Thursday, 4 July 2013

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT EARTH


*The water of Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there.
  • An Earthquake on Dec 16 , 1811 caused parts of Mississippi river to flow backwards.
  • If Antarctica Sheet melted , the world's ocean would rise by 60-65 metres everywhere.
  • The Amazon rain forest produces produces more than 20% of the world's water supply.
  • The Sahara desert expands at about 1 km per month.
  • The North Atlantic gets centi metres wider every year.
  • The average Ice Berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!  
  • It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1000 years to circulate around the world.
  • Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
  • Even Antarctica has an area code . Its 672.
  • 10 of the tributaries Flowing into the Amazon river are as big as Mississippi river
  • One Cubic miles of Seawater contains abt 25 kg of gold.
  • On an Average , 20,000 earthquakes are located each year , world wide.
  • There is Zero gravity at the center of the earth. 
  • A storm officially becomes a Hurricane when cyclone wind reach 199 km/hr
  • Earth is slowing down - In a few million years there wont be a leap year.
  • Thousands of Metorites falls into earth every year but most fall in  seas and unpopulated areas

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