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11.15.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radialized Story Hour. As a reminder,
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reize a reading service intended for people who are blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. Today we will be reading from various books
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on national parks. Your reader today is Diane. Our first
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book is titled Acadia National Park and it was published
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by Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated. It has
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a copyright year of twenty eighteen and the author is
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Odra Wallace. Welcome to Acadia National Park. Acadia is in
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Maine and was made a National park in nineteen sixteen.
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People visit National Park six four nature. The Rockefellers, one
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of America's richest families, helped to create Acadia. For more
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than one hundred years, the family has continued to give
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money and land to the park. There are many fun
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things to do in Acadia. You can climb high cliffs
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and visit a lighthouse. You can even ride a horse
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drong carriage through the forest. Be sure to bring your
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flip flops because Acadia has beaches too. Akadie was the
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first National park on the East coast of the United States.
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The lighthouse Bass Harbor Head lighthouse was built in eighteen
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fifty eight. Chapter one and Icy Past. For millions of year,
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much of Earth was freezing cold. During this ice age,
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huge sheets of ice moved over parts of the planet.
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These glaciers moved out Acadia's rocky mountaintops. One of those
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mountains is Cadillac Mountain. Cadillac Mountain is the tallest mountain
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in the park. It is one thousand and five hundred
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and thirty feet tall, which makes it taller than most skyscrapers.
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A glacier also cut through Mount Desert Island. It left
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behind a firearms palm sound. The glaciers carried big rocks
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with them. Bubble Rock is a giant stone that ended
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up on the edge of a cliff. It has been
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there for thousands of years. Bubble Rock weighs one hundred tons,
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which is fourteen times as heavy as an elephant. Chapter
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two Seaside Sights. Ice is not the only thing that
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shaped Acadia. Powerful waves from the Atlantic Ocean did too.
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The waves made hoes called sea caves in the cliffs
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along the shore. The most famous sea cave is thunder Hoe.
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It sounds like thunder when a big wave smashes into it.
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And the air trapped inside is forced out a Kadi
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is home to many beaches. Most are covered by gravel
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and small stones, Some are covered with cobblestones, and a
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few have sand. The park is also home to Otter Cliff.
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At one hundred and ten feet tall, it is one
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of the highest cliffs on the Atlantic Coast. Climbing Otter
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Cliff is not easy. Crashing waves can make the cliff
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very slippery. Some cobblestones are as big as basketballs Chapter three,
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That's Wild. Not all of Kadia's sites are by the sea.
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Visitors hike, bike, and ride horses through the forest. They
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travel on stone trails called carriage roads. Stone bridges are
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also found in the park. Some go over roads, other
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crossover streams. John D. Rockefeller Junior built the park's first
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carriage roads near his home. He wanted to ride his
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horse and carriage on them. Akadia's forests are filled with
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different kinds of trees. One of the most common is
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paper birch. Other types of trees includes spruce, fur, sugar maple,
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red oak, and poplar. In spring, wildflowers bloom in the metals.
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Plants like water lilies and cattails grow in marshes and ponds.
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In summer, you can pick blueberries along the park's trail.
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Native Americans once use birchs to make baskets and canoes.
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Paper birch canoes are light but strong. Chapter four Akkadia's animals.
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You may see white tailed deer nibbling on the grass
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in Acadia. Black beerries and moose live in the park too,
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but they are rarely seen. More than three hundred types
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of birds live in Acadia. One of them is the
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pearregrine falcon. It builds its nest high in the cliffs.
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The moose is main state animal. Many animals live in
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the U Ocean near Acadia. People go on boat trips
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to get a closer look. Seals and dolphins play in
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the waves, hump back wells leap into the air. Some
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visitors are lucky enough to see Atlantic puffins. These birds
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hang out on small islands in the sea. The Atlantic
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puffin can hold more than ten fish in its mouth
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at one time. More than two million people visit Acadia
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each year. This beautiful park is often called the crown
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Jewel of Maine. Is the only place on the East
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coast of the United States where the mountains are so
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close to the sea. Imagine you could visit Acadia, what
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would you do there? There are just some incredible animals
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that make their home in or near Acadia. They are
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snapping turtle, Atlantic puffin, bullfrog, white tailed deer, Eastern smooth
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green snake, black moose, Atlantic salmon, river otter, peregrine, falcon,
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humbackwell spotted salamander. The park is home to about three
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hundred and sixty four types of birds, fifty five types
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of mammals, twenty six types of reptiles and amphibians, thirty
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three types of fish. Our next book is titled Zion
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National Park. It was published by Children's Press and Imprint
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of Scholastic Incorporated as a copyright year of twenty eighteen
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and the author is Jody Shepherd's Welcome to Zion National Park.
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Zion is in southern Utah. It was made a National
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park in nineteen nineteen. People visit National Park sixth floor nature.
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The word Zion means safe, peaceful place. The park is
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filled with beautiful canyons, is home to incredible animals and plants.
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American Indians called this place moukin chew up that means
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straight up canyon visitors to Zion stand at the bottom
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of the canyon. They look up at the steep, orange
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and red colored cliffs. The view is amazing. Chapter one,
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Rock the Park. Zion did not always look this way.
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About two hundred and fifty million years ago, the area
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was covered by a shallow sea. Over millions of years,
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the sea became lakes. Then the area turned into desert.
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Forces under the earth pushed up huge sandstone cliffs. The
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land is still changing. Year after year, wind and water
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reshape the cliffs. If you take your car to the park,
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you can drive right through the cliffs. Zion Mount Carmel
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Tunnel opened in nineteen thirty. The tunnel was famous. It
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was hard to dig a road through the rock. The
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tunnel is about a mile long. It took three years
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to build. There are six windows carved into the tunnel.
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They let in light and fresh air. They also lit
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in amazing views. Just outside the tunnel, visitors pass checkerboard Mesa.
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Many visitors stop their cars to get a good look
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at this unique rock formation. Chapter two. Let it grow.
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Some parts of Zion are high and others low, so
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there are many habitats. There are desert areas and woodlands
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wetlands lining the river banks. Each habitat is home to
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different types of trees and plants. These range from desert
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cacti to the pine trees that grow in the park's
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highest spots. The prickly pear cactus grows in the lower
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parts of the park. In Zion's famous hanging gardens, plants
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seem to grow straight out of the rocks. The gardens
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are home to many unique plants. They are also home
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to the world's smallest snail. The Zion snail looks like
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a tiny black spot on the rocky cliffs. This tiny
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creature can be found only in this park. Chapter three,
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Watch Out for Water. Much of Zion is desert, but
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water is still an important part of the park. Animals
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need water to live. The Virgin River and smaller streams
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that empty into it wind through the park. A trail
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called the Narrows leads hikers along the river at the
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bottom of the canyon. Flash floods are a danger. They
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happen when heavy rainfall causes the river's water level to
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rise suddenly. The part of the park known as Collob
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Canyons gets more rain than the rest of Zion. Spring
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rains bring beautiful waterfalls to this quiet area. The skies
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over Zion are very dark at night. That makes the
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stargazing out of this world. Chapter four Wonderful Wildlife. Sioning
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is home to all kinds of animals. Some are in danger.
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That means few are left. Desert bighorn sheep had disappeared
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from Zion completely, then scientists brought some back to the park.
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Now there are more than four hundreds. Mule deer are
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easy to spot in the park. They get their name
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from their large mule like ears. Their sense of smell
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is about one thousand times as good as a person's.
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A mule baby deer or fawn has spotted coach for
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the first few months of its life. Visitor is explore
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Zion National Park in lots of ways. They may ride
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horses or bicycles. They may go rock climbing or hiking.
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Anyway you choose. This park is always a wild adventure.
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Here are just a few of the incredible animals that
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make up their home in Zion. Red fox, Western rattlesnake,
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giant desert harry scorpion, mule deer, paragrine falcon, California condor,
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Mexican spotted owl, horned leopard lizard, desert bighorned sheep, cane
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and tree frog, mountain lion. The park is home to
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about two hundred and ninety one types of birds, seventy
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eight types of mammals, forty four types of reptiles and amphibians,
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and eight types of fish. Our next book is titled
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Rocky Mountain National Park. It was published by Children's Press,
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an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated. It's a copyright of twenty
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eighteen and the author is Lisa M. Harrington. Welcome to
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Rocky Mountain National Park. Rocky was made in National Park
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in nineteen fifteen. People visit parks like this one to
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explore nature. Rocky Mountain National Park is named for the
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mountain range that runs through it. It is located in Colorado.
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This park has it all. You may see, rugged cliffs
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and snow capped mountains that are evergreen, forest and clear lakes.
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Many plants and animals live here too. Rocky spans four
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hundred and fifteen square miles that is about six times
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as large as Washington d c. Chapter one miighty mountains.
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The park is part of the Rocky Mountains. This western
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mountain range runs all the way to Canada. Long ago
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glaciers helped shape the park. As these huge pieces of
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ice flowly melted, they left behind massive mountains. They also
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carved out valleys between the mountains. Some of the highest
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mountains in the United States are found in the park.
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It has seventy eight peaks that are more than two
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miles high. Many are covered with snow year round. At
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fourteen and fifty nine feet long, Peaks is the park's
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tallest mountain. Chapter two, A Land of Extremes burr. The
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top of the park is very cold and windy. You
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will find mountain tundra here, that is land where it
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is too cold for trees to grow. Only small plants
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and grasses grow. As you move down the mountain, the
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landscape changes. Trees grow on the slopes below the tundra.
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They include pine, aspen and blue spruce trees. Streams flow
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over some mountain cliffs into wild waterfalls. There are also
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many lakes and rivers. Meadows fill the valleys at the
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bottom of the slopes. Meatals are grassy fields, and spring
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and summer they burst with colorful wild flowers. Hundreds of
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types of flowering plants grow in the park. Chapter three
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Amazing animals. When you visit the park, bring your binoculars.
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Is famous for its large animals, bighorn sheep cling to
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Rocky ledges, elk, mule, deer, and moose grays in the valley.
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About three hundred and fifty big horn sheep live in
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the park. Many small animals are found here too. They
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include chipmunks and furry squirrel like marmots. Beavers live near rivers.
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Eagles and falcons sore high above. More than one hundred
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and forty kinds of beautiful butterflies flutter through the meadow.
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Chapter four A park for all seasons. There are lots
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of ways to see the park. One way is by car.
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Trail Ridge Road rises into the tundra. No other continuous
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paved road in the US will take you as high.
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You can explore on foot too. Some people climb the
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tiring mountains, They hike through trails. Others fish, ride horses
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and camp. In winter, the snowy slopes are busy. People ski,
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sled and snowshoot. No matter the season, Rocky's majestic mountains
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have something for everyone. Here are just some of the
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incredible animals that make their home in Rocky. Painted Lady butterfly, beaver,
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burrell toad, big horn sheep, yellow bellied marmot, mountain lion, elk, pika, body, eagle, mule, deer, moose.
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The park is home to about two hundred and seventy
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types of birds, sixty seven types of mammals, six types
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of reptiles and amphibians, and eleven types of fish. The
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next book I will read is on Spring and it's
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titled Springs Sprung. It was published by Simon and Schuster
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Books for Young Readers, has a copyright year of two
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thousand and two and the author is Lynn Plored. Mother
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Earth rouses her daughter's March, April, and may you must
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wake the world to start a new day. The spring
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sister's grown don't even budge till Mother Earth ask, do
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you each need a nudge? No, no, no, they say,
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so quick, we'll all be dressed in a flickity flick.
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March stumbles and tumbles out of her bed, grabs any
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old thing, pulls it over her head. April's more practical,
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finds a one piece suit as long as it's warm,
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Who cares if it's cute? Mace fussy yet fast, tries
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to match and mix. After a dozen tries. It's the violets.
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She picks first, first first. Each sayest with pride, Mother,
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I'm the fastest. The others lied, Mother, Mother, look I'm dressed.
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Was I faster than all the rest? Mother Earth smiles
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at each of their styles. You are the fastest March
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I ever did see, and the fastest April I have
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ever did see, And the fastest May I ever did see.
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M pooh dree. Each wants to be the fastest of
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all the three. Mother Earth warns you're taking too long. Now,
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stop bickering and practice your song. March howls and growls
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like a monsoon, then whips and puffs a quieter tune. Next,
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April Psalm wets the ground as her tinkly sprinkly drizzles
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dripped down. May practice the scales drill after drill, then
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serenades all with a soprano trill, La la la. Each
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sings aloud into Mother's ears. Oh so proud, Mother, Mother,
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do icing the best? Do I sing better than all
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the rest? Mother Earth swoons at each of their tunes.
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You are the best March singer I have ever did here,
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and the best April singer I ever did here? And
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the best May singer I ever did here umph pood dree.
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Each wants to be the best singer of all three.
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The sister squabble like siblings. Do Mother loves me more
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than she loves you? Does not? Does too loves me?
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Not you sob sob boo who? Mother Earth shushes her
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daughters March April and may stop this silliness, girls, just
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start the new day. The Spring Sisters burst into tears,
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each hoding to hopes but fearing their fears. Me me, me,
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tell me, I'm the one your favorite daughter under the sun.
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Mother Mother, do you love me the best? Do you
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love me better than all the rest? Mother Earth huddles
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her girls in a cuddle. Now listen, March April, May,
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and remember what I say. A mother's heart is big
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enough to grow and grow and stretch and stretch the truth.
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I love you all the best. Hooray, whoopee wee. She
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loves you and me. The Spring Sister smile with pride, shouting,
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Wake up world, Skipping side by side, Spring sprung a
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new day's begun. After waking the world, Time to wake
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one more girl, So March April and may simply say summer, Oh, summer,
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Come out and play. Our next story is about light,
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and the book is called light Waves. It was published
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by Holiday House. It has a copyright year of twenty
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eighteen and the author is David A. Adler. We need
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light to see, Plants need like to grow. Animals need
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plants to eat. Since plants and animals are the food
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we eat, we would have no food without light. Without light,
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we just could not survive. We need light. But what
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is it? You can see it, but you can't touch it.
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You can't hold it, carry it, taste it, or smell it.
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Light is a form of energy. Energy is the ability
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to do work. Energy comes from the sun and the
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form of sunlight is transferred to the grass, then to
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the cattle. From the cattle is transferred to the hot dogs.
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From the hot dogs is transferred to us. You can't
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make energy, you can't destroy it. Energy can only be
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transferred moved from one thing to another. For example, sunlight
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is a form of energy. It helps grass grow. Cows
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eat grass in the grass they eat helps them grow. Later,
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meat from these cows is used to make hot dogs.
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Even later, people get energy from eating those hot dogs.
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Much of our light comes from the sun light, from
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the Sun, solar energy can be collected. It can be
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used to power our machines and heat our homes. The
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Sun is almost ninety three million miles or at one
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hundred and fifty million kilometers from Earth. That's a long way.
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Would take a car speining at sixty miles or about
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seventy ninety seven kilometers an hour more than one hundred
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and seventy years to travel that far, But it takes
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unlight just eight minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth.
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Light travels at the tremendous speed of one hundred eighty
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six thousand, two hundred eighty two miles per second or
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two hundred and ninety nine thousand, seven hundred ninety two
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kilometers per second. That's fast. Nothing travels faster. When we
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see light, we're seeing streams of light waves. These streams
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are made of photons. Photons are tiny bits of light
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that travel together in wavy streams of light. You can
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think of the waves as very long bands with crest
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high points and valleys low points. Waves of light, with
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their crest and valleys, travel in straight lines. Light waves
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travel through air in straight lines, but you can bend light.
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Light won't travel at all through this book. It doesn't
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travel through stone or wood. It won't travel through you. Stone, wood,
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books and people are opeck. Light won't pass through them.
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Opaque objects and light rays form shadows. Light does travel
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through somethings. Of course, light travels through air. Light also
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travels through glass and clear plastic grap That's because air,
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glass and clear plastic grap are transparent. Light doesn't travel
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completely through wax paper, frosted glass, or honey. If you
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look through a sheet of wax paper, whatever is on
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the other side of the paper seems flurry. That's because
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wax paper, frosted glass, and honey are translucent. Light waves
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bounce offt surfaces such as apples, the hoods of cars,
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and large bodies of water. When light waves hit a
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shiny and completely flat surface, the light waves bounce straight back.
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Then you get a reflection of what is facing that shiny,
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flat surface. A mirror is shiny and flat, reflects just
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about all the light that hits it. The light bounces
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directly off the mirror, so you can get almost perfect
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reflection of whatever is facing it. Imagine you're in a
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playground and you throw a ball against the wall. The
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ball bounces right back. That's what happens when you look
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at a mirror, the light waves bounce right back. When
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you look at a surface that's not as shiny and
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flat as a mirror, the light rays don't bounce right back.
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They become somewhat scattered, so you don't get an exact reflection.
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Get a large shiny metal soup spoon. It's shining like
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a mirror, but it's not flat. Look at the back
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of the spoon. You can see yourself, but it's not
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exact reflect Reflection should be somewhat elongated. To understand why
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your reflection is elongated, imagine you are in a playground
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with a huge half globe. If you throw the ball
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against the top part of the globe, the ball bounces up.
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If you throw the ball straight ahead, it bounces straight back.
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Throw the ball against the bottom part of the globe,
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the ball bounces down. That's what happens when you look
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at the back of a spoon. The lightwaves do not
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all bounce straight back. Lightwaves bounce up off the top
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of the spoon and down off the bottom. Look at
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the inside shining bow of the spoon. The side of
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the scoops up soup, your reflection is upside down. To
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understand why your reflection is upside down, imagine you walk
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behind the huge half globe in the playground and there's
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no back to it. It's a large concave shape. If
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you throw the ball down against the bottom part of
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the globe, the ball bounces up. When you look at
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the front of the spoon, light waves that strike the
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bottom of the spoon bounce up, and light waves that
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strike the top of the spoon bounce down. Up goes down,
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and down goes up. The reflection on a shiny concave
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shape is upside down. Pure light looks clear as if
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it has no color. We call that white light. But
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white light is not really colorless. It's made of spectrum
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of colors. A prism, a triangular column of glass can
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be used to split white light into seven colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
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and violet. Light waves. Think again, of light waves as
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wavy bands made up of tiny bits of light. These
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bands of light have crest high points and valleys low points.
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What makes the colors of the light waves different is
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the distance each color has between its crest. With the
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red waves, the distance between the crest is greatest. The
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distance is smallest with the violet waves. We see objects
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because light waves are reflected off them, but not all
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light waves are reflected. Some light waves are absorbed. When
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an apple appears red, it's because red light waves are
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reflected off the apple. The other colored waves are absorbed.
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When a sheet of paper appears white, all the colors
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of the spectrum are reflected off the paper. When the
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cover of your notebook appears black, none of the colors
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of the spectrum are reflected. They all have been absorbed.
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Light does more than illuminate our world. It colors it.
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Light waves are just part of the electromagnetic spectrum, the
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visible part of waves of energy that pass through our world,
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the visible spectrum. The distance between the crest of the
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waves is greyst with red light, but there are light
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waves with a slightly greater distance between crest, We just
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cannot see them. Those are in frayred light waves sometimes
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called hot light, and the visible spectrum. The distance between
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the crest of the waves is smallest with the violet light.
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But there are light waves with a slightly shorter distance
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between crest. We just cannot see them. Those are ultraviolet
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light waves, a form of radiation that gives us sun tans.
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In addition to ultraviolet and then fired waves that we
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cannot see, there are other waves of energy beyond the
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visible spectrum, including microwaves, radio waves, X rays, and gamma rays.
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They're certainly more to the form of energy we know
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as light than simply flicking a switch and illuminating a
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dark room. Light SNSED sustains our world. This concludes our
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story our for today. Please join us next time as
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we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales. Thank
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you for listening and please stay tuned for the Lex
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