THE EXTREMES OF NATURE
• The largest living thing - Gaint sequoias and California redwoods about 300ft tall and about 100ft in circumference.
• Tiniest living thing - Microorganisms ranging from few nanometers to micrometers
• Largest mammal - Blue whale about 98ft long
• Smallest mammal - Shrews or Bumblebee bat that barely make an inch in length.
• Largest bird - Ostrich
Largest flying bird - Andean condor of the west of South America with wingspan of about 10ft
• Smallest bird - Humming bird of Cuba measuring between 2 to 2.5 inch long from beak to tail
• Largest fish - Whale shark about 42ft long
• Smallest fish - Paedocypris progenetica from Indonesia just one-third of an inch long
• Largest reptile - Salt water crocodiles between 13 to 18ft long
• Smallest reptile - A leaf chameleon a little less than 30mm from nose to tail
• Largest insect - Gaint weta , a species of dragonfly about 10cm long
• Smallest insect - Fairy flies measuring 0.5mm at average
• Fastest animal
On land - Cheetah at 120.7km/h
In water - Sailfish at 110km/h
In air - Peregrine falcon at 389km/h
• Slowest animal
On land - Three-toed sloth at 0.003mile/h .
In water - Sea horse at 0.01 mile/h
In air - American woodcock at 8km/h
• Most venomous/poisonous
Animal - Box jellyfish
Snake - King Cobra
Fish - Stonefish
• Largest egg (shelled) - Whale shark's egg about 12 inches long
• Smallest egg (shelled) - Vervian Humming bird's egg less than 10mm in length
• Biggest cell - An ostrich's egg about 15cm in diameter and is equivalent to about 2 dozens of chicken eggs
• Highest point on Earth - Mount Everest peak 29,035 ft above sea level
• Lowest point - Challenger deep in Mariana trench in the Pacific ocean 36,207 ft under the Earth surface
• Largest water body - Pacific ocean about one-third of the earth's surface
• Largest land mass - Asia (continent)
• Largest forest - Russian Boreal forest as larger than the size of China and India together
• Largest river - Amazon river
• Hottest region on Earth - Lut desert in Eastern Iran , 70.7•c was recorded
• Coldest region - East Antarctic plateau in Antarctica , -92•c was recorded
• Hardest material
Natural - Diamond and
Ionsdaleite (from meteorite)
Synthetic - Wurtzite boron nitride
Ionsdaleite and Wurtzite boron nitride are harder than diamond
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References :
https://www.google.com/search?q=hardest%20substance%20on%20earth&hl=en-US&gws_rd=ssl
https://www.google.com/search?q=largest%20forest%20in%20the%20world&hl=en-US&gws_rd=ssl
https://www.google.com/search?q=largest%20forest%20in%20the%20world&hl=en-US&gws_rd=ssl
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