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= Evoworld =

General Background
EvoWorld orbits two suns in an elliptical orbit. This causes its environment not to change very much throughout a year, causing a lack of seasons. The planet started out as a very warm planet with high humidity and life flourished in rainforest-like ecosystems. This all changed when a small planet collided with EvoWorld and moved its orbit two times as far from the suns. This caused the planet to become very cold with drops of up to 100 degrees. This meant that the planet went from being a giant rainforest to having ice and hot springs. This also caused a severe reduction in the atmosphere of the planet because of the reduction in organisms that expelled carbon dioxide. This led to more solar radiation and immense selection for organisms that could survive best in those conditions. The mid equadoral divergent plate boundary moved apart by six centimeters over the course of a year. This caused magma from the core of the planet to rise up through the gap and cause immense heat to pockets of water surrounding it. The bulk of the water on EvoWorld is salty and found at the north and south poles. This ecosystem is made of liquid at 90% salinity. This means that even though the water is at -32ºC, it is still liquid. In these conditions, certain extremophile organisms can survive. Small areas of land exist but are mostly made of bedrock. it does not rain, but instead only hails. It is humid and mostly white, as this is the color of the photosynthesizing bacteria and plant type species. This is one of the very few places with water on the planet. Life forms here must grow and thrive on minerals that corrode from nearby land and rock because of the extremely corrosive properties of salt. Closer to the equator, desert-like ecosystems exist with very little water. The ecosystem is made of sand and rock. The only water there is found deep underground (2 miles). The sand is very densely packed. On the surface, large quantities of solar radiation hit the ground. The average temperature is 15ºC. Under the sand, the temperature reaches above 0ºC which means that the water is liquid. The sand is mostly black which means that it absorbs most of the heat from the suns and is around 50ºC. Very little life can survive here and mostly it is used as a seasonal place of migration from the poles to the equator. On the equator, large underwater hot spots with an average temperature of 2000ºC, this limits most life from surviving and therefore this ecosystem is mostly metal and certain thermophiles. The immense heat rises from the core of the planet. Divergent plate boundaries slowly separate and cause molten iron to rise up high enough to make the water very hot. The area surrounding these water pockets is made of extremely densely packed rocks which lead to the water having immense pressure and a corresponding higher boiling point.

The idea for creating a wikipedia page on sandbox can be attributed to Seth Evan Peace