Geographical Facts
There are 32 Geographical Facts
- 10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
- A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
- Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
- Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
- Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
- Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
- Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
- Europe is the only continent without a desert.
- Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.
- Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
- Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
- If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
- In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
- Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
- It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
- Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
- Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!
- More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
- One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
- The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
- The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
- The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
- The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
- The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
- The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
- The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!
- The state of Florida is bigger than England!
- The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
- The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
- There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
