FACTS ABOUT OUR PLANET
Added on: 23rd Jun 2015
EVENTUALLY, OUR MAGNETIC POLES
WILL SWITCH.
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE EARTH MAY HAVE HAD TWO MOONS
AT ONE POINT IN TIME.
SOME SCIENTISTS CLAIM WE STILL HAVE TWO MOONS…
IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING. EVERY NOW AND THEN AN
ASTEROID WILL GET SUCKED INTO EARTH'S ORBIT AND
STICK AROUND FOR UP TO 9 MONTHS.
ALTHOUGH EARTHQUAKES ARE NO FUN, THEY ARE NOT
THE ONLY QUAKES THAT AFFECT THE EARTH. MOON QUAKES
CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE TIDES.
AS COOL AS MOON ROCKS ARE, ON EARTH ROCKS CAN
WALK. OR AT LEAST SLIDE. IN DEATH VALLEY ROCKS
WEIGHING HUNDREDS OF POUNDS SLIDE ACROSS THE
DESERT FLOOR LEAVING TRAILS IN THEIR WAKE.
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE WIND AND ICE ARE THE CULPRITS.
THE LONGEST MOUNTAIN RANGE ON EARTH IS ACTUALLY
UNDERWATER. IT IS CALLED THE MID OCEAN RIDGE SYSTEM.
IT STRETCHES FOR 80,000 KM ALL AROUND THE WORLD AND
IS NEARLY 20 TIMES LONGER THAN THE LONGEST RANGE ON
THE SURFACE, THE ANDES MOUNTAINS. NOT ONLY THAT,
THE WHOLE THING IS COMPLETELY VOLCANIC.
ON THE TOPIC OF VOLCANOS, THE MOST ACTIVE ERUPTER
ON EARTH IS ACTUALLY THE STROMBOLI VOLCANO IN
SOUTHERN ITALY. FOR THE PAST 2,000 YEARS IT HAS BEEN
ERUPTING ALMOST CONTINOUSLY WHICH HAS EARNED IT
THE NICKNAME "LIGHTHOUSE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.
VOLCANOS AREN'T THE ONLY THINGS THAT EXPLODE GAS
AND MAGMA. LAKES DO THAT TOO. IN AFRICA, ON THE
BORDERS OF CAMEROON, RWANDA, AND THE DEMOCRACTIC
REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO THERE ARE SEVERAL LAKES THAT
SIT ABOVE VOLCANIC EARTH WHICH RESULTS IN LARGE
POCKETS OF DANGEROUS GAS BEING TRAPPED BENEATH THEM.
IF THEY WERE TO EXPLODE THEY WOULD ASPHYXIATE ANY
PASSERSBY.
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