Reaching Altitude: Prepare To Go Sky High!

On this journey you will go to Mount Everest and back, the home to many mountain goats and other rare species. The animals living here must cope with cold, lack of food, and steep rocky terrain.

A mountain is a large landform that rises above the surrounding land. They can have high elevations that produce a colder climate than the rest. There is no fixed shape for a mountain. But they usually have sharp, jagged edges, but the size, height and steepness can be different. Mount Everest, the higest mountain in the world, in the Himalayas of Asia, has a summit of 8,850 metres.

The formation of a mountain is the same as a volcano. The magma builds up pressure, whilst two tectonic plates push and rub each other, and in the end the magma explodes, pushing the two plates up in a triangular shape. As the lava made this happen, it doesn’t have enough time to burst out or come to the surface because the two plates have already fixed together. Scientists studying this never really know wether the end result is a mountain or a volcano.

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Food Boundaries

We all know about donuts - rings of bread, usually covered with different icings, or mabye even sprinkles. The donut to a scientist is ‘the edge’ of human food, and no food could be more ansintoformosed - or weirder in the common tongue. New-to-science Bevel Astronu has explained to many universities and museums in England that there could be other foods out there - infinite combinations and flavours. And then, 3 years after telling the cleverest minds that a simple donut was not the end of foods, he decided to start his experiments. He started 20 years ago and has finally finished his massive discovery. It is all written down on various sheets of paper and in complicated language, but our team at Toby News have manage to simmer it down to just three quarters of an article. “We live a new age - one of seven boundaries of the seven foodstuffs of the seven planets revolving around eating. I call these limits the Phosferacational Layers, one that humanity has not ...

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