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1) Planet Earth View
2) The Animal Kingdom View

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Very clearly and in a lot of detail

Vividly

An unusual, exciting or impressive event or sight

Spectacle

A situation in which things gradually join to become one thing

Convergence

Taking photographs or making videos

Shooting

Recording an event in a film or photograph

Capturing

Objects with three legs used for supporting a camera

Tripod

Gathered close together

Huddled

Putting your feet down on something in a heavy way that causes damage

Trampling

So dirty that you might catch diseases

Unsanitary

Extremely strict and severe

Draconian

An occasion where a lot of people do something in an extreme way

Orgy

Rain, snow, hail etc

Precipitation

To see something very briefly and not very well

Glimpse

Lasting for a very short time

Ephemeral

A remarkable thing

Phenomenon

Something that is good enough; acceptable

Adequate

Exact and accurate

Precise

To be dressed warmly and snugly

Bundled up

To move repeatedly backwards and forwards or from side to side from a fixed point

Swing

To move very slowly and clumsily

Lumber

To move between lots of places without staying for very long in any of them

Flit

To move quite slowly

Crawl

To move through the air

Fly

To move quickly and aggressively towards something

Charge

To move up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements

Flutter

To move quietly, in a secret way

Steal

To walk in a proud way, with their head held high and their chest out, as if they are very important.

Strut

To walk around in a casual way

Wander

To move wings quickly up and down

Flap

To move quickly with large steps or jumps

Bound

To move more quickly than when you walk

Run

To run slowly

Jog

To move fairly fast at a speed between walking and running, taking small quick steps.

Trot

To walk with short, quick steps, swinging slightly from side to side

Waddle

To move suddenly downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement.

Swoop

To walk slowly and in a relaxed manner

Amble

To run very fast so that all four legs are off the ground at the same time.

Gallop

To move around quietly, for example when hunting

Prowl

To leap, move about, or act in a playful manner; frolic

Frisk

To move almost as if you are dancing, with a series of little jumps from one foot to the other.

Skip

To go quickly up into the air

Soar

To move there quickly with small, light steps

Scamper

To move towards the top of something

Climb

To jump high in the air or to jump a long distance

Leap

To move silently and in a smooth and effortless way

Glide

To go quickly downwards, head-first, through the air or through water

Dive

To move along in a curving way

Slither

To run in an easy and relaxed way, taking long steps.

Lope

To move along by jumping on both feet

Hop

Between or involving different countries

International

Threatened with extinction

Endangered

When something keeps developing or happening more quickly and keeps becoming less likely to stop.

Momentum

Impetus

An impelling movement or force; incentive or impulse; stimulus

You stated or argued that it is true.

Contended

A principle that applies in all cases or a characteristic that is present in all members of a particular class.

Universal

When something is gradually decreasing in strength, quality or amount.

Decline

An event that results in serious damage, death or problems.

Disaster

A thing or person you admire a lot.

Marvel

When something fills a place quickly and in large numbers.

Overrrun

An animal that is not wild or dangerous, usually because it is controlled by humans.

Tame

Something that is the only one of its type; one of a kind.

Unique

An idea or picture of something in your mind.

Vision

A document that gives someone's reasons for believing that something is or is not true.

Witness statement

Raised areas; height

Elevations

To live or dwell in; occupy

Inhabit

The environment in which an animal or plant normally lives or grows

Habitat

Lacking a favourable climate, terrain, etc

Inhospitable

A slope which rises at a very sharp angle and is difficult to go up.

Steep

To balance or turn on a central point.

Pivot

Agile, quick, and neat in movement

Nimble

To jump high in the air or jump a long distance.

Leap

The death of all remaining living members in a species of animal or plant

Extinction

To you make animals move along as a group

Herding

Animals such as cattle and sheep which are kept on a farm

Livestock

Somthings height above sea level

Altitude

Something which can move quickly and easily

Agile

An area of land which is uneven and covered with rocks, with few trees or plants.

Rugged

The creatures that an animal hunts and eats in order to live

Prey

Something that is weak and without protection, with the result that they are easily hurt

Vulnerable

Rarely encountered; in low numbers

Scarce

To do something which harms or annoys some in return for them harming or annoying you

Retaliation

A station where nuclear energy is converted into heat, electricity, etc

Nuclear plant

Is a machine which is used to produce nuclear energy

Nuclear reactor

Very small particles of a radioactive substance.

Radiation

Something that contains a substance that produces energy in the form of powerful and harmful rays

Radioactive

An area where people are not allowed to go because it is to dangerous

Exclusion zone

Made impure by the addition of a harmful or undesirable substance

Contaminated

Cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.

Cancerous

A change in the chromosomes or genes of a cell.

Mutations

Masses of diseased or abnormal cells that has grown in a person's or animal's body.

Tumours

Something which fails to work properly.

Malfunctioning

Jumbled or unclear because of distortion or omissions

Garbled

An accident or illness which causes someone's death.

Fatal

Very green and growing well

Lush

To grow in a strong and healthy way

Flouring

Growing and developing very successfully

Thriving

Not affected by something dangerous

Resistant

Able to return to good condition after a negative event

Resilient

A new period of activity after a difficult time

Resurgent

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