Climate Change
What cities are sinking due to rising water levels?
Venice, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Las Nevada
What country has the most active volcanos?
Indonesia (130)
What percent of Earth is covered by water?
71%
Why is the sky blue?
Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels in shorter and smaller wavelengths
What are the layers of the Earth?
Inner core, outter core, mantle, and crust
What country emits the most carbon dioxide (CO2) anually?
China
How many mountains are in Acadia Nation Park?
26
How much of our Oceans have been explored?
5% of the open ocean has been explored and 26.1% of the globan seafloor has been mapped
Which layer of the atmosphere absorbs the most UV rays?
The Ozone Layer
How old is Earth?
4.5 billion years old
What global industry produces the most pollution anually?
Fuel and Energy industry
How are bones fossilized?
When an animal is buried by sediment, such as sand or silt, shortly after it dies. Its bones are protected from rotting by layers of sediment. As its body decomposes all the fleshy parts wear away and only the hard parts, like bones, teeth, and horns, are left behind.
What is the largest living structure on Earth?
The Great Barrier Reef
What zone of the atmosphere do planes fly in?
Stratosphere
True or false: The moon has “earthquakes”
True! They happen less frequently and have smaller magnitudes than earthquakes on the Earth
TRUE OR FALSE: Renewable energy provided more than half of the electricity to the US energy grid as of March 2025
TRUE
What is the hardest mineral on Earth?
Diamonds
How does the moon control the tide?
The moons gravitational pull
How are Northern Lights caused?
Why isn’t Earth 100% round?
Earth’s rotation causes the planet to bulge at the equator and flatten at the poles, while the distribution of mass on Earth (which is not perfectly uniform) causes small variations in the gravitational pull at different locations on the planet. These variations are too small to be seen in pictures of Earth from space, so it appears round to the human eye.
How many inches has the ocean risen around the state of Maine?
8 inches
How many terrestrial (land) species are there?
6.5 million
How much of the oxygen we breathe is produced by the oceans?
Around 70%
What are the benifits of having an atmosphere on our planet?
Climate control, protection from the sun, protection from space rocks, protection from space radiation, holds our Oxygen in
How long does it take for sunlight to reach us?
8 minutes and 19 seconds