The elephant rock formation in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada – A strange natural sandstone rock formation resembling an elephant. (Steffen and Alexandra Sailer/Ardea/Caters News)
There are lots of natural rock formations, strange coloured lakes and other strange natural phenomena around the world.
Rock formations are caused after years and years of erosion and algae turned lakes into strange coloured lakes.
They are strange but so special, natural and beautiful.
I really like the pink lake; it looks so beautiful, and it is hard to believe that it is a naturally coloured lake and no artificial colouring was added 🙂
It looks so tasty too, like a lake of pink guava juice.
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The Wave in Utah – Carved rock eroded into a wave-like formation made of jurrasic-age Navajo sandstone that is approximately 190 million years old. (Steffen and Alexandra Sailer/Ardea/Caters News)
The elephant rock formation in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada – A strange natural sandstone rock formation resembling an elephant. (Steffen and Alexandra Sailer/Ardea/Caters News)
The pink Lake Hiller lake in Western Australia – Scientists have proven the strange pink color is due to the presence of algae which is usually the cause of strange coloration. (Jean Paul Ferrero/Ardea/Caters News)
Balls Pyramid – The worlds tallest sea stack, at 562 metres, in Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia. (Jean Paul Ferrero/Ardea/Caters News)
The Moeraki Boulders of New Zealand – The gigantic boulders started forming on the ocean floor and can now been seen sitting mysteriously on the coastline thanks to centuries of erosion. (Alexandra Sailer/Ardea/Caters News)
The Great Blue Hole in Belize – A large submarine sinkhole which is over 984 feet across and 407 feet deep. The sinkhole was formed during several episodes of quaternary glaciation when sea levels were much lower. (Kurt Amsler/Ardea/Caters News)
A view of the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province July 15, 2011. Picture taken July 15, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily
Green algae named enteromorpha prolifera had invade a coastline of Qingdao in Shandong Province.
The algae now covers at least 200 square miles of the Yellow Sea.
A Chinese man swims along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province on July 17, 2011. Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline and although not poisonous, it can hinder the fishing industry and tourism in affected areas. (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)
I don’t want to go into the water because it looks so dirty
Children play in seawater covered by a thick layer of green algae at a beach on July 17, 2011 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. A large area of green seaweed called enteromorpha prolifera, has approached the Qingdao coast. The algae, is non-poisonous and harmless for water quality but may threaten marine life and coastline tourism. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)A boy swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province July 15, 2011. Picture taken July 15, 2011. REUTERS/China DailyA fisherman looks at her algae-filled fish pond near the coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province July 14, 2011.
Protozoa (pro-to-zoh-uh) are one-cell micro-organisms.
Protozoa are something like animal.
They often spread diseases through water.
They also spread diseases through insects like malaria.
Protozoa that caused malaria
Anopheles mosquito spread malaria.
Protozoa is very important because they help to balance the ecosystem.
Protozoa are important in food chains too.
Protozoa eat algae and bacteria; then they are eaten by animals and those animals are eaten by other animals and so on until they die and eaten by bacteria and the bacteria are eaten by protozoa 🙂
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