Acid rain is additionally referred to as acid deposition or acid precipitation. Acid rain is mainly a result of air pollution. It includes any kind of precipitation that contains a high amount of nitric or sulfuric acid. The precipitates are not necessarily to be wet or liquid; they can be dry or … Read more
There are many bodies of water in our planet, wherein its surface takes up 71 percent of water, and among these bodies of water, includes the river. Rivers are usually long watercourses, flowing with fresh water towards oceans, seas, lakes, as well as another river. There are plenty of rivers all around … Read more
The light during the daytime on Earth is almost all brought by the Sun. The stars are always shining, of course, as they do all the time in the vast regions of space, but they are so far away that the light that all of them produce together counts for almost nothing … Read more
The Earth consists of multiple layers of metallic and rocky materials. Beneath the thick layers of lighter rock near the top or the surface is heavier rock. Under the heavy rock, there are rocks that contain metal, and the amount of metal that makes up these rocks is increasing the more you … Read more
Even before a famous explorer circumnavigated the world or humans started going into space, the ancient Greeks had known that our planet is round and not flat. It was Pythagoras who raised the idea of the spherical world in 500 BC. But, it was around 2,000 years ago when Aristotle, the famous … Read more
Passed on to children are the many amusing stories about rainbows, from what’s on the other side, to it having a pot of gold in the end or to it causing one’s finger cut off if pointed to, to it actually being a circle rather than an arch, to having a rainbow … Read more
Our planet is suspended in space, which means that its weight would differ in different gravitational fields. For example, in Earth’s gravitational field some object weighs, say, 1 kilogram, but the same object on the Moon (i.e. in the Moon’s gravitational field) would weigh 1/6 of its weight on the Earth. That … Read more
Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest nonpolar desert on the planet. It is in the northern part of the country and spans roughly 600 to 700 miles or 1,000 to 1,100 kilometers from north to south. While its limits are not exactly defined, it lies mainly between the Andes Mountains and the … Read more