Rivers are known for their long, meandering flows, but not all rivers run great distances. In fact, Montana's Roe River flows for a mere 201 feet (61 …
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Water covers about 71 percent of Earth's surface, but do you know the difference between an ocean and a sea? And which ocean is the smallest?
All the world's existing continents have a combined surface area of about 57 million square miles (148 million square kilometers). The Pacific Ocean …
It's not often we add a new geographical feature to the map of the world. For the past century, we've impressed upon our grade-schoolers that there …
There's a whole lot of water on Earth! Something like 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (that's 326 million trillion gallons) of the stuff (roughly …
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