Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth. An earthquake is the ground shaking caused by a sudden slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth’s outer layer push the sides of the fault together. Stress builds up and the rocks slips suddenly, releasing energy in waves that travel through the earth’s crust and cause […]
Day: May 19, 2015
The Earth
The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.Earth, also called the world and, less frequently, Gaia is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to accommodate […]
Heart beats over 100,000 times a day
Our heart beats over 100,000 times a day.Your heart beats 100,000 times a day, 36,500,000 times a year. That’s over 1 billion heart beats if you live past the age of 30! Over the course of the expected lifetime, your heart will beat about 2.5 billion times! The right side of your heart pumps blood […]
Butterflies taste
Butterflies taste with their feet. Butterflies taste with their feet as their taste sensors are located there. They can taste it by just standing on their food. They don’t have mouths that allow them to bite or chew, instead they have a long straw-like structure called a proboscis which they use to drink nectar and […]
21-inch tongue!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
Owls can see the color blue
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.Owls are actually able to see the color blue just fine and in fact some birds can see ultraviolet colors which even humans cannot see.