May i know some interesting facts based on geography?

Question

May i know some interesting facts based on geography?

Answer 1

Here's a few

- Water always flows downhill

- The earths major desert regions are found around 30º latitude and 60º latitude

- All oceans are interconnected

- Trenches and mountains indicate major plate boundaries

- Tropical Rainforests occur below 30º latitude

- Landmasses that have a larger N/S extent tend to have greater biome diversity comparatively speaking

- About 90% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

- All the people in the world standing shoulder to shoulder would fit in the province of Alberta

- If the earth did not spin there would be one big convection cell

- About two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.

- Florida and Hudson Bay in Canada are getting about 1 inch closer every 36 years

- Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.

- Hudson Bay is the largest bay in the world, (larger than England) bordering only one country Canada, and only two provinces and a territory.

- The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean

- If the world's total land area was divided equally among the world's people, each person would get 8.5 acres

- Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

-pph

Answer 2

applause for peter pumpkin heads answer

Answer 3

101 Facts about our planet.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/10...

Answer 4

West Virginia is the only US state without a natural lake

Swiss citizens are required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to one.

these camer from the following site:

http://www.jayp.net/trivia/geo01.htm