Earth Facts

The Earth is full of endless interesting facts. Here’s the current list that we have developed. Expect more amazing facts to come! 

• 11% of the Earth’s surface is used to grow food.
• For every 100 meters down into the Earth, the temperature gets 3 degrees hotter.
• The average depth of Earth’s oceans are 2 miles deep.
• The wind carries 100 million tons of sand particles around the Earth yearly.
• 70-71% of the Earth is covered by water.
• A thousand tons of meteor dust falls to Earth every day.
• Mount Everest (8850 meters or 29035ft) is the tallest mountain in the world.
• It takes sun light 8 minutes and 3 seconds to reach Earth.
• The coldest temperatue ever recorded was -129 degrees Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antartica in 1983.
• Only 3% of the water on our planet is fresh water.  Of the 3%, 2% of it is frozen in glaciers and ice sheets around the poles.  The other 97% is salt water.
• The lowest dry point on Earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East which is 1300 feet below sea level.
• The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world. It covers about 1/3 of the Earth’s surface.
• The Earth is the densest major body in our solar system.
• Baikal Lake in Russian Fed. is the deepest lake in the world at 5315 feet.
• The most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is aluminum.
• It snowed in the Sahara Desert on February 18th, 1979.
• On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
• 200 million years ago Earth contained only one land mass called Pangea.
• The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
• Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
• Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman.
• Worldwide each day 400 billion gallons of water is used.