Nature Facts
1.Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?
2.The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
3.The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
4.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
5.On average, how much water is used worldwide each day?About 400 billion gallons.
6.How many lightning strikes occur worldwide every second?On average, about 100. Those are just the ones that hit the ground, though. During any given minute, there are more than a thousand thunderstorms around the Earth causing some 6,000 flashes of lightning. A lot of it goes from cloud-to-cloud.
7.What is the world’s deepest lake? Lake Baikal in the south central part of Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep. It's about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.
8.What's the deepest place in the ocean?The greatest known depth 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.
9.About one-third of the Earth’s land surface is desert
10.What's the driest place on Earth?A place called Arica, in Chile, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year. At that rate, it would take a century to fill a coffee cup.
11. What is the longest river?
The Nile River is 4, 160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long.
2.The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
3.The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
4.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
5.On average, how much water is used worldwide each day?About 400 billion gallons.
6.How many lightning strikes occur worldwide every second?On average, about 100. Those are just the ones that hit the ground, though. During any given minute, there are more than a thousand thunderstorms around the Earth causing some 6,000 flashes of lightning. A lot of it goes from cloud-to-cloud.
7.What is the world’s deepest lake? Lake Baikal in the south central part of Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep. It's about 20 million years old and contains 20 percent of Earth's fresh liquid water.
8.What's the deepest place in the ocean?The greatest known depth 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.
9.About one-third of the Earth’s land surface is desert
10.What's the driest place on Earth?A place called Arica, in Chile, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year. At that rate, it would take a century to fill a coffee cup.
11. What is the longest river?
The Nile River is 4, 160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long.