherman) This is what a healthy reef should look like,