About 70 percent of our planet’s surface is covered with water, and it plays an important role in our daily lives. But how did water get on Earth in the first place?
Our planet lies in what is known as the Goldilocks zone, a region surrounding a star that is close enough for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface, with water neither freezing nor evaporating. Many scientists think that being in this zone, and the presence of liquid water, plays ...
Water is so vital to our survival, but strangely enough, we don’t know the first thing about it—literally the first. Where does water, a giver and taker of life on planet Earth, come from? When I was in junior high school, my science teacher taught us about the water cycle—evapora...
How much oxygen is in the Earth's crust? How much oil is in the Permian Basin? How did the Great Artesian Basin form? What is groundwater in the water cycle? How fast does most groundwater move in aquifers? How was the Great Artesian Basin formed?
Going with the belief that water did not exist on Earth or any other planet at the birth of the solar system, it has been speculated that the water must have flown in from the outer reaches of the solar system, riding on comets,asteroidsor meteoroids. Since they had been at such a gr...
Debate Continues over How Water Came to Be on EarthIt is a mystery whether Earth's water formed along with Earth or if it came after Earth formed...Brill, Richard
So, what can you do to save energy and water? –Go on a vampire hunt! Household appliances that are unnecessarily left onstandbyare known as ‘vampire devices‘ as they sneakily suck up lots of electricity! Make sure they’re allturned off at the wall, to stop them wasting power. ...
have argued previously, which is that the term ‘hotspot’ is misleading and that volcanoes that don’t fit the plate tectonic paradigm should rather be referred to as ‘melting anomalies,'” said seismologist Ross Maguire from the University of New Mexico, who did not take part in this ...
How did the Earth's crust form? How is a volcanic island formed? How is the ocean floor formed? How are planetesimals formed? Where did Earth's water come from? How are new sections of the Earth's crust formed? How are geysers formed?
How did you get around when you weren’t going to school? We often went for a family trip by train. Most weekends we went on picnics and I loved playing with my cousins in the park. The trip took much longer than it woul...