Earth
What is the hottest place on Earth?
El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius)
How much space dust falls to Earth each year?
1,000 tons
Where is the world’s highest waterfall?
The water of Angel Falls in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters)
What is the largest lake in North America?
Lake Superior.
Will Earth always be here?
Eventually the sun will exploded and the earth will no longer be here
What is the Coldest place on Earth?
Vostok, Antarctica at s -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius)
Can rocks float?
In a volcanic eruption, the violent separation of gas from lava produces a “frothy” rock called pumice, loaded with gas bubbles. Some of it can indeed float, geologists say.
so yes
Where is the lowest dry point on Earth?
The shore of the Dead Sea in the Middle East is about 1,300 feet
What's the deadliest hurricane to ever hit the United States?
A Category 4 hurricane hit Galveston, Texas
6,000 people died
(The next closest death toll was less than 1,900 from a 1928 Florida hurricane.)
What is feldspar?
it happens to be the most common mineral in Earth's crust. But I couldn't find anything about it that most of us need to know.
Is Saturn the only ringed planet?
Many planets, such as Jupiter, also have rings, but its believed that Earth also had some years ago
Can rocks grow?
Yes. Rocks called iron-manganese crusts grow on mountains under the sea.
What percentage of the world’s water is in the oceans?
97%
Where is the largest volcano?
The Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii holds the title here on Earth. It rises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above sea level
If you were to arrange Earth, the Moon, and Mars like Matryoshka nesting dolls, how would they be ordered?
Mars would nest inside Earth and the Moon would fit neatly inside Mars. Earth is about twice as big as Mars, which is about twice as big as the Moo
How far is it to the center of the Earth?
The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is nearly 3,700 miles
Good thing California isn't sinking further, right?
Actually parts of it are. In a problem repeated elsewhere in the country, the pumping of natural underground water reservoirs in California is causing the ground to sink up to 4 inches (11 centimeters) per year in places. Water and sewage systems may soon be threaten
What is the highest waterfall in the United States?
Yosemite Falls in California is 2,425 feet (739 meters).
How far does regular dust blow in the wind?
A 1999 study showed that African dust finds its way to Florida and can help push parts of the state over the prescribed air quality limit for particulate matter set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The dust is kicked up by high winds in North Africa and carried as high as 20,000 feet
Where is the world’s only equatorial glacier?
Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador supports the only glacier on the equator
What are the two major gold-producing countries?
South Africa produces 5,300 metric tons (11.5 million pounds) per year;
The United States produces more than 3,200 metric tons (7 million pounds).
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.
Which two landmasses contain most of the Earth’s fresh water supply?
Nearly 70 percent of the Earth's fresh-water supply is locked up in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland
What two great American cities are destined to merge?
The San Andreas fault, which runs north-south, is slipping at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year, causing Los Angeles to move towards San Francisco. Scientists forecast LA will be a suburb of the City by the Bay in about 15 million years
Does Earth have the worst weather in the solar system?
Not by a long shot. There’s lots of wilder weather elsewhere. Mars can whip up hurricane-like storms four times bigger than Texas. Dust storms on the red planet can obscure the entire globe! Jupiter has a hurricane twice the size our entire planet, and it’s lasted for at least three centuries! Venus is a living hell, and Pluto is routinely more frigid than the coldest place on Earth