Amazing Facts of Earth

1-  The moon is one million time drier than the Gobi Desert.

Moon Surface

2- From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets, this is because sun light is reflected by the planets water.

Earth

3- The world's deadliest recorded earth quake occurred in 1557 in central china 830,000 people were killed.

Historical Earth quake

4- Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, remaining 97% is salted.

5- The Angel Water Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest Water falls (979 meters), three times the size of Eiffel Tower.

Angel Water Falls

6- Only 11% of the earth surface is used to grow food.

7- About 70% of the worlds fresh water is stored as glacial ice.

Glacial Ice

8- About 20 to 30 Volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under sea.

Volcano Under sea

9- The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches at 35.6 degrees centigrade.

Warmest Sea

10- Birth rate of Hong Kong is low(7.89/1000) and Niger is highest(50.73/1000).