https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k Made by Steven Louw en-us 2017-10-31 07:35:42 UTC 2025-09-30 12:35:56 UTC hello@padlet.com 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/202024828 2017-10-31 07:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/202024828 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/202025086 2017-10-31 07:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/202025086 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/202025773 2017-10-31 07:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/202025773 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203099069 2017-11-02 19:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203099069 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203100046 The planet has a waistline
Mother Earth has a generous waistline: At the equator, the circumference of the globe is 24,901 miles (40,075 kilometres). Bonus fact: At the equator, you would weigh less than if standing at one of the poles.]]> 2017-11-02 19:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203100046 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203100984    Earth is on the move
You may feel like you're standing still, but you're actually moving 1000 miles fast. Depending on where you are on the globe, you could be spinning through space at just over 1,000 miles per hour. People on the equator move the fastest, while someone standing on the North or South pole would be perfectly still. Imagine a basketball spinning on your finger. A random point on the ball's equator has farther to go in a single spin as a point near your finger. The point on the equator is moving faster. The photo shown here is a true-colour image taken on May 5, 2000, by an instrument aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft, over the North Pole. ith sea ice shown in white and open water in black.]]> 2017-11-02 19:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203100984 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203102017 The planet moves around the sun, and the Earth isn't just spinning: It's also moving around the sun at 67,000 miles (107,826 km) per hour.]]> 2017-11-02 19:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203102017 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203103625 The planet is recycled.
The ground you're walking on is recycled. Earth's rock cycle transforms igneous rocks to sedimentary rocks to metamorphic rocks and back again. Sedimentary rocks can be re-eroded or metamorphic rocks re-uplifted. But if metamorphic rocks get caught in a subduction zone where one piece of crust is pushing under another, they may find themselves transformed back into magma.]]> 2017-11-02 20:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203103625 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203105313 2017-11-02 20:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203105313 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203107002 Our moon has earthquakes
Earth's moon looks rather dead and inactive. But in fact, moonquakes, or earthquake, keep things just a bit shook up. Quakes on the moon are less common and less intense than those that shake.
According to USGS scientists, moonquakes seem to be related to tidal stresses associated with the varying distance between the Earth and moon. Moonquakes also tend to happen, about midway between the lunar surface and its canter.]]> 2017-11-02 20:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203107002 1mlouste https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203109790 2017-11-02 20:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1mlouste/pxwb8q6fpg2k/wish/203109790