Nature's Wonders: April 2012

Fun Facts about Nature (I post 1 or more fun facts every week!)

Link: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/nature.html

Posted on 23rd June 2011

-A tree can make 172, 000 pencils!

-One pencil can draw a line thirty-five miles long!

Posted on 25th June 2011

-A dollar in the USA can buy 1 tree!

Posted on 4th July 2011

-On average, how much water is used WORLDWIDE each day? Guess what? About 400 BILLION GALLONS.

Posted on 6th July 2011

-Singapore has a population of just over 4 million, and (OH MY!) we end up using... 25 BILLION PLASTIC BAGS each year! Are we plastic bag lovers?

Posted on 19th July 2011

-Giant water lilies in the Amazon can grow up to 6 feet in diameter!

- Although Polar bears have white, fluffy fur, their skin is actually BLACK!

Posted on 22nd July 2011

-Insects DO NOT have noses.

on 23rd July 2011

-The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls actually FROZE solid!

-The water hyacinth has such a dense mass that a person could walk on a floating mat of them from one bank of a river to the other!

Dear Readers, we are really sorry we haven't been posting lots of fun facts... -_-''