16 Hills Are Weird

In which we discover why the Earth is so bumpity

The Earth is weirdly not-flat. (No, not that kind of flat Earth.) So why do we still have hills? Shouldn’t they all have been smooshed flat by gravity or erosion or something? We’ll talk about the powerful forces that shape the terrain, preventing most of the world from being as flat as Florida.

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