. About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day.
. Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.
. From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.
. The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.
. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.
. Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.
. Louisiana loses about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of land each year to coastal erosion, hurricanes, other natural and human causes and a thing called subsidence, which means sinking
. The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
. Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
. Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population.
. The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed
. The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands.
. The word "Arctic" comes from the ancient Greek Arktikos, or "country of the great bear." Though the Greeks had no knowledge of the polar bear, they named the region after the constellation Ursus Major, the Great Bear, found in the Northern Sky.
. About 540 volcanoes on land are known. No one knows how many undersea volcanoes have erupted through history
. In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.
. Earth's atmosphere is actually about 80 percent nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen, with tiny amounts of other stuff thrown in
. Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.
. Average 100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second.
. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
. The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep
. Groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.
. The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).
. Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the sky.
. Each Wonder (in 7 wonders) has its own intrigue. Historian agree that the Pyramids stood the test of time, the Lighthouse is the only Wonder that has a practical secular use, and the Temple of Artemis was the most beautiful of all Wonders.
. A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
. The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
. The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979 meters / 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower.
. Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.
. From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.
. The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.
. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.
. Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.
. Louisiana loses about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of land each year to coastal erosion, hurricanes, other natural and human causes and a thing called subsidence, which means sinking
. The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.
. Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
. Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population.
. The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed
. The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands.
. The word "Arctic" comes from the ancient Greek Arktikos, or "country of the great bear." Though the Greeks had no knowledge of the polar bear, they named the region after the constellation Ursus Major, the Great Bear, found in the Northern Sky.
. About 540 volcanoes on land are known. No one knows how many undersea volcanoes have erupted through history
. In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.
. Earth's atmosphere is actually about 80 percent nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen, with tiny amounts of other stuff thrown in
. Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.
. Average 100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second.
. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
. The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep
. Groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.
. The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).
. Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the sky.
. Each Wonder (in 7 wonders) has its own intrigue. Historian agree that the Pyramids stood the test of time, the Lighthouse is the only Wonder that has a practical secular use, and the Temple of Artemis was the most beautiful of all Wonders.
. A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
. The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
. The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979 meters / 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower.
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