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Once upon a time, there was a little girl named 

Autumn. Autumn was curious about everything on 

EARTH, and she liked to dress like a pirate. Some 

people thought this ABSOLUTE obsession with 

understanding the world around her was ABNORMAL, 

but Autumn disagreed. Autumn spent all of her time 

exploring her ENVIRONMENT with her best friend, 

CATALYST the cat, who was a GEOLOGIST. Together, 

Autumn and Catalyst, the geologist, set out to learn 

about a few things that they were curious 

about,DINOSAURS, EARTHQUAKES, OCEANIC life, 

and VOLCANOES. With an ABUNDANCE of questions, 

they ABRUPTLY took ACTION, and left their home to 

go exploring. With Catalyst ACCOMPANYING her, 

Autumn knew that they would find fun, adventure, 

and maybe some answers along the way. (14)

First, Autumn wanted to know about what happened to the 

dinosaurs, so she and Catalyst wandered into the DESERT 

to look for some EVIDENCE of the EXTINCT animals. Being 

the expert geologist that Catalyst was, she pointed out to 

Autumn some GIGANTIC FOSSILS that were once 

dinosaurs. Now that Autumn had seen some RECORD of 

dinosaur life, she wanted to know why they went into 

EXTINCTION. Catalyst explained that no one knew, but it 

could have been a FLOOD, a METEORITE, CLIMATE change, 

or any other number of CATACLYSMIC EVENTS. The 

important thing is that with the proper RESOURCES, 

archaeologists absorb information from the clues that 

dinosaurs left behind. Eventually when they have 

ACCUMULATED enough information from the 

ENVIORNMENT, they can create THEORIES of what went 

wrong. (30)

Next, Autumn and   Catalyst decided to RESEARCH why 

we have EARTHQUAKES. They OBSERVED that 

earthquakes OCCUR at random, but that there is a 

SCALE used to MEASURE the RELEASE of ENERGY that 

occurs during an earthquake, and that scientists can 

determine the DEGREE of an earthquake by measuring 

the movement at the EPICENTER of the quake. They also 

learned that they occur due to the shifting of Earth's 

PLATES in a PROCESS called PLATE TECTONICS, which is 

responsible for the CONTINENTS DRIFTING apart in a 

process called CONTINENTAL DRIFT. As of today, there 

is no APPARANT ANTECEDANT that tells us when an 

earthquake is coming, but there are some signs and 

MACHANICAL machines that can alert us immediately 

when an earthquake is beginning, and someday maybe 

they will predict them too. (49)

Satisfied with their knowledge and ANALYSIS of the 

PLANET and earthquakes, the pair of adventurers wandered 

down to the SHORELINE that was ADJACENT to the FAULT 

LINE that they had been observing, to accumulate some 

knowledge of ocean life. Autumn and Catalyst decided the 

best way to observe natural PHENOMENON was to snorkle 

through the water to see the BARRIER REEF. They used 

some INSTRUMENTS as they snorkeled to allow them to 

see the BACTERIA   that live underwater. Since they were 

both COMPETENT swimmers, they were able to ALTERNATE 

sharing the oxygen tank, and still had the CAPACITY   to 

observe the life all around them that could not be seen 

from the COAST. Autumn could hardly CONTAIN her 

excitement when she saw a crab EMERGE   from the 

CONFINES of his shell! When she felt brave enough, she 

even reached out her hand to make CONTACT with the 

critter.

(65)

The ocean was just such a large HABITAT to observe, that Autumn and 

Catalyst spent several hours observing and recording their DATA. They 

made a CHART of all of the creatures that they saw, and even swam into a 

dark CHAMBER in an underwater cave to see some truly unique fish! 

Eventually, their oxygen tank began to run low though, and unless they 

could magically CONVERT H2O into oxygen, they decided that it might be 

best to leave the water and FOCUS on some other ELEMENT   of the GLOBE 

such as volcanoes. First they would need to eat though because it had been 

a long day and they needed more CALORIES and FUEL for their bodies or 

they would COLLAPSE! On their way to get some dinner, they COLLIDED 

with a THUNDERSTORM! "EL NINO has struck again," Autumn thought, "So 

much for the DROUGHT!" A little RAINFALL never hurt anyone though, so 

they grabbed some umbrellas and enjoyed the RAINSTORM and 

REFLECTED that they should be   grateful it was simply PRECIPITATION and 

wasn't a BLIZZARD! She noticed that the storm had already started to slow 

down to a DRIZZLE, and she knew that the water would EVAPORATE soon 

enough!

(88)

As Autumn and Catalyst made their way to a DORMANT 

volcano that was DOWNSTREAM from a nearby river, they saw 

some EROSION of the hardened LAVA that was now IGNEOUS 

ROCK. The igneous rock had been weathered by the stream 

bed and rock SEDIMENT had been washed away. The DOME of 

the volcano was tall and pointed, and easily seen from the spot 

where Autumn and Catalyst sat. Autumn had a small LAPSE in 

judgment, and decided that she wanted to hike to the top of 

the volcano to look for some MAGMA. Unfortunately, she 

couldn't see any from the top. Even though the volcano was 

dormant, out of RESPECT   for the environment, she was 

careful not to leave anything FLAMMABLE by the volcano, just 

in case it should catch fire from the heat. There wasn't any 

PRESENT danger of an ERUPTION, but Autumn was 

PREDOMINANTLY sensible by nature, so she and Catalyst took 

their leave to return home.

(102)

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