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Sun Size (Nature Facts)
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Earth (Nature Facts)
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
Honey (Nature Facts)
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Worldwide water use (Nature Facts)
On average, how much water is used worldwide each day?
About 400 billion gallons.
Softest mineral (Nature Facts)
What is the softest of all minerals?
Talc is the softest of minerals. It is commonly used to make talcum powder.
Lightning per second (Nature Facts)
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.
Volcano (Nature Facts)
What is the origin of the word "volcano"?
It derives from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
Deepest lake (Nature Facts)
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.
Fastest surface wind (Nature Facts)
What is the fastest surface wind ever recorded?
The fastest "regular" wind that's widely agreed upon was 231 mph (372 kph), recorded at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934. But during a May 1999 tornado in Oklahoma, researchers clocked the wind at 318 mph (513 kph). For comparison, Neptune's winds can rage to 900 mph (1,448 kph).
Deepest place in the ocean (Nature Facts)
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.
Deserted surface (Nature Facts)
About one-third of the Earth’s land surface is desert?
Largest lake (Nature Facts)
What is the largest lake in the world?
By size and volume it is the Caspian Sea, located between southeast Europe and west Asia.
Largest ocean (Nature Facts)
Which of the Earth’s oceans is the largest?
The Pacific Ocean covers 64 million square miles (165 million square kilometers). It is more than two times the size of the Atlantic. It has an average depth of 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers).
How much water is in the oceans (Nature Facts)
What percentage of the world’s water is in the oceans?
About 97 percent. Oceans make up about two-thirds of Earth's surface, which means that when the next asteroid hits the planet, odds are good it will splash down.
Driest place on Earth (Nature Facts)
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.
Longest river (Nature Facts)
What is the longest river?
The Nile River in Africa is 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long.
Highest mountain (Nature Facts)
What is the highest mountain?
Climbers who brave Mt. Everest in the Nepal-Tibet section of the Himalayas reach 29,035 feet (nearly 9 kilometers) above sea level. Its height was revised upward by 7 feet based on measurements made in 1999 using the satellite-based Global Positioning System.
Center of the Earth (Nature Facts)
How far is it to the center of the Earth?
The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 kilometers). Much of Earth is fluid. The mostly solid skin of the planet is only 41 miles (66 kilometers) thick -- thinner than the skin of an apple, relatively speaking.
Strongest earthquake (Nature Facts)
What was the strongest earthquake in recent times?
A 1960 Chilean earthquake, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) long. An earthquake like that under a major city would challenge the best construction techniques.
Deadliest earthquake (Nature Facts)
What was the deadliest known earthquake?
The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock. The dwellings collapsed, killing an estimated 830,000 people. In 1976 another deadly temblor struck Tangshan, China. More than 250,000 people were killed.
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