Earth

How much water is on earth?

Water is the most important substance on the earth required by all the living organisms whether human beings, plants or animals. We cannot imagine life on earth without water. 72% of the earth surface is occupied by the water bodies. It approximately 336,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons which […]

How old is earth?

From different researches and evidences the age of earth is approximately 4.55 billion years. Some of the sedimentary rocks found in North America, Africa, Asia, Greenland and Australia are nearly 3.8 billion years old and gave minerals that are of nearly 4.2 billion years. But […]

How are valleys formed?

Valleys are depressions in the earth’s crust resulting from platonic movement of other natural factors. Depending on the formation and the shape of the depression, valleys are classified into different categories. Geological structures like ravines, canyons, gullies, kloofs and canyons may also be referred as […]

Why does earth rotate?

It is believed that the earth is made up of cloud of gas and dust particles called nebula that collapses under its own gravity and started spinning. When this cloud and dust particle condensed they remained in rotation and the rotation is speeded up when […]

Why is earth round?

It is believed that earth is formed four and a half billion years ago from a huge mass of gas. A force pulls everything with the same power from the centre which is called gravitational force and this force is almost equal at every place […]