Environment

Many different types of animals live in social groups.

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The Earth is 119.6 million kilometers from the Sun.

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The Mohorovičić discontinuity, also known simply as just the Moho lies between the crust and the mantle of the earth.

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The Mediterranean type of climate prevails in the lands around the Mediterranean Sea as well as in some other parts of the world.

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Five species of monotremes exist, including four species of echidnas and the duck-billed platypus.

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The Gloydius himalayanus or the Himalayan pit viper is the world's highest living snake found living at altitudes of up to 16,072 feet in the Himalayas.

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The Armstrong Limit is an altitude beyond which nobody can survive. It is the altitude that produces an atmospheric pressure so low (6.3 kPa) that water boils at the normal temperature of the human body.

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Cover crop is planted in the agricultural field to serve a variety of purposes including the protection of the soil against erosion, weeds, and pests.

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Vampire bats, the male duck-billed platypus, hedgehogs, moles, skunks, shrews, and solenodons are some of the venomous species of mammals living in the world today.

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A rapidly rotating column of air that spins while in contact with the Earth's surface below and a cumulonimbus cloud above, are called tornadoes or twisters.

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A minor planet is a term that refers to celestial objects that are neither a planet or a comet. One example of this is asteroids.

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Despite its definite risk, nuclear energy still has the safest track record of any energy type.

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Studies have been done to try to determine the cause of the drought in California which occurred in the 2010s.

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There are 17 different species of hedgehogs.

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The effects that human beings have on the environment is referred to as the anthropogenic effect.

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Green grasshoppers and brown locusts are close relatives of one another.

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In most cases, the production of plastic begins at an oil refinery.

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The summer solstice is also known is midsummer. It occurs when the axis of the planet is closer to that of its star - which, in the case of the Earth, is the sun.

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The winter solstice, also known as midwinter, is the day with the shortest period of light.

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With an area of 348,750 square km, the Great Victoria Desert is Australia's largest desert.

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