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Weather Space
Humans
Quiz
Jokes
Animals
Insects
Ocean Animals
Polar Bears
Dogs
Did you know…
Ants never sleep!
Ants can carry over 50 times
their own body weight with
their mouths!
The biggest spider in the
world lives in South America
and eats birds.A butterfly has to have a body temperature
greater than 86 degrees to be able to
fly.
An oyster can change it’s gender!If a lobster loses a eye or
a claw, it can grow a new
one!
A starfish can turn it’s stomach inside out!
Australia’s box jellyfish has toxins more
potent than the venom in cobras. A
person who is stung can die within
minutes.
Did you know…
Polar bears can eat as
much as 10% of their body
weight in less one hour!
Polar bears can
smell seals who are
20 miles away!
When a polar bear cub
is born, it cannot see or
hear. It takes about one
month for the cub to
gain those senses!
If you spray an
antiseptic on a polar
bear, it’s fur will tu
rn
purple!
Did you know…
Bloodhounds have been
used since the 1600’s for
tracking criminals!
The Basenji is the only dog
that can’t bark!
There is a doggie disco every year in Italy where owners can dance with their dogs!
Neptune & Pluto
10th Planet?Jupiter
Venus
Astronauts
Did you know…Sometimes, Neptune and Pluto change
making Neptune the farthest away from the sun for a few years!
One Neptune year equals 165 Earth years!
Pluto is the only planet that has not been visited by a
spacecraft!
Neptune was the first
planet to be
discovered by
mathematicians!
Scientists have argued
for years over whether
to even consider Pluto a planet!
This new planet is almost
10 billion miles from the sun!
It was announced in July 2005!
UB313
Sun
Artist depiction
2003 UB313 has a moon that orbits
the planet!
Name: 2003 UB313
Did you know…Did you know…The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a
hurricane-like storm system. It is large enough that two Earths could fit across it!
A Jupiter day is only about 10 hours long.
Jupiter has the
shortest day of any planet in the Solar System!The most
volcanically active
body in the solar
system besides
the Earth is
Jupiter's moon Io!
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the
largest moon in the Solar System and is
larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto!
Did you know…Did you know…
The atmospheric pressure
you would experience on the
surface of Venus is about the
same as diving 3000 feet in
the oceans! That is about 90
times the pressure at the
Earth's surface!
A Venus day is
approximately
243 Earth days long!
All of the major features on Venus are named after
famous women in history and
mythology!
Venus is almost the same size as Earth and is covered in deadly poisonous clouds!
Did you know…Story Musgrave is the
only astronaut to
have flown into space
on board all five Space Shuttles,
including Challenger!
The first American to eat
food in space was Scott
Carpenter aboard the
Mercury spacecraft
Aurora 7 in 1962
Ron Evans, pilot of Apollo 17,
circled the moon alone while his
fellow astronauts went to the
surface. This makes him the
last astronaut to fly in space
alone in a spacecraft!
Take a weird astronaut facts quiz and see if you can be fooled!
Astronauts sleep in sleeping bags attached to the
wall!
Even though lightening bolts are hot, the sun is still hotter!
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop!
Starfish never sleep?!?
There are now 10 planets?!?
A mushroom walked into a bar. The bar tender said, "Get out of here! We don't serve your kind." "Hey, what's the problem?" "Just get out of here. We don't serve mushrooms." The mushroom in anguish says, "Why not? I'm a fun guy."
Q: What's the most important thing to learn in chemistry?
A: Never lick the spoon.
Q: What is a tornado's favorite game? A: Twister!
Teacher: What is the formula for water? Student: H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O Teacher: That's not what I taught you. Student: But you said the formula for water was...H to O.
Q. What do you do when you find a dead chemist?
A. Barium.
Q. What is the purpose of a doctor?
A. Helium
Q: What kind of materials do dinosaurs use for the floor of their homes? A: Rep Tiles
Q: What's as big as a dinosaur but weighs nothing?
A: Her shadow!
Q: How do you ask a dinosaur to lunch? A: Tea Rex?
Q: What do you call it when it rains chickens and ducks? A: Foul (fowl) weather.
Q:What is horsepower? A:The power it takes to drag a horse a given distance in a given amount of time.
Q: What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?
A: "You may have graduated but I've got many degrees"
Q: What did the Nuclear Physicist have for lunch? A: Fission Chips.
No two snowflakes
look the same
Snowflakes come
from clouds, which
are really just big
clusters of water
vapor.
An average raindrop falls
600 feet per minute
while the average
snowflake falls at about
11 feet per minute.
In a five-month span between
1987 and 1988, small pink frogs
rained from the sky over parts of
Great Britain.
All sorts of animals and plants
have showered down during
thunderstorms.
There have also been rains of blood which have been reported all over the world ever since biblical times.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute.
Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun (about 50,000 ºF, 27,760 ºC).
In 1859, a shower of fish fell from the sky in
Glamorgan, Wales. The fish covered an
area the size of three tennis courts.
A hurricane has a calm 'eye' in the centre, because no matter how strong the rotating winds are around the centre, there must always be a point where there is no wind at all.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all
of the world's nuclear
weapons combined.
All hurric
anes are born
over water, a
nd their
life span is about 10
days.
About 1,500 volcanoes are
located on the ground with
10,000 located in the sea.
Most volcanoes
are between
10,000 and
100,000 years old.
Visit http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/movies/movie.html to see real volcano videos!
About 40 volcanoes in the continental USA
have had activity
within the last 10
years.
The most frequent month for a tornado to
occur in the United States is in May.
The width of a tornado can range from less
than ten yards to more than a mile.
In 1964, an earthquake hit Prince William Sound in Alaska. It was so strong that people in Hawaii could feel the aftershock.
Seconds before a quake, dogs and cats
might act up, as they seem to be able to feel
the trembling before we do.
Thousands of quakes occur across
the US each year, but almost all of
them are too small to feel.
The Heart
The Head
The Nose
The Stomach
The Mouth
Skin
The Eyes
Everything
Bones
The human heart
creates enough
pressure to squirt
blood 30 ft
Your heart beats
37,000,000
times in a year.
During your life
it will beat two
and a half billion
times
According to German researchers, the risk
of heart attack is higher on Monday
than any other day of the week.
The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Every single day you lose as many as 100 strands of hair, which is about 36,500 per year.
85% of your brain is water.
Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
Your brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day.
The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
A sneeze can blast out of your nose at speeds greater than 100 mph
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop - even your heart
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The tooth is the only part of
the human body that can’t
repair itself
If saliva can not dissolve something, you can not taste it
It takes 17 muscles to
smile and 43 to frown
When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dialate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
You blink about 84 million times a year.
The human body can survive lo
nger
without fo
od than with
out sleep.
While starvatio
n takes a
few weeks,
a person would die afte
r 10 days
without s
leep
It takes food seven
seconds to go from the
mouth to the stomach
via the esophagus
The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades
Babies are born with
300 bones, but by
adulthood we only have
206 in our bodies.
Babies are born without
knee caps. They
don’t appear until
they are 2 - 6 years
old
Every square inch of your body is populated by about 32 million bacteria
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds per year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin
In a hot climate, you can sweat as much as 3 gallons of water a day
A team of medical experts in Virginia contend that you’re more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing
A simple, moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels to such an extent that it takes four to fifteen months for them to return to their normal condition
People have legs of slightly different lengths
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime
Laughing lowers the levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day, while adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day The left lung is smaller than the
right lung to make room for the heart
The fastest human swimmer can
swim at 6 miles per hour. The
fastest mammal - the dolphin - can
swim up to 35 miles per hour!
Fish talk to each other! Some of them communicate by making
noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim
bladders to make sounds!
A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew yet
its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a
steel nail!
Did you know that you are more
likely to be killed by a cork fly
ing
out of a bottle than by a poiso
nous
spider?
The flea can jump 350
times its body length, that
is like a human jumping
the length of a football field!
Butterfl
ies ta
ste w
ith
their fe
et!