Largest Continent: Asia, 17,212,000 square miles Smallest Continent: Australia, 3,132,000 square miles Highest Mountain: Mount Everest, Himalayan Mountains, Nepal…
The Indian Ocean tsunami that occured in December 2004 was the deadliest in history by Borgna Brunner Before and after satellite images of Banda Aceh, North Sumatra, Indonesia.…
(Encyclopedia) Leiter, SaulLeiter, Saullītˈər [key], 1923–2013, American photographer, b. Pittsburgh. A painter in the early 1940s, Leiter switched to photography late in the decade. Along with…
WHERE DO CRUSTACEANS LIVE? WHAT DO CRUSTACEANS EAT? ARE BABY CRUSTACEANS LIKE THE ADULTS? CRUSTACEAN CLASSIFICATIONKRILLFIND OUT MOREThese invertebrates include crabs, barnacles, KRILL, and…
FRACTURED CRUST PLATE BOUNDARIES SUPERCONTINENT SEA-FLOOR SPREADING FIND OUT MORE
Scientists believe that the Earth’s outer crust is made up of about huge fragments, called tectonic…
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Schematic model of the oceanic crust, showing seafloor spreading
seafloor spreading, theory of lithospheric evolution that holds that the ocean floors are spreading outward…
(Encyclopedia) sea, term used as synonymous with ocean, or a subdivision of an ocean (Caribbean Sea, Yellow Sea), or erroneously designating a large salt lake (Caspian Sea, Dead Sea, Aral Sea).
FACTFILE: PHYSICAL WORLDFIND OUT MOREDespite its being called “Earth,” more than two-thirds of our planet’s surface is covered in water. The rest consists of seven vast expanses of land called…
Millions of years from now, Los Angeles will be close to Alaska. Our world is moving constantly, spinning at a rate of 1,000 miles per hour. We are whirling around the sun at 20 miles per second.…
