Wetlands & Ecological Assessments

A freshwater lake the size of Lake Ontario is hidden under nearly 2.5 miles of ice in Antarctica

Crocodiles sometimes climb trees (Florida has both Crocodiles and Alligators)

Beach sand has a melting point of 3000 F

More than 100 miles of mining tunnels exist under Detroit, Michigan.

The Amazon rain forest is about twice the size of India.

Light travels 900,000 times faster than sound.

One acre of soil can have more than a million worms living in it.

Spring moves 100 feet per day northward and 10 feet per day up a mountain.

If the dormant super volcano in Yellowstone National Park ever erupted, it would likely spew enough ash to cover all of North America.

Louisiana is home to over 500,000 wild pigs.

Tortoises can crawl about one mile an hour.

The longest living organisms on Earth are trees

Hummingbirds flap their wings up to 80 times a second.

The Pacific Ocean has more water than all other seas and oceans combined.

All of the earth’s land could fit in the Pacific Ocean

Over 20% of all fresh water on the planet is in a lake in Siberia, Lake Baikal

Hummingbirds visit more than 1,000 flowers every day to keep themselves fed.

Jellyfish can sting you even when they are dead.

Osprey birds build nests big enough to fit an adult human inside

Each year winds blow about 40 million tons of dust from Africa’s Sahara to the Amazon River basin.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is roughly the size of Italy.