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.