Amazing facts for students in Geography
What every student should know in Geography
Planets can be categorized based on their composition. These include:
1. Terrestrial or Rocky Planets: They are mercury, venus, earth and mars. They are called terrestrial or rocky planets for the following reasons:
They have a rocky and compact surface.
They have no rings around them.
They have a few natural satellites.
They rotate slowly around their axis.
2. Gas or Jovian Planets: They include jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune. They have the following features:
They are called jovian planets because they are bigger in size when compared to earth.
They are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium gas, hence the name 'gas planets' or 'gas giants'.
They rotate rapidly.
They have many satellites.
They have rings around them.
The following rules are required for a body to become classified (or regarded) as a planet:
It must orbit the sun.
It does not orbit another planet. This means that it must not be a satellite.
It must have sufficient mass which accounts for its self-gravity.
It must assume a nearly round shape.
Only 2 countries have the color purple in their national flag. Both countries are:
Nicaragua and Dominica
With 221,800 islands, Sweden is believed to have more islands than any other country in the world.
The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes
Australia is both a country and continent. Also, it has the highest number of reptiles in the world. (Over 750 different species of reptiles)
Earth is the only planet that contains water on it's surface. Infact, earth comprises of more water than land
Water: 71%
Land: 21%
Salt water or Saline water makes up about 97% of earth's water. It comprises majorly of ocean and sea waters
Metal rains on planet Venus
Planet Mars appear brownish or reddish because it's covered with iron rust
China is the largest emitter of carbon IV oxide (CO2) in our world today
There are over 125 billion galaxies in our universe. Our galaxy (milky way) has about 100-400 billion stars.
Understand that the sun is actually a star; and a single star can be 100 times bigger than the earth.
It is estimated that 50% of all gold ever mined on earth came from South Africa.
Infact, it came from a single plateau in South Africa called Witwatersrand
We have 7 continents. All the 7 continents ends with the alphabet that began it. The continents are:
Asia
Africa
Antartica
Australia
Europe
North America
South America
Instabul is a city in Turkey. It's the only city that lies between two continents.
Instabul lies between Europe and Asia
It is believed that the amazon rainforest is responsible for producing about 20% of earth's oxygen.
The earth is spherical in shape and we live on its surface. The middle part of the earth or (center of the earth) is actually hotter than the sun
There are actually three countries in the world that are present inside another country. These are:
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