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Located by the Gulf of Guinea, also known as ‘land nearest to nowhere’

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Cape Three Points

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Mean velocity of Earth

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107,182 - 107,218 km/h

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What does NASA use to protect astronauts and space equipment from radiation?

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Gold

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Why is gold ideal to be used in space?

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It does not rust or corrode

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Located on top of a natural gas field in Turkmenistan, ignited in 1971

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Door to Hell

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Has been discovered to be contributing the most meltwater to Earth’s rising oceans

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Canadian Arctic glacier

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Earth’s largest living structure off the coast of Queensland, Australia

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Great Barrier Reef

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Composed of almost 3,000 smaller reefs, home to diverse marine life

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Biodiversity in the Great Barrier Reef

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World’s Largest Lake by surface area (143,200 square miles)

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Caspian Sea

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Largest rainforest in the world covering 2.2 million square miles

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Amazon

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A landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan, lowest place on Earth’s crust

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Dead Sea

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Elevation of Dead Sea

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1,349 feet below sea level

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Largest volcanic eruption recorded by humans in April 1815

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Mt. Tambora (Indonesia)

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1816, ash from Mt. Tambora eruption blocks out sunlight

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Year Without a Summer

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Coldest place on Earth measured at -148°F (-100°C)

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A frozen ice ridge of the East Antarctic Plateau

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World’s highest waterfall at 3,212 feet

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Angel Falls (Venezuela)

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Volcanic mineral used as a stopwatch to calculate magma storage time

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Spinel

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Largest confirmed stalagmite (220 feet tall)

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Cuevo San Martin Infierno, Cuba

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Largest gold deposit ever recorded (South Africa)

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Witwatersrand Gold Field

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Largest oil deposit (2.855 trillion barrels) in North America

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Piceance and Uinta Basins

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21
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Equatorial circumference of Earth

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24,901 miles (40,075 km)

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Polar circumference of Earth

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24,860 miles (40,008 km)

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Hottest recorded temperature on Earth (El Azizia, Libya)

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136.4°F (September 13, 1992)

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Largest rock on Earth, visible from 100 miles away

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Mount Augustus

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Closest point to space on Earth

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Mount Chimborazo

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Largest exposed fault on Earth

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Banda Detachment Fault

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Rate at which Earth travels through space

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67,000 mph

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Deepest underwater sinkhole (987 feet)

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Dragon Hole

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Oldest mountain range in the world (3.5 billion years old)

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Makhonjwa Mountains

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Fastest moving tectonic plate (24 cm per year)

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Tonga Microplate near Samoa

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Earth’s rotation is slowing by this rate per century

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17 milliseconds

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Driest place on Earth (Chile)

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Atacama Desert

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Prehistoric caldera eruptions in Yellowstone were 1000 times larger than Mount St. Helens

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Yellowstone National Park

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Largest known natural crystals (30 feet long)

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Cave of Crystals (Mexico)

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Boiling river in Peru with temperatures reaching 196°F

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Shanay-Timpishka River

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World’s deepest and largest freshwater lake

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Lake Baikal (Russia)

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The only sea on Earth without a coastline

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Sargasso Sea

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Chinese inventor of the first earthquake detection instrument (132 AD)

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Chang Heng

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World’s largest island (2,175,597 km²)

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Smallest desert on Earth (1 square mile)

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Carcross Desert (Canada)

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Deepest and longest canyon (Tibet-China)

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Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon

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Country with the longest total coastline (202,080 km)

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Speed of Earth’s spin

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Plates being divided by the East African Rift Zone

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Somalian and Nubian Tectonic Plates

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Range of Earth’s axial tilt

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22.1 to 24.5 degrees

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Fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes (408 km/hr)

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Tropical Cyclone Olivia (April 10, 1996)

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Quickest moving plates (10 cm per year)

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Cocos and Nazca Plates

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Same side of the Moon always faces Earth due to

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Synchronous Rotation

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Stormiest lake on Earth (Venezuela)

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Lake Maracaibo

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Flattest country on Earth (average elevation 2.4m)

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Average global temperature increase since 1880

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Driest place in Antarctica

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McMurdo Dry Valley

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Largest glacier on Earth (60 miles wide, 270 miles long)

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Lambert Glacier (Antarctica)

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Astronomers discovered a diamond star in 2004

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Largest cave chamber (1.66 million square feet)

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Sarawak Chamber (Malaysia)

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Deepest cave on Earth (2,212 meters)

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Veryovkina Cave

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Longest mountain chain on Earth (40,389 miles)

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

58
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Percentage of the ocean humans have explored

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Highest plateau on Earth (2,500,000 km²)

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Tibetan Plateau

60
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Largest salt pan of the Sahara Desert (Tunisia, 7,000 km²)

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Chott el Djerid

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