The Geological History of Spider Crater
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists study a place in Australia.
- A2
Scientists study Spider Crater in Western Australia.
- B1
Spider Crater is a geological formation that is located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
- B2
Located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Spider Crater is a geological formation created by a meteorite strike.
- C1
Located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Spider Crater is a geological formation that was created by a meteorite strike.
- C2
Deep within the Kimberley region of Western Australia lies Spider Crater, a geological formation created by a meteorite strike and shaped by hundreds of millions of years of erosion.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- strike
- a sudden and powerful hit or impact
- erosion
- the process of wind or water slowly destroying rock or soil
- remains
- the parts of something that are left after the rest has been destroyed or removed
- rebound
- the action of bouncing back after hitting something hard
- ridge
- long, narrow raised parts of a surface, especially on a mountain
- fracture
- cracks or breaks in a hard material like bone or rock
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.