Top 10 Amazing Earth Facts. Our World As well known and well traveled as our planet is, there are still new things being discovered every day.
In fact, most of our oceans haven’t even been explored yet which is why when new depths are located; they often come with hundreds of new species. Rain forests offer up new animals and plants as often as we can explore them. The Earth is constantly changing, shifting, and exposing new secrets for humans to marvel at.
It took many years and many great minds to solve the problem of getting through Earth’s atmosphere into the wide expanse of space beyond. 10 More Amazing Weather Phenomena. Our World As a follow up to Cedestras brilliant list of 20 amazing and unusual weather phenomena, I have decided to make a list with 10 more items.
Our atmosphere shows off so many strange and wonderful displays, but often times these brilliant phenomena happen so rarely, and in places all over the world (insert lame ‘once in a blue moon’ pun here). 10 More Amazing Wonders of the Natural World. Our World On our previous list, Top 10 Amazing Natural Wonders, we covered a variety of amazing places.
With this list we are showing some more amazing wonders which are less about places and more about formations and events. Be sure to add your own favorites to the comments for all to enjoy – preferably with links to images. Top 10 Unusual Islands. Our World This is a list of islands that are somehow unusual or notable.
The ranking from ten to one is somewhat arbitrary, in my opinion, since each island is unique in its own way and ratings can’t really apply (it would be kind of like asking which piece of music is better, “Stairway to Heaven” or “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”). So this one is really more like a grocery list than a “countdown from ten to one” list. 10 Strange Things About The Universe.
Space The universe can be a very strange place.
While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around. Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ? 273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. Deepest Cave, Call of the Abyss. Top 10 Amazing Earth Facts. Nemesis (hypothetical star) More recent theories suggest that other forces, like close passings of other stars, or the angular effect of the galactic gravity plane working against the outer solar orbital plane, may be the cause of orbital perturbations of some outer Solar System objects.[6] In 2011, Coryn Bailer-Jones did an analysis of craters on the surface of the Earth and reached the conclusion that the earlier findings of simple periodic patterns (implying periodic comet showers dislodged by a hypothetical Nemesis star) to be statistical artifacts, and found that the crater record shows no evidence for Nemesis.[7] However, in 2010, A.L.
Melott and R.K. Bambach found evidence in the fossil record confirming the extinction event periodicity originally claimed by Raup & Sepkoski in 1984, but at a higher confidence level and over a time period nearly twice as long.[8] The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) failed to discover Nemesis in the 1980s. Top 10 Plants That Will Kill You. Our World Ok, I know I wasn’t supposed to do any more plant lists, but I couldn’t help myself.
By killer plants I do not mean as in Top 10 Carnivorous Plants, plants that kill little insects, and the occasional rat, but plants that are well known to kill people. All plants contain some toxins as protection against predators. We already know, from Top 10 Poisonous foods we love to eat, that even apple seeds contain traces of cyanide.
In this list we are going to look at some plants that contain such high doses, of toxins to which humans are sensitive, that some can kill you in a matter of hours. White snake root, also known as White Sanicle or Tall Boneset, is a highly poisonous plant, native to North America. Doll’s eye, also known as White Baneberry, is a flowering plant native to Eastern and Northern North America. Angel’s trumpets are flowering plants, native to the tropical regions of South America, but found around the world. Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Your online source - How Are Volcanoes Formed. Solar Eclipses for Beginners. Introduction What is an eclipse of the Sun?
What causes eclipses and why? How often do eclipses happen and when is the next eclipse of the Sun? You'll learn the answers to these questions and more in MrEclipse's primer on solar eclipses. The Motion In The Ocean: How Waves Are Formed. 8(r) Ocean Tides. Introduction An ocean tide refers to the cyclic rise and fall of seawater.
Tides are caused by slight variations in gravitational attraction between the Earth and the moon and the Sun in geometric relationship with locations on the Earth's surface.
Top 10 Amazing Holes In The Earth. Our World In man’s search for mineral wealth, many enormous holes have been dug.
In addition, nature occasionally produces some astounding holes. This list is a pick of the ten most spectacular natural or manmade holes in the face of the earth. Many thanks to rushfan for sending in the images for this list. Click the images for a larger view. Chuquicamata is an open pit copper mine in Chile. The Udachnaya Pipe is a diamond mine in Russia. In 2007, a 300 foot deep sinkhole swallowed a dozen homes in Guatemala – killing 2 and causing thousands to be evacuated.