Eleven per cent of the Earth’s surface is used to grow food.
For every 100 metres down into the Earth, the temperature gets three degrees hotter.
The wind carries 100 million tonnes of sand particles around the Earth yearly.
Only three per cent of the water on our planet is fresh water. Of the 3 per cent, two per cent of it is frozen in glaciers and ice sheets around the poles. The other 97 per cent is salt water.
About 70-71per cent of the Earth is covered by water.
Sunlight takes eight minutes and three seconds to reach Earth.
The coldest temperature ever recorded was -129 degrees Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antartica in 1983.
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 most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is aluminium.
Worldwide, 400 billion gallons of water is used each day.
The difference between average global temperatures today and during those ice ages is only about five degrees Celsius (nine degrees Fahrenheit).
While less than one-third of the world’s population lived in cities in 1950, about two thirds of humanity is expected to live in urban areas by 2030.
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