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10 Amazing Things the Earth Does All By Itself

The Earth is an amazing and powerful planet. It is forever changing and reshaping itself.

Fascinating, beautiful and sometimes deadly, our planet is forever evolving. Have you ever been to any of these places or seen anything like the pictures below?


Yosemite National Park

Carved out by glaciers, which later receded.


Hydrothermal Vents

Boiling water thousands of feet below the ocean's surface.


Lightning Storms

Formed when clouds discharge electricity.


Himalayan Mountains

Formed when one floating geologic plate slides under another.


Geysers

Superheated water expelled through cracks in the Earth's crust.


Aurora Borealis

Created by the solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field.


Mariana Trench

35,000 foot deep canyon at the bottom of the ocean formed by sea floor spreading.


The Grand Canyon

Erosion of the rock by the Colorado RIver.


Giant Waves

Tsunamis often formed by earthquakes. Can be hundreds of feet high.


Volcanic Eruptions

The result of magma bursting through vents in the Earth's crust.


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19 weeks ago

actually I took Earth Science so I knew all about this *yawn*

39 weeks ago

Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up?

The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts. Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge. Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return str

40 weeks ago

marianas trench is a band too .

44 weeks ago

STFU SSMMAA! And anyone else who spams adds and links on smosh. If you wanna advertise, pay to have it posted on their site. If you just stick it in the comments and expect people to buy your sh*t, a buttload of people will be totally pissed of and you might get your acount suspended or you could be banned altogether. Also lobsters will rape you in your sleep for the rest of your life.

46 weeks ago

I'm generally not a huge science geek, or a geek at anything besides reading and video games, but I love biology and the forming of earth. <3 It's so fascinating.

56 weeks ago

WOW I had no idea Ian and Anthony were such nerds! And its sort of mean talking about tsunamis when JAPAN JUST GOT HIT!

68 weeks ago

big waves are tsunamis

71 weeks ago

These are amazing, so as GIR would say..Hurray for Earth!

71 weeks ago

I pissed off the grand canyon dunno why but I had to piss and didn't see a bathroom

72 weeks ago

@pattar4 the moon controls the tides, but earthquakes cause tsunamis and tidal waves

72 weeks ago

You are smart Ian or Anthony, or whoever posted this! :)

72 weeks ago

You are smart Ian or Anthony, or whoever posted this! :)

72 weeks ago

@pattar4 Well their refering to GIANT waves and I'm pretty sure the moon doesn't make 100 foot waves often x3

75 weeks ago

The Hoodoo's in Alberta are also cool,they were formed along time ago becuse of the rivers and the wind :D

76 weeks ago

I've never seen any of these... :/

77 weeks ago

Actually the tides are created by the moon so earth doesn't make giant waves all by itself

80 weeks ago

That's so beautiful!

83 weeks ago

sunnysunfun you are stupid for saying that, if lightning came from the ground up, we would be electrocuted every time there was a lightning storm..........

83 weeks ago

lightining doesn't come from the ground up, some of it never even touches the ground

87 weeks ago

did you know lightning comes from the ground up? you did not

88 weeks ago

ugh i wish they whould let u type more!

88 weeks ago

that was so kool but im kinda shocked that there was no joke at the end & yes Phantom Bob we get that the "damn nature, you scary!" thing is from family guy when, i think it was peter, was watching B.

92 weeks ago

damn, nature, you scary!! reply if you get the reference

92 weeks ago

i was totally expecting something hilarious at the end there...

93 weeks ago

agree x)

95 weeks ago

they also forgot smosh who agrees leav a comment

95 weeks ago

hey they forgot bruce lee on here i mean he beat chuck norris now thats Amazing

95 weeks ago

you should be able to see the double rainbow in the yosemite national park picture :)

96 weeks ago

:o pretty i like the earth :3

96 weeks ago

Damn straight yosemite park is an amazing thing earth did all by itself.

98 weeks ago

i mean lightning

98 weeks ago

i wonder how many tries it took to get the lighting picture

98 weeks ago

nerd...
to no all that stuff...
well thanks i surched most of the cool ones on google

99 weeks ago

ih..... i was expecting ke$ha....but ok

99 weeks ago

I just got back from the mavericks in california and the waves were only 2ft tall :(

99 weeks ago

AWESOME

100 weeks ago

@ kssinz
lmao epic :D

100 weeks ago

what about sex?

100 weeks ago

Wow!! that is freakin' awsome. and surpisingly educational. :P

100 weeks ago

Nice

102 weeks ago

i'm scrolling down waiting for funny pictures... :P

102 weeks ago

That was uplifting ^_^<3

102 weeks ago

freakin epic :O

103 weeks ago

beatutyful :)

103 weeks ago

gorgeous :)

106 weeks ago

I love these kinds of things. But they should have put whirlpools on the list, too! :)

106 weeks ago

woah this is so cool
i love the lightning pic

106 weeks ago

Agreed Halewken! I love August Burns Red. Fav band, fo sho:)

106 weeks ago

... push each other upward, forming the Himalayas.

106 weeks ago

The Himalayas were not formed by one tectonic plate sliding under another, like Smosh said. Actually, the Indian Plate is crashing into the Eurasian Plate. Since both are continental plates, they

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