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This endangered mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) was photographed by National Geographic Photographer Joel Sartore on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, in his ambitious project to document every species in captivity—inspiring people not just to care, but also to help protect these animals for future generations. Before drills disappear, like this webpage has, learn how …
Beach - Education | National Geographic Society
2024年2月13日 · A beach is a narrow, gently sloping strip of land that lies along the edge of an ocean, lake, or river. Materials such as sand, pebbles, rocks, and seashell fragments cover beaches. Most beach materials are the products of weathering and erosion. Over many years, water and wind wear away at the land.
Beach - Education | National Geographic Society
2024年2月13日 · A beach is a narrow strip of land that lies along the edge of an ocean, lake, or river. Materials such as sand , pebbles , rocks, and seashell fragments cover beaches . Beaches are created as wind and waves crush rocks and other materials into tiny sand grains.
Dune - Education | National Geographic Society
2024年9月27日 · A dune is a mound of sand formed by the wind, usually along the beach or in a desert. Dunes form when wind blows sand into a sheltered area behind an obstacle. Dunes grow as grains of sand accumulate. Every dune has a windward side and a slipface. A dune's windward side is the side where the wind is blowing and pushing material up.
Coast - Education | National Geographic Society
2023年11月28日 · If you've ever been to the beach, you've been on a coast. The coast is the land along a sea. The boundary of a coast, where land meets water, is called the coastline. Waves, tides, and currents help create coastlines. When waves crash onto shore, they wear away at, or erode, the land.
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Delta - Education | National Geographic Society
2023年11月15日 · Delta Blues Delta blues is a style of music developed by African American artists living and performing in the Mississippi Delta region of the southern United States. The Mississippi Delta is actually a floodplain between two rivers in northwestern Mississippi, the Mississippi and the Yazoo, and it is sometimes referred to as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
Lagoon - Education | National Geographic Society
2023年10月19日 · A lagoon is a shallow body of water protected from a larger body of water (usually the ocean) by sandbars, barrier islands, or coral reefs. Lagoons are often called estuaries, sounds, bays, or even lakes. Coastal Lagoons Lagoons sheltered by sandbars or barrier islands are called coastal lagoons. Coastal lagoons form along coastal plains —flat or …
Marine Debris - National Geographic Society
2024年3月11日 · The event features beach clean-ups, river clean-ups, and even underwater clean-ups for dive sites. It is the world's largest volunteer effort to clean up the marine environment and collect marine environmental data from both land and underwater sites.
Media - Education | National Geographic Society
2023年10月19日 · Whether on a local, national, or world level, news media communicates stories to its audience through television broadcasts, magazine articles, websites, newspapers, and more. An NBC 6 News television reporter interviews a Miami Beach police officer. Photograph by Sean Drakes/Getty Images