General Awareness: Interesting Facts of the Earth
The Earth is a beautiful home to love with an atmosphere that is capable of sustaining life and a temperature range that allows for the 3 states of water (Solid, Liquid and Gas). But these life-sustaining substance come at a price.
Interesting Facts:
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South in front of AmericA.
- The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
- If Antarctica's sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters every where.
- The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
- 10 of the Tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are are as big as the Mississippi river.
- The Sahara desert expands at about 1 km per month or 48 km per year.
- The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
- The percentage of Africa, that is, wilderness: 28%. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
- The average ice berg weights 20,000,000 tons.It takes a drop of ocean water more that 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
- Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
- Europe is the only continent without a desert.
- A Volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
- Due to gravitational effects, you weight slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
- Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
- One cubic mile of seawater contains about 25 kg of gold.
- Plates carrying the continents migrate over the earth's surface a few centimetres per year, about the same speed that a fingernail grows.
- On average, 20,000 earthquakes are located each year, world wide.
- The magnetic North Pole is near Ellef Ringes Island in northern Canada.
- The magnetic South Pole was discovered off the coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.
- There is zero gravity at the centre of Earth.
- A storm officially becomes a hurricane when cyclone winds reach 119 km/h.
- Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.
- About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas. There is no record of person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.
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