The Water & The Land

May 16, 2024

The Water & The Land

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Hello future scientists, I am your Uncle Globe, again back with a bunch of new interesting informations. Today we are gonna learn about a little bit of myself, The Earth.

You all have read in school that me, the earth, is packed with water, means I have 75% water and only 25% of land. And I am sure that you have also heard about the opposite argument of this 75-25 fact which is “there is also land under the water or sea”. You see, it is a valid argument because if you separate all the water from me and make a giant ball, you will see that the diameter of that water ball is 1385km, which is almost 3x smaller than the Moon. So my friends, you can easily say that the earth has more land than the water.

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If you take the same logic then you will find another shocking fact that, Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain on me. Because with the same logic you can’t count on the sea level, so you have to count the height of a mountain from it’s base, and from base the mountain named Mouna Kea is taller than the mount Everest with the height of 10200m, where from the base mount Everest is only 5200m. It’s because most part of Mouna Kea is under the sea. It is an island mountain. Even from the base the African mountain Kilimanjaro is also taller than the Everest, with the height of 5600m.

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But, do you know the Everest have a chance to be the tallest mountain even from the base? because the Mount Everest is a Fragile Mountain and it’s growing taller day by day. But the rate of growing is so slow that it will take Everest 1250000 years to match the same height as Mouna Kea. I know that you are surprised to see that the mountains can move sometimes, but do you know that even our poles are not stable, they are moving. Yes! You heard it right. Our North Pole and South Pole are moving aside. It is recorded that, from 19^th century the poles have changed their positions around 685 miles away till now, this is called the Migration of Poles.